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Category: Product History

  • Lifebuoy Soap Advertising

    Lifebuoy Soap Advertising

    Lifebuoy Soap was invented and promoted by the Lever Brothers in England in 1895. It was first propelled into the advertising world with claims that using it would protect you from germs and save you from sickness (hence the name Lifebuoy).

  • Milo is Better for You!

    During the depression years of the 1930s there was general concern that Australian children weren’t getting enough nutrients in their diet. In order to combat this, Thomas Mayne (the chief industrial chemist working for Nestle) set about working on a new product. It reportedly took him four years (during which time he worked up to…