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CS024 Sunlight Soap - click for HI RES

 

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 theCS024 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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I am from fife scotland and have a great passion for lever products. a few years ago i bought some very old wood framed photos of the lever family including williams father. i think they came from a house clearance in the borders of scotland where some members of the lever brothers lived.i would be most interested if anyone can shed any light if they lived in scotland or any information on the photos/pictures. some were taken at convensions in america at the turn of the 20th century. i am truly fasinated by this family and the way thay thay were so succesful. many thanks. jk Jackjoc1@aol.com

 

 

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