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  • Thumbnail for Soap
    soaps, specifically "toilet soaps", are surfactants usually used for washing, bathing, and other types of housekeeping. In industrial settings, soaps...
    41 KB (4,258 words) - 21:48, 23 July 2024
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    SOAP (formerly an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation...
    24 KB (2,548 words) - 23:13, 5 August 2024
  • Insecticidal soap is used to control many plant insect pests. Soap has been used for more than 200 years as an insect control. Because insecticidal soap works on...
    12 KB (1,257 words) - 09:49, 15 June 2024
  • A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble...
    167 KB (20,736 words) - 12:34, 4 August 2024
  • "Hawes' soap", the product of the "cold process" for soap manufacture, and was granted a patent in 1839. The works closed down in 1849. Soap was taxed...
    19 KB (2,126 words) - 19:14, 22 October 2023
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    John Knight Soap Works in London, which later became The Royal Primrose Soap Works. In 1810, John Knight started making candles and soaps, in his spare...
    10 KB (1,048 words) - 06:08, 18 September 2022
  • During the 20th century there were various alleged instances of soap being made from human body fat. During World War I the British press claimed that...
    34 KB (4,372 words) - 13:01, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wright's Coal Tar Soap
    by William Valentine Wright in 1860, Wright's Coal Tar Soap is a British brand of antiseptic soap designed to thoroughly cleanse the skin. It is an orange...
    11 KB (1,695 words) - 05:23, 12 March 2024
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    William Lever and his brother James entered the soap business in 1885 by buying a small soap works in Warrington. The brothers teamed up with a Cumbrian...
    12 KB (1,128 words) - 22:27, 29 April 2024
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    came to be known as Sunlight Park after the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap Works was built south of Eastern Avenue. The stadium hosted the city’s first...
    3 KB (304 words) - 19:48, 2 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Swan Soap
    that Swan was "the white floating soap that's purer than the finest castiles". Swan's print ads were colorful works of art, and often featured children...
    4 KB (474 words) - 07:10, 29 June 2024
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    was to allow construction of the CWS Irlam soap works and the adjacent Partington Steel & Iron Co. works at Partington (both of which had their own private...
    73 KB (8,629 words) - 09:48, 10 June 2024
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    produced low-priced, good-quality soap from the 1850s. William Hesketh Lever and his brother, James, bought a small soap works in Warrington in 1886 and founded...
    59 KB (7,124 words) - 13:42, 23 June 2024
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    due to the smell. In an 1890 report, British chemists at the Whitehall Soap Works in Leeds noted that dilution seemed to make the smell worse and described...
    9 KB (929 words) - 18:23, 19 July 2024
  • A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines tele (for "television") and novela...
    70 KB (8,708 words) - 05:17, 3 August 2024
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    with the design of 111 Gallowgate is Alexander Mavor who designed the soap-works for Ogston & Tennant. Alexander Mavor trained as a builder in London before...
    6 KB (573 words) - 08:43, 25 December 2019
  • Chandran is an Indian television actress who predominantly works in Malayalam and Tamil soap operas. She played the lead in STAR Vijay's serial Saravannan...
    9 KB (211 words) - 10:33, 20 March 2024
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    Bath & Body Works, LLC. is an American retail store chain that sells soaps, lotions, fragrances, and candles. It was founded in 1990 in New Albany, Ohio...
    7 KB (523 words) - 15:34, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soap Box Derby
    The Soap Box Derby is a youth-oriented soap box car racing program which has been running in the United States since 1934. Proclaimed "the greatest amateur...
    245 KB (28,947 words) - 14:13, 28 July 2024
  • Saponification (category Soaps)
    for producing glycerol (C3H5(OH)3). Some soap-makers leave the glycerol in the soap. Others precipitate the soap by salting it out with sodium chloride...
    12 KB (1,246 words) - 13:38, 28 January 2024
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