STRETCHING the equity of its glycerine-based winter care brand - Pears, into the kids segment, HLL has decided to float a new variant - Pears Junior. The company has decided to bridge the gap in the ...

The soap, the world's oldest brand, recently changed its formula - trebling the number of ingredients used - and making it 'smell and feel disgusting', according to some users. A Facebook group ...

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 ...

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 ...

A BOY who shot to fame in a nation-wide advert for Pears soap and grew to become a Second World War hero has died at 91. Johnny Hill, then aged three, was with his older brother Ron during a family ...

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 ...