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Ivory (French: Savon d'Ivoire) is an American flagship personal care brand created by the Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), including varieties of white and mildly scented bar soap that became famous for its claim of purity and for floating on water. Over the years, the brand has been extended to other varieties and products.
The company began to manufacture Ivory soap and profits grew to enormous proportions. His son William Alexander Procter and grandson William Cooper Procter were company presidents. [6] Procter is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, [7] as is his business partner, James Gamble.
Staying in the city, his father established a nursery and Gamble apprenticed as a soap maker. Cincinnati then was a major pig-butchering center and produced large amount of pig fat used for making candles and soap. [5] He attended Kenyon College, graduated in 1824, and manufactured soap on his own in 1828.
Some of today's most popular products are the same things our grandparents bought decades ago. Bayer aspirin, Ivory soap, and others have roots extending back to the 1800s.
Swan was advertised as a hand soap used in the kitchen or the bathroom to bathe the baby. A typical advertisement boasted that it was "the white floating soap that's purer than the finest castiles". Swan's print ads were colorful works of art that often featured children, babies, soapsuds, and, of course, a swan. Some people displayed the Swan ...
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Port Ivory is a coastal area in the northwestern corner of Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States. It is located on Newark Bay near the entrances the Kill van Kull in the east and Arthur Kill in the west. It is bordered by Arlington to the east, Old Place to the south, Newark Bay to the north, and the Arthur Kill to the west.
In 1942 due to World War II all soaps were rationed in Britain. Imperial Leather soap was therefore marketed as being the best choice because it lasted longer than other soaps. [6] The following is an extract from a World War II advertisement: "Imperial Leather Toilet Soap is one of the few luxuries still available to the discriminating.