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Description: | After the repeal of the soap tax in 1853, the English soap trade grew dramatically. Advances in science led to a drop in the cost of production, and a consequent drop in price for the consumer. For the first time the working classes could afford to use soap on a daily basis.
There was a division in use of different soaps. Advertisers would tell their customers which soaps were for the body, which for clothes-washing, and which for general domestic cleaning. Venus Soap, advertised here, was designed for laundry use. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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