Lever Brothers
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Lever Brothers Limited was a British manufacturing company founded in 1885 by two brothers: William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, and James Darcy Lever. They invested in and successfully pro
Lever House in Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, the former headquarters of Lever Brothers
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
James Darcy Lever of Lever Brothers
Lifebuoy (soap)
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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. The soaps manufactured today under the Lifebuoy brand
Lever Brothers
…Hough Watson. Lever Brothers entered the United States market in 1895 and acquired Mac Fisheries, owner of T. Wall & Sons, in 1925. Its brands included Lifebuoy, Lux and Vim. Lever Brothers merged with Margarine Unie to form Unilever in 1929. Lever Brothers Limited was founded on 21 June 1884. Starting with a…
1902 ad for Lifebuoy Soap
Magazine insert advertising Lifebuoy soap
Lifebuoy Soap Packaging. Photographed at the Museum in den Halven Maen, The Netherlands
Advertising material for Lifebuoy Soap listing the product's many uses. Includes the tagline "Makes Health Infectious." The list includes the use of the product in the bath, with an endorsement by an "eminent M.D.", around the house as a general-purpose cleaner, and in the kitchen as a drain cleaner.