# Bombril

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**Bombril** is a Brazilian manufacturer of household [cleaning agents](/source/Cleaning_agent). Their main product is a fine-grade [steel wool](/source/Steel_wool) marketed with the brand "Bom Bril". The company at one point had 90% share of the Brazilian market for that product, and the brand name is, to this day, used in the country as a metonymy to steel wool in general, although the company manufactures other products as well.[1]

The company was created on 1948-01-14 at the [Brooklin Paulista](/source/Brooklin_Novo) borough of [São Paulo](/source/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_(city)), by entrepreneur Roberto Sampaio Ferreira,[2] with the name **Abrasivos Bombril Ltda**. The name was a contraction and shortening of the [Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language) words *bom brilho*, meaning "good shine".

Besides the Bom Bril steel wool, the company markets several other products such as the "Limpol" brand of dishwashing [detergent](/source/Detergent), the "Pinho Bril" scented disinfectant detergents, and the "Radium" [scouring powder](/source/Scouring_powder).

## References

1. ["Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa"](https://dicionario.priberam.org/bom%20bril) [Portuguese Language Dictionary] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-12-27.

1. Marcelo., Duarte (1997-01-01). *O livro das invenções*. Companhia das Letras. ISBN 8571647100. [OCLC 684145268](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/684145268)

## External links

- [Official site](http://www.bombril.com.br)

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