The Brillo Pad was invented in the early 1900s by a cookware peddler and his brother-in-law, a jeweller, as a solution to cleaning blackened cookware.
After demand for the product took off, they offered New York lawyer Milton Loeb a share of the profits in exchange for assistance in protecting their invention, a "scouring pad" made of fine steel wool and jeweler's rouge. Loeb obtained a patent in 1913 under the trademark Brillo, from the Latin word for "bright."
- 1917 The Brillo Manufacturing Co was selling packaged boxes of six pads and a separate bar of soap.
- 1930s The soap began to be sold with the soap contained within the pad.
- 1962 The company merged with Purex Industries.
- 1985 The Dial Corporation bought Purex Industries.
- 1997 The Dial Corporation sold Brillo to Church and Dwight.
See Also
- [1] Brillo website
Sources of Information
- [2] Wikipedia