Patent Rosin Refining Co
Henry Davis Pochin developed a process for the clarification of rosin, a brown substance used to make soap, by passing steam through it so that after distillation it came out white, thus enabling the production of white soap. He patented the process with Edward Hunt and later sold the rights to this process.
1859 Patent application by Edward Hunt and Henry Davis Pochin, both of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, Chemists, for the invention of " improved resin and resinous substances."[1]
1861 Dissolution of the Partnership between Edward Hunt, Henry Davis Pochin, John Johnson, Thomas Johnson, and Diedrick Fehrman, as Rosin Refiners and Manufacturers, at Runcorn Gap. and at Liverpool, under the firm of the Patent Rosin Refining Company[2]