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  2. Soap - Wikipedia

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    Liquid soap was invented in the nineteenth century; in 1865, William Sheppard patented a liquid version of soap. [57] In 1898, B.J. Johnson developed a soap derived from palm and olive oils; his company, the B.J. Johnson Soap Company , introduced " Palmolive " brand soap that same year. [ 58 ]

  3. 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.

  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. Ivory (soap) - Wikipedia

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    Ivory Soap, 1800s. The original Ivory bar soap was whipped with air in its production and floated in water, although P&G discontinued this version of the soap in 2023, and the new version no longer floats. According to an apocryphal story, later discounted by the company, a worker accidentally left the mixing machine on too long, and the ...

  6. Soap (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Soap is an American sitcom television series that originally ran on ABC from September 13, 1977, until April 20, 1981. The show was created as a nighttime parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy.

  7. Laundry detergent - Wikipedia

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    Until the 1950s, soap was the predominant surfactant in laundry detergents. By the end of the 1950s so-called "synthetic detergents" (syndets) like branched alkylbenzene sulfonates had largely replaced soap in developed countries.

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

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    First he won America’s Top Young Scientist, now Heman Bekele is Time's 2024 Kid of the Year. 15-year-old who created soap that could treat skin cancer named Time's 2024 Kid of the Year Skip to ...

  9. 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).