Softsoap - Wikipedia
Softsoap is the trade name of Colgate-Palmolive's liquid hand soap and body wash.. William Sheppard of New York was granted patent number 49,561 for his "Improved Liquid Soap" on August 22, 1865, for his discovery that a small amount of conventional soap could be mixed with large amounts of spirits of ammonia (or hartshorn, as it was known at the time) to create a soap with a consistency of ...