Mysore Sandal Soap

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Mysore Sandal Soap is a brand of soap manufactured by the Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited (KSDL), a company owned by the government of Karnataka in India. This soap has been manufactured since 1916, when Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, the king of Mysore, set up the Government Soap Factory in Bangalore. The main motivation for setting up the factory was the excessive sandalwood reserves that the Mysore Kingdom had, which could not be exported to Europe because of the First World War. In 1918, KSDL was incorporated as a company by merging the Government Soap Factory with the sandalwood oil factories at Shimoga and Mysore. Mysore Sandal Soap is a soap brand known for using sandalwood oil as its main ingredient. KSDL owns a geographical indication tag for the soap, which protects the use of the Mysore Sandal Soap brand name. In 2006, Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni was selected as the first brand ambassador of Mysore Sandal Soap.

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