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Lifebuoy is a British brand of soap marketed by Unilever. Lifebuoy was originally, and for much of its history, a carbolic soap containing phenol (carbolic acid, a compound extracted from coal tar). The soaps manufactured today under the Lifebuoy brand do not contain phenol. Currently, there are many varieties of Lifebuoy.
Pears soap was made using a process entirely different from other soaps. A mixture of tallow and other fats was saponified by an alkali.This is currently caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) since the ingredients list shows sodium salts of fatty acids, but a chemist reports that in the 1960s, caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) was used.
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Lux Soap was introduced to America in 1925 by the Lever Brothers. [6] It was a white soap packaged in pastel colors designed to be comparable to the finer French soaps, but more affordable. [7]
Lifebuoy with emergency light on a cruise ship A lifebuoy floating on water. A lifebuoy or life ring, among many other names (see § Other names), is a life-saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in water to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning. [1] Some modern lifebuoys are fitted with one or more seawater-activated lights to aid ...
A lifebuoy is a life saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in the water to prevent drowning. Lifebuoy may also refer to: Lifebuoy (soap), a brand of soap; Flamethrower, Portable, No 2, a British World War II era flamethrower, nicknamed Lifebuoy from the shape of its fuel tank
Dettol is a brand line of products used for disinfection and as an antiseptic.This brand was created with the introduction of Dettol antiseptic liquid in 1933 by the British company Reckitt and Colman.
Kayu Jawa was the name for the fishing grounds in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, from Napier Broome Bay to Cape Leveque. Other important fishing areas included West Papua, Sumbawa, Timor, and Selayar. [7] Matthew Flinders, in his circumnavigation of Australia in 1803, met a Makassan trepang fleet near present-day Nhulunbuy.