Pears Transparent Soap

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Andrew's grandson-in-law, John Barrett, was the marketing genius who made Pears soap a household name.

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Pears found that his powders and creams were frequently being used to cover up damage caused by the harshness of the soaps and other beauty products that were in general use at the time, many of which contained arsenic or lead.

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Unilever was required to list those of the 26 specific ingredients that were in Pears in concentrations greater than 0. The clarity of the soap gave it a novel transparent appearance, which provided a marketing advantage. Production moved to Port Sunlight in the 1960s, when Unilever, successor to Lever Brothers, set up a cosmetic development laboratory on the Isleworth site.Also, the information may need to be expanded as there are at least four ingredient listings known to exist for Pears soap in recent years. The latter was completely free of industrial cleaners, free of synthetic colours and (apparently) free of synthetic odorants, whose place was occupied by natural herbal fragrances.