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Pears transparent soap is an old brand of soap, first produced commercially in 1789 by Andrew Pears at a factory just off Oxford Street in London, England. Andrew Pears was born in Cornwall around 1770 and came to London in about 1787, where he trained as a barber. According to Unilever records, Pears Soap was the world's first registered brand.

Requiring a gentle soap (which at that time was hard to obtain), he developed a soap based on glycerin, made with only natural products. The novelty of the soap's transparency also gave it a marketing advantage.

In 1835, his grandson Francis Pears joined the business and created the company A&F Pears Ltd. In 1838 Andrew Pears retired, leaving Francis in charge of the company. In 1851 the company was awarded the prize medal for soap at The Great Exhibition.

Francis' son-in-law Thomas J Barratt, sometimes referred to as the father of modern advertising, eventually took over the firm.

In 1862, production of the soap moved to Isleworth, and three years later Francis' son, Andrew, joined A&W Pears Ltd. as joint proprietor and ran the factory, whilst Thomas ran the head office in London.

In the mid 1910s, A&W Pears Ltd. became part of Lever Brothers and moved production to Port Sunlight in north west England. Between 1891 and 1925 Pears issued their now famous Annuals, now highly collectible.

As with many brands at the time, at the beginning of the 20th century Pears Soap advertisements contained illustrations of regal looking Europeans alongside unsophisticatedly drawn natives, presenting the prevailing European concept of the "civilizing mission".[1]

Pears soap was famous for decades in the 20th century for the annual "Miss Pears" competition in which parents entered their children into the high-profile hunt for a young brand ambassador to be used on packaging and in consumer promotions. Many Miss Pears subsequently entered acting or modelling.

Pears soap is now produced in India, and is available in 75g and 125g sizes.

The concave shape of the soap is formed by shrinkage while the soap is drying, and is not due to molding.

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Andrew Pears was farmer's son from Cornwall, born in 1768, who invented the transparent soap. He moved to London in 1789 from his home in Mevagissey, Cornwall, where he had trained as a barber.
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Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in London, England in the City of Westminster. With over 300 shops, it is Europe's largest shopping street.[1]

It runs for approximately a mile and a half from Marble Arch at the north east corner of Hyde Park, through Oxford
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Cornwall
Kernow

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Motto: Onen hag oll
(Cornish: One and all)

Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region South West England
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A barber (from the Latin barba, "beard") is someone whose occupation is to cut any type of hair, give shaves, and trim beards. In previous times, barbers also performed surgery and dentistry.
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Unilever

Public (Euronext: UNA , LSE:  ULVR , NYSE:  UN )
Founded Merger of Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie in 1930
Headquarters London and
Rotterdam

Key people Michael Treschow, Patrick Cescau
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A brand includes a name, logo, slogan, and/or design scheme associated with a product or service. Brand recognition and other reactions are created by the use of the product or service and through the influence of advertising, design, and media commentary.
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Simple Object Access Protocol, and lately also Service Oriented Architecture Protocol, but is now simply SOAP. The original acronym was dropped with Version 1.2 of the standard, which became a W3C Recommendation on June 24 2003, as it was considered to be misleading.
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Glycerol is a chemical compound with the formula HOCH2CH(OH)CH2OH. This colorless, odorless, viscous liquid is widely used in pharmaceutical formulations.
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Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition held in Hyde Park, London, England, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to be a popular 19th
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The word "proprietary" indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties.
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The British manufacturer Lever Brothers was founded in 1885 by William Hesketh Lever and his brother, James.

In 1885 they bought a small soap works in Warrington. Using glycerin and vegetable oils such as palm oil, rather than tallow, to manufacture soap, they produced a
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Port Sunlight is a village on the Wirral (in the North West of England). It was purpose built by Lord Leverhulme/William Hesketh Lever starting in 1888 for the employees of Lever Brothers soap factory (now part of Unilever).
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Molding is the process of manufacturing by shaping pliable raw material using a rigid frame or model called a mold.

A mold or mould is a hollowed-out block that is filled with a liquid like plastic, glass, metal, or ceramic raw materials.
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The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the English (or Anglo-Indian[1]) poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in 1899, with the subtitle The United States and the Philippine Islands.
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