# Robert Taylor Dead at 77

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 17, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-taylor-dead-at-77/669024 "2013-09-17T03:18:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-taylor-dead-at-77/669024/1 "2013-09-17T03:18:06Z")

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[The inventor of liquid soap](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/inventor-of-liquid-soap-robert-r-taylor-dies/story-e6frg6so-1226718199301). Died late last month.

I particularly liked this part: \*\*"He planned to begin selling through his small company, Village Bath Products, but realised that if it caught on, home products manufacturers such as Johnson & Johnson, where he had once worked, would copy the soap-in-a-pump-bottle idea and quickly put him out of business.

“So he leveraged his company for every penny it was worth, $US12 million, and bought 100 million little bottle hand-pumps from the only two US manufacturers that made them.”\*\*