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| Product type | Cleaning product |
|---|---|
| Owner | Colgate-Palmolive |
| Country | United States |
| Introduced | 1910 |
| Website | www.murphyoilsoap.com |
Murphy Oil Soap is an American brand of cleaning product that is manufactured by Colgate-Palmolive.[1] In 1910, Jeremiah Murphy, director of the Phoenix Oil Company, bought the formula for Murphy Oil Soap from a recent immigrant from Germany. The soap, with its potassium vegetable oil base, and no phosphates, proved to be very popular in Ohio. The company continued to be run by the Murphy family for 80 years, when they sold it to Colgate.[2] It is available in a concentrated liquid form which is then mixed with water, as well as pre-diluted form which comes in a trigger spray bottle. Commercials for the product state that the product is ideal for cleaning wood surfaces.
The other constituents of Murphy Oil Soap are sodium EDTA, propylene glycol, fragrance, surfactants, and water.[3]
- ^ "History". Colgate-Palmolive. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ "Murphy Phoenix Company". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Cleveland OH: Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ^ THE MURPHY-PHOENIX -- MURPHY OIL SOAP LIQUID MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET as published by OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Archived 2008-11-08 at the Wayback Machine. FSC: 9160. NIIN: 00B130042. Manufacturer's CAGE: 5R288. MSDS Serial Number: BKLST