CS024 Sunlight Soap

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Sunlight Soap

William Hesketh Lever was a partner in his fathers wholesale grocery business and was a wealthy man. Whilst on holiday in Scotland he decided to go into the soap trade - why this was no one can be sure. In the 1880’s the process for making soap was crude and many of the products of the time irritated the CS024 Sunlight Soap

skin. He registered the name Sunlight in 1884 and a year later the first experimental soaps were being produced. The formula was a mix of coconut, palm kernel oil, cottonseed oil, resin and tallow.
The orders rolled in and there was great difficulty in satisfying demand and expansion was required. he purchased land in Cheshire and named it Port Sunlight after the soap. by the middle of the 1890’s they were selling 40,000 tons of soap.

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