Pears (soap)
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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. Un
Bubbles by John Everett Millais. Pears' most famous advertisement, Thomas Barratt purchased the painting in August 1890.
Parody of Barratt's advertising
A close-up of Pears soap
Advertisement for Pears soap from the 1890s promoting cleanliness as "a first step towards lightening the White Man's Burden".
Hindustan Unilever
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Hindustan Unilever Limited is an Indian's fast-moving consumer goods company, headquartered in Mumbai. It is a subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Its products include foods, beverages, cl
Pears (soap)
…a cosmetic development laboratory on the Isleworth site. A major fire at the site destroyed the original factory. Pears soap is now made in India by Hindustan Unilever, a company in which Unilever now has a 67 percent share. Pears soap was made using a process entirely different from other soaps. A mixture of tallow…
Kodaikanal Lake, one of the most popular tourist attractions in South India, was contaminated following Unilever's illegal dumping of mercury.