DANTE NESTI, founder of our company. In September 1945, at the age of twenty, Dante Nesti started making soap in his own home with a small 50- litre cauldron. By 1947 his operation had become a reliable firm registered with the Florence Chamber of Commerce. Today the Nesti Soap Works, with its 70,000 and 120,000-litre cauldrons, is one of the major plants in Europe for the production of soap by the classical cauldron method.