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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. 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]

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Benjamin T. Babbitt - Wikipedia

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    The soap was sold from brightly painted street cars with musicians, which helped lead the phrase "get on the bandwagon." [7] Babbitt was the first manufacturer to offer tours of his factories and one of the first to give away free samples. [6] He used the advertising slogans, "Soap for all nations" and "Cleanliness is the scale of civilization ...

  7. 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.

  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. Lifebuoy (soap) - Wikipedia

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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.