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Bar of carbolic soap, demonstrating the rich red colour that gives the soap its alternative name, red soap. Carbolic soap, sometimes referred to as red soap, is a mildly antiseptic soap containing carbolic acid (phenol) and/or cresylic acid (cresol), both of which are phenols derived from either coal tar or petroleum sources. [1] [2]
It was North America's best-selling medicated/health soap until roughly 1951. It was well known for its red and yellow packaging, red color, octagonal shape, and carbolic aroma. Due to declining sales sometime in 1951 or 1952, Lever Bros. experimented with adding perfumes to the soap and made the changes permanent in 1954.
A bar of carbolic soap A puck of shaving soap in a ceramic bowl In chemistry , a soap is a salt of a fatty acid . [ 2 ] Household uses for soaps include washing , bathing , and other types of housekeeping , where soaps act as surfactants , emulsifying oils to enable them to be carried away by water.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Carbolic may refer to: Phenol, also known as carbolic acid; Carbolic soap, a type of soap containing carbolic acid; See also ...
W. H. Burford and Sons was a soap and candle-making business founded in Adelaide in 1840 by William Henville Burford (1807–1895), an English butcher who arrived in the new colony in 1838. It was one of the earliest soapmakers in Australia, and up to the 1960s when it closed, the oldest.
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In July 2008, the company announced that it was opening six locations in Canada. With the company acquiring Canadian-based La Senza, they felt it was the opportunity to move into a growing Canadian market, with The Body Shop being its main competition. [10] [11] Bath & Body Works operates more than 1,900 stores. [12]
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