A Facebook campaign has forced the makers of Pears Transparent Soap to abandon a new recipe after claims the formula 'smells and feels disgusting'. Customers criticised the addition of chemicals to ...

THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'. MEVAGISSEY MUSEUM. Andrew Pears, the son of a Cornish farmer, was born at Mevagissey and was the founder of Pears Soap.

In 1789 Andrew Pears set up a factory just off Oxford Street in London to produce and sell soap and cosmetic products. Pears began to experiment with the purification of soap, and was able to produce ...

Is there any soap as distinctive in appearance and smell as Pears? The brand was invented in 1789 by Andrew Pears, the son of a Cornish miner who travelled to London to seek his fortune. There he ...

This fanciful flying machine was used to sell Pears’ Soap in the July, 1906 issue of the Atlantic Monthly Advertiser. This image can be found in the Smithsonian Institution Images Catalog. See also: ...