Emollient: alternatives and connections

Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.

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An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.

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An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the…

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That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

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That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

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The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from w…

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Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

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That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

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of Salve

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of Soften

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