Home › Words › S › sandsoapsandsoapsandsoap means 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.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sandsoap ranks #7,528 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom sand + soap.nounA 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.e.g.“He filled a basin with water, and, with an old brush and piece of sandsoap, attacked the stove.” — 1922, Joseph Hergesheimer, Mountain Blood:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).