Our Story
Pears is born in
Soho, London
In 1807, Sir Andrew Pears perfected the soap making process to create the iconic pure & transparent Pears soap in the fashionable district of Soho, London using a method he described as: “curious chemical process by which soap is separated from all the impure and noxious substances”
Thomas Barratt
& Pears
Thomas Baratt, the “father of modern advertising” joins Pears and creates some of the most iconic Pears advertising with Victorian painters such as the The Famous Bubble Painting By Sir John Everett Millais
Pears wins the
Grand
Prix award
at Paris
Pears becomes a
part
of Unilever
Pears launches the famous miss pears competition