The Cincinnati-based manufacturer, whose products include Ivory Soap, Tide detergent and Folgers coffee, said it will phase out the plant at 1232 W. North Ave. by the summer of 1990.

Walk into a Walmart, Target, any drugstore chain in your neighborhood or a corner bodega for New York City dwellers, and chances are you’ll find an Ivory Soap bar, or a pack of 10 bars for under ...

A good example, he says, is the use of Public Enemy’s song Fight the Power in Spike Lee’s 1989 movie Do the Right Thing. In part, the song cries, “Elvis was a hero to most/ But he never ...

The story that Procter & Gamble had always offered was that the "floating soap" was the result of an accident: Perhaps Ivory's most famous feature — its ability to float — was the result of an ...

For as long as I can remember, a bar of Ivory soap has been a fixture in our bathroom. It was a classic, a symbol of simple, ...

An advertisement for Ivory Soap from Procter and Gamble, circa 1879. Walk into a Walmart, Target, any drugstore chain in your neighborhood or a corner bodega for New York City dwellers ...

"The original product is a no-frills, plain white, mild-scented bar soap with the name "IVORY" etched into it in the script. Impressively, it has stayed exactly that way for 143 years -- barring ...