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==History==

In the early 1900s, in New York, cookware peddler and ahis brother-in-la, jeweller John Hilder Loeb and his brother-in-law{{cn}}, were working on a solution to blackened cookware.<ref name=bril/> Using [[Iron (III) oxide#Polishing|jewellers' rouge]], with soap and fine steel wool from Germany, they developed a method to scour the backsides of cooking utensils when they began to blacken. The method worked, and the peddler added this new product, soap with steel wool, into his line of goods for sale.<ref name="bril">{{cite web

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Demand for the steel wool, copper spun and soap with the jewellers' rouge increased quickly, and the peddler and the jeweller decided to patent the product.<ref name=bril/> Because they lacked the money to pay for legal services, they offered New York attorney Milton Loeb an interest in their business instead. Loeb accepted, and in 1913, he secured a patent for the product under the name Brillo. The partnership that formed between the peddler, the jeweller and the attorney became known as the '''Brillo Manufacturing Company''', with headquarters and production operations in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/28/archives/milton-loeb-lawyer-who-began-brillo-corporation-is-dead-at-84.html|title=Milton Loeb, Lawyers Who Began Brillo Corporation, Is Dead at 84|first=|last=|work=The New York Times|date=28 January 1972|access-date=19 March 2018}}</ref><ref name=bril/>

By 1917, the company was selling packaged boxes of six pads, with a cake of soap included. During [[World War I]], it helped with needed efforts of field operations. <ref name=bril/> In 1921, the company moved its production facility to [[London, Ohio]]. It was only in the 1930s that soap was contained within the pad.