Salt's model was followed by the Lever Brothers who were manufacturing soap powder on Merseyside.

So Bud has invented a special soap powder that — oh, never mind.

“We use it as toothpaste, for soap powder, lipstick.”

Plus, I know when we get back to our apartment Daddy will fill the small sink with water and soap powder to wash our clothes.

A second man also bought a box of soap powder, and when he too found a tablet inside, he went to his local police station.