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  2. Soap - Wikipedia

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    A handmade soap bar Two equivalent images of the chemical structure of sodium stearate, a typical ingredient found in bar soaps Emulsifying action of soap on oil. Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications. [1]

  3. Andrew Pears - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Pears was an English man, born around 1770, who invented transparent soap. He moved to London in 1789 from his home in Mevagissey, Cornwall, where he had trained as a barber. [1] He opened a barber's shop in the then-fashionable residential area of Gerrard Street, Soho, that attracted the business of many wealthy families. At that time ...

  4. Pears (soap) - Wikipedia

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    Pears Glycerin soap is a British brand of soap first produced and sold in 1807 by Andrew Pears, at a factory just off Oxford Street in London. It was the world's first mass-market translucent soap. Under the stewardship of advertising pioneer Thomas J. Barratt , A. & F. Pears initiated several innovations in sales and marketing.

  5. Fels-Naptha - Wikipedia

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    Fels-Naptha is an American brand of laundry soap manufactured by Summit Brands. The soap was invented in 1893 by Fels and Company. The soap was invented in 1893 by Fels and Company. It originally included the ingredient naphtha , effective for cleaning laundry and removing urushiol (an oil contained in poison ivy).

  6. Lever Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Watson invented the process which resulted in a new soap, using glycerin and vegetable oils such as palm oil, rather than tallow. [2] The resulting soap was a good, free-lathering soap, at first named Honey Soap then later named Sunlight Soap. Production reached 450 tons per week by 1888.

  7. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo and currently has over 120 million views and almost 5 million likes. [15] [16] Hurley was behind the look of the website, creating the logo. [17]

  8. 15-year-old who created soap that could treat skin cancer ...

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    A teen who created a soap that could "transform skin cancer treatment" was chosen as the 2024 Kid of the Year by Time magazine and Time for Kids.. Heman Bekele from Annandale, Virginia, is a 15 ...

  9. Soap made from human corpses - Wikipedia

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    Neander points out that the soap-making recipe from Mazur's testimony was contradictory and unrealistic, with a testimony from 12 May 1945 which claimed that 75 kg of fat were produced and 8 kg of soap were produced from the first boiling, a testimony from 28 May 1945 which claimed that 70–80 kg of fat were produced from 40 bodies and 25 kg ...