Dead bodies can become covered in what looks like soap. Technically known as adipocere (and sometimes also called grave wax), ...
Such remains can form adipocere, a waxy substance formed by the interaction of fat in soft tissue with water, that inhibits skeletonization. Adipocere tended to occur "during a prolonged stay in ...
He also donated to the Mütter the famous Soap Lady, whose corpse had become coated in a waxy, soap-like substance called adipocere. The medical history museum in Philadelphia is notorious for ...