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Ivory (French: Savon d'Ivoire) is an American flagship personal care brand created by the Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), including varieties of white and mildly scented bar soap that became famous for its claim of purity and for floating on water. Over the years, the brand has been extended to other varieties and products.
The company began to manufacture Ivory soap and profits grew to enormous proportions. His son William Alexander Procter and grandson William Cooper Procter were company presidents. [6] Procter is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, [7] as is his business partner, James Gamble.
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Staying in the city, his father established a nursery and Gamble apprenticed as a soap maker. Cincinnati then was a major pig-butchering center and produced large amount of pig fat used for making candles and soap. [5] He attended Kenyon College, graduated in 1824, and manufactured soap on his own in 1828.
As the company was known for Ivory soap, the serials became known as "soap operas". With the rise of television in the 1950s and 1960s, most of the new serials were sponsored, produced and owned (20 series) by the company (including The Guiding Light , which had begun as a radio serial, and made the transition to television lasting 72 years ...
The Thomas Hedley Co. was a British company based in Newcastle upon Tyne manufacturing soap and candles.It was founded in 1837 by two businessmen, Thomas Hedley and John Green, who set up a manufacturing facility on the city's City Road.
Swan was advertised as a hand soap used in the kitchen or the bathroom to bathe the baby. A typical advertisement boasted that it was "the white floating soap that's purer than the finest castiles". Swan's print ads were colorful works of art that often featured children, babies, soapsuds, and, of course, a swan. Some people displayed the Swan ...
Photograph of William Gossage, date unknown. At the age of 24 he took out his first patent which was a portable alarm to attach to clocks and watches. The purpose of this was to wake his French tutor to begin his lessons early. [2]