soap powder
- noun
- UK
- After running the wash cycle, the soap powder helped make the whites bright again.
Examples
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The kinds used were household liquid detergent, bleach, chlorine tablets, and soap powder.
Academic text (1993) -
Once again, she filled it with clothes and sprinkled them with soap powder.
Fiction book (1996) -
I was just looking for the soap powder.
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Jack returned to his own possessions and offered her his box of soap powder.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yeah, we need some toothpaste and soap powder.
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Even the people using 1 Tbsp. of soap powder in a washing machine load might as well be using plain water.
Blog text (18) -
However, instead of mixing the baking soda and OxiClean into the laundry soap powder directly, I just add a scoop of each to every load.
Blog text (5) -
Then I just scooped out the amount that I needed, sealing the rest of the Ivory soap powder back into the Ziploc bag until the next time I needed to mix more laundry detergent.
Blog text (18) -
She added a scoop of soap powder to the washing machine to clean her clothes.
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To remove the stains, you should use soap powder when doing the laundry.
Synonyms
A powder you add to water to clean clothes
Powder that has extra cleaning chemicals to remove stains
Small thin pieces of soap that dissolve in water to make bubbles
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The compound noun soap powder comes from the simple idea of soap made into powder for washing clothes. That's why it means 'a powder used for cleaning clothes'.