Scraping Crusty Dishes I Wondered…
…why ‘Palmolive‘? Now I know. File under ‘useless information/soap appreciation’.
In 1864, Caleb Johnson founded a soap company called B.J. Johnson Soap Co., in Milwaukee. In 1898, this company introduced a soap made of palm and olive oils, called Palmolive. It was so successful that that the B.J. Johnson Soap Co. changed their name to Palmolive in 1917.
I do these things so you don’t have to.
Fun | tree hugging sister | 
June 13, 2005 3:00 pm
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And here I was thinking it had something to do with Popeye’s love life…