Sunlight Soap was the world’s first packaged and branded laundry soup, and was first produced in 1884. It was one of the first commercially produced soaps that used glycerine and vegetable oils rather than animal tallow. It was also the first brand of soap which came already cut into bars, as prior to this housewives would have bought soap in long bars which they would have to chop up themselves, or made their soap from scratch. Sunlight soap was used primarily for laundry and household cleaning in New Zealand, and can still be bought in New Zealand, but in the Netherlands it was used for in the bath for cleaning skin as well.