Standing on the promises of God made him famous, More about William Colgate who is likely to be written on all tooth pastes.

Uncategorized

Now days in Rwanda, Africa and the whole world they use the medicine of the teeth,in different places around the world they use the medicine of the teeth were they gave it one name which is called Colgate. You can ask your self the reasons to why many people call every medicine of the teeth Colgate?

Many people around the world and even here in Rwanda you will find a person going to buy the medicine of the teeth you will find that person saying that I want Colgate, but surprisingly you find that what he meant was not really Colgate it self, but even though people use this name to mean every teeth medicine you will find the reasons to it is because it become so famous, the industry which made Colgate it also makes oil, soaps and other many things.

William Colgate ” this man who became so famous in the whole world that even the products which looks like for him are called after him but made from other people, WILLIAM COLGATE was born 25.january, 1783 he was born in England in a place called Hollingbourne ,

he died on 25.march.1857. This man was born in a family of Colgate, his father is called Robert Colgate. This family had to flew from ingland to America due to the war that was taking place.

His father was a farmer, William Colgate loved to make soap were he did them with his father. at there home there were not rich at all some time he used to think he was a burden to them . In his 19 years Colgate went to start up his own business, he started on him self with the support from his Aunt but he came to loose in only one year that he started a business.

Colgate did not be discouraged by this but he decided to shift from the place they lived and went to new York to look for the better life, in his journey to shift he met his Christian friend who gave him the word that brought a big change in his life. He told him this ” Give your heart to Christ, and give God your all things” since then William Colgate became a Christian and he started to give his life to Christ .

Even though it wasn’t easy for him, William prayed one prayer when his friend had a dviced him and helped him to give the lord his whole heart in all he tried to do, William did his business and started to give his tieth from his business, that’s how he started his business and company, William Colgate has different products that are loved by many people in whole world. That’s how he came from selling soaps to even other products

William Colgate continued to be faithful to God by giving tieth and offerings and as he did so he could get more money and became famous until now.

After his death in 1857 ,his company was latter lead by his son Samuel Colgate he changed its name to Colgate and company, This teeth medicine was sold for the first time in 1896. After in 1928 this business was bought by other company that changed the way this medicine was made.

That’s all about the name Colgate that was famous all over the world ,now who ever is buying teeth medicine you find him saying I want “Colgate”.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *