Vim?is the name of a range of household?cleaning?products originally produced by?Lever Brothers?(later?Unilever).?The Vim brand is currently owned by the?German?multinational company?Henkel, and the British multinational company?Unilever?in?Canada, and?Vietnam.
Vim?scouring powder, one of the first products created by?William Lever, first appeared on the market in 1904, an offshoot of?Monkey Brand?scouring soap. The name is thought to derive from the colloquial English word “vim” which has the same meaning as the Latin?vis,?vim?(“force”, “vigour”).
Vim was produced at?Port Sunlight?near?Liverpool, England. The name Vim remained solely associated with the scouring powder until 1993, when a range of associated products were released. Vim was also the name of a detergent tablet manufactured by Lever Brothers, and sold in the United States during the 1960s. It was the sponsor of the sitcom on?CBS,?The Lucy Show, starring?Lucille Ball?.