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Description: | In 1789, Andrew Pears, a barber from Cornwall, established a shop in Gerrard Street, Soho, then a fashionable residential area of London. After some 18 years of trading, he realised the market potential for a more gentle cleansing product and developed a high quality, transparent amber soap with a delicate perfume of English garden flowers.
Thomas J Barratt, who later joined the firm as a partner, pioneered a number of highly original, sophisticated and expensive publicity schemes designed to improve the company's sales performance and withstand the threat of more competitive rivals. He persuaded prominent skin specialists to give glowing testimonials to Pears' Soap. In this advertisement, Sir Erasmus Wilson, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, recommends the beneficial qualities of this "most refreshing and agreeable of balms". The novelty of an optical illusion is also used to promote the Pears' name. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Medicine And Healthcare Science And Technology Medicine Trade And Economics | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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