Rinso
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Rinso is the brand name of a laundry soap marketed by Unilever. It is used in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The brand was created by Robert S Hudson and originally branded Hudson's Soap, which was sold to Lever Brothers of Port Sunlight, England, in 1908. It was also manufactured by the Lever Brothers Company (later known as Unilever) in the United States, starting in 1918.