soap | Childhood Memories of growing up in the 1950s and ...
Lifebuoy soap was one of the first, invented in 1894. By the 1930s it was sold in two sizes – the larger bar was known as Household Lifebuoy and was for cleaning homes and clothes. The smaller bar was for personal use. By the 1950s, when I was a child, soap powder was available so clothes were no longer washed with bars of soap. My mum ...