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The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

Open the door and come in : Brooke's "Monkey Brand" Soap / [Lever Brothers Limited].

Brooke's Soap Monkey Brand (won't wash clothes) : leaves a good impression behind / Benjamin Brooke & Company.

The 1895 monkey puzzle : if you like the puzzle, try the soap, it puzzles no one / Brooke's Soap.

Brooke's Soap Monkey Brand : we're a capital couple the moon and I, I polish the Earth, she brightens the sky ... / [Lever Brothers Limited].

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

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.

White as snow : if you wish your linen to be white as snow, Sunlight Soap will make it so.

Sunlight : my soap is my fortune sir, she said / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Sunlight soap : why does a woman look old sooner than a man? / [Lever Brothers Ltd.]

It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.

Dame Trot : to market, to market went little Dame Trot, Sunlight Soap for mother the pretty maid got... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].

A friend for fair forms and faces ... : Swan White Floating Soap ... / Lever Brothers Ltd.

You need not open the door so frequently for the doctor if you would always use Sunlight Soap, Lifebuoy Soap ... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].

Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].

Bookmark : Strong arms are not necessary to do the washing when Sunlight Soap is used.

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Lifebuoy Larry in the jungle! / [with the compliments of Lever Brothers Limited ; illustrated by Jack Grandfield].

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Lever Brothers

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Images produced by Lever Brothers

Works from the collections

The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

Bookmark : Strong arms are not necessary to do the washing when Sunlight Soap is used.

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Lifebuoy Larry in the jungle! / [with the compliments of Lever Brothers Limited ; illustrated by Jack Grandfield].

White as snow : if you wish your linen to be white as snow, Sunlight Soap will make it so.

Lever Brothers

Images from the collections

Images produced by Lever Brothers

Works from the collections

The story of Port Sunlight / Lever Brothers.

Bookmark : Strong arms are not necessary to do the washing when Sunlight Soap is used.

Sunlight soap : the mother: "Good old Sunlight done dis job" : The boy: "Wish it would do mine" / Lever Brothers Ltd.

Lifebuoy Larry in the jungle! / [with the compliments of Lever Brothers Limited ; illustrated by Jack Grandfield].

White as snow : if you wish your linen to be white as snow, Sunlight Soap will make it so.

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