Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.

Sunlight soap : a child can use it / Lever Brothers Ltd.

A sovereign remedy.

A nutritious food-drink for all ages : Horlick's Malted Milk for the seven ages / Horlick's Food Company.

A nest egg is very convenient at times ... : save money in the wear and tear of costly fabric by using Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.

What you should know about Medac : medac cream heals spots, pimples, acne-quickly! (please read this leaflet carefully).

The new beauty-culture : an absolutely new way of beautifying the complexion... Pond's Extract Soap / Armour & Company.

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1 sheet : colour (red, black, white and brown) ; 14 x 38 cm

Borax extract of soap : by royal letters patent / Patent Borax Company Ltd.

Diecut, colour label for a tablet of glycerine soap with a double line gold border. It depicts a (round) tablet of the translucent, amber coloured soap on a pale blue background.

Soap ephemera. Box 4

Witch hazel glycerine soap / Dr. J.B. Lynas & Son.

Booklet showing views around Port Sunlight and in the soap factories and workers' housing. This includes a dental surgery and a doctor's surgery, social activities and a maternity wing with nurses. Glycerine and cattle food manufacture is also featured.

48 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 21 x 26 cm

The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

Leaflet advertising advertising Hudson's Dry Soap detergent. The front is a colour illustration showing women washing in a stone bath in front of ancient ruins and trees, a lake and mountians behind them and a boat with a large box of the soap in the foreground. Robert Spear Hudson (d.1884) invented the first dry soap powder, "Hudson's Dry Soap" in 1837 in his small pharmacy in West Bromwich, England, moving to Liverpool in the 1880s. He advertised extensively, first locally and then nationally, as his business and use of his products grew. The firm was taken over by Lever Brothers Ltd. (now part of Unilever) in 1908.

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 14 x 23 cm

Hudson's Dry Soap : for washing and scouring everything ... / [R.S. Hudson].

Probably part of the packaging for a bar of soap. This is printed in black on off-white greaseproof paper. Text, ornate logo and the 3 small illustrations in circular and oval borders are contained within an overall decorative border.

Dr. Lovelace's scented superior family soap : manufactured only by the East Lancashire Soap Company, Limited : Enfield Soap Works, near Accrington : Junior Wrap.

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Borax extract of soap : by royal letters patent / Patent Borax Company Ltd.

Witch hazel glycerine soap / Dr. J.B. Lynas & Son.

The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

Hudson's Dry Soap : for washing and scouring everything ... / [R.S. Hudson].

Dr. Lovelace's scented superior family soap : manufactured only by the East Lancashire Soap Company, Limited : Enfield Soap Works, near Accrington : Junior Wrap.

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Borax extract of soap : by royal letters patent / Patent Borax Company Ltd.

Witch hazel glycerine soap / Dr. J.B. Lynas & Son.

The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

Hudson's Dry Soap : for washing and scouring everything ... / [R.S. Hudson].

Dr. Lovelace's scented superior family soap : manufactured only by the East Lancashire Soap Company, Limited : Enfield Soap Works, near Accrington : Junior Wrap.

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