The Woodbury Soap Company was an American manufacturer of personal care products such as cold cream, facial cream, facial powder, after-shave talc and ear swabs. Founded in Albany, New York in 1870, it became a subsidiary of the Andrew Jergens Company in 1901. Woodbury soap continued as a brand into the 1950s, and was sponsor to popular radio programs in the 1930s and 1940s.
John H. Woodbury in 1902
Woodbury advertisement featuring painting by Alonzo Myron Kimball, 1916
Detail of artwork by Clarence F. Underwood in another Woodbury ad on back cover of Photoplay, 1922
Kao Corporation is a Japanese global chemical and cosmetics company headquartered in Nihonbashi-Kayabacho, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan.
Kao headquarters in Tokyo, Japan