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countable and uncountable, plural sandsoaps
A kind of soap with embedded grains of sand, giving it a coarse, gritty texture, and used for exfoliation or for scrubbing residue from smooth surfaces such as pots and pans. quotations examples
He filled a basin with water, and, with an old brush and piece of sandsoap, attacked the stove.
1922, Joseph Hergesheimer, Mountain Blood
Pa and the two children washed and polished all the windows, and Henry scrubbed B. Singlet's sign with sandsoap and a brush.
1988, Mary Steele, Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds, Ringwood: Puffin Books, page 71