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  2. Leonarda Cianciulli - Wikipedia

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    Leonarda Cianciulli. Leonarda Cianciulli (14 April 1894 – 15 October 1970) was an Italian serial killer. Better known as the Soap-Maker of Correggio (Italian: la Saponificatrice di Correggio), [1] she murdered three women in the town of Correggio, Reggio Emilia, in 1939 and 1940, and turned their bodies into soap (using caustic soda) and ...

  3. Soap made from human corpses - Wikipedia

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    World War I. The claim that Germans used the fat from human corpses to make products, including soap, was made during World War I. This allegation appears to have originated as a rumor which was spread by the British and Belgian media. The first recorded reference was made in 1915 when Cynthia Asquith noted in her diary (16 June 1915): "We ...

  4. Adipocere - Wikipedia

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    Adipocere was first described by Sir Thomas Browne in his discourse Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658): [3]. In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castile-soap: wherof part remaineth with us.

  5. Soap - Wikipedia

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    Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications. [ 1 ] In a domestic setting, soaps, specifically "toilet soaps", are surfactants usually used for washing, bathing, and other types of housekeeping.

  6. Marseille soap - Wikipedia

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    Marseille soap or Savon de Marseille (French pronunciation: [savɔ̃ də maʁsɛj]) is a traditional hard soap made from vegetable oils that has been produced around Marseille, France, for about 600 years. The first documented soapmaker was recorded from the city in about 1370. [1] By 1688, Louis XIV introduced regulations in the Edict of ...

  7. Saponification - Wikipedia

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    Saponification. Saponification is a process of cleaving esters into carboxylate salts and alcohols by the action of aqueous alkali. Typically aqueous sodium hydroxide solutions are used. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is an important type of alkaline hydrolysis. When the carboxylate is long chain, its salt is called a soap.

  8. Fels-Naptha - Wikipedia

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    Fels-Naptha is an American brand of laundry soap manufactured by Summit Brands. The soap was originally created in 1893 by Fels and Company. It originally included the ingredient naphtha, effective for cleaning laundry and urushiol, an oil contained in poison ivy.

  9. Embalming - Wikipedia

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    Embalming is the art and science of preserving human remains by treating them (with chemicals in modern times) to forestall decomposition. [ 1 ] This is usually done to make the deceased suitable for viewing as part of the funeral ceremony or keep them preserved for medical purposes in an anatomical laboratory. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The three goals of ...

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