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Zest is an American brand of soap and body wash owned by Sodalis USA (formerly High Ridge Brands) for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico and by Unilever for the rest of the world. It was initially introduced by Procter & Gamble in 1955 [ 1 ] with the slogan "For the first time in your life, feel really clean."
Mennen is a brand owned in most parts of the world by the Colgate-Palmolive Company. Its most notable product, Mennen Speed Stick, with its fougère perfume and green wide stick, was the US market leader among deodorants and antiperspirants for men for many years.
A bar of carbolic soap A puck of shaving soap in a ceramic bowl In chemistry , a soap is a salt of a fatty acid . [ 2 ] Household uses for soaps include washing , bathing , and other types of housekeeping , where soaps act as surfactants , emulsifying oils to enable them to be carried away by water.
Coast is an American brand of deodorant soap and body wash owned by Soldalis USA (formerly High Ridge Brands Company). It was originally introduced by Procter & Gamble in 1976. Its marketing catchphrase is "The Eye Opener!" Originally a bar soap, the company also began to produce body wash in 2003. [1]
Baby powder is an astringent powder used for preventing diaper rash and for cosmetic uses. It may be composed of talc (in which case it is also called talcum powder), corn starch or potato starch. [1] It may contain additional ingredients such as fragrances.
Unilever in Cyprus and Trinidad and Tobago manufactures Red Lifebuoy Soap with a carbolic fragrance, but as of 1976, it no longer contains phenol. [citation needed] The Lifebuoy soap manufactured in India and Indonesia for other markets, including South and South East Asia, has been updated to use red and other colours with 'modern' aromas. [4]
Rinso was one of the first mass-marketed soap powders. It was advertised widely on United States radio, being the sponsor of many radio programs such as the popular daytime soap opera Big Sister from 1936 to 1946, the dramatic anthology Grand Central Station from 1940 to 1942, the night-time programs Big Town from 1937 to 1942, Mayor of the Town from 1942 to 1943, and most notably The Amos 'n ...
Gold Dust washing powder was an all-purpose cleaning agent first introduced in the late 1880s by the Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank Soap Company based in New York City. [1] [2] Gold Dust was distributed in America by the Lever Brothers Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its first regional success was in the midwestern United States.