Lead soap

an insoluble, white, pliable soap made by saponifying an oil (olive oil) with lead oxide; - used externally in medicine. Called also lead plaster, diachylon, etc.

See also: Soap

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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