Luis Spitz has been a world-renowned expert in the soap industry for over 50 years. He studied at the University of Illinois and Wayne State University, and received his chemical engineering degree in 1960. He became an expert on soap processing while working at The Dial Corporation in Chicago until 1965, when he began to represent Italian Manufacturers of Soap Processing Plants and Packaging Machinery. He has served as an independent consultant in the soap industry since 1978. From 1977-2015, Luis chaired and presented at numerous global conferences on soaps and detergents, including the first AOCS World Conference on Soaps and Detergents (1977) and several SODEOPEC conferences (2002, 2006, 2008, 2015). He has edited and contributed to 7 soap-related titles, including Soap Technology for the 1990s (1990), Soaps and Detergents - A Theoretical and Practical Review (1996), SODEOPEC (2004), the first and second editions of The Evolution of Clean - A Visual Journey through the History of Soaps and Detergents (2006, 2009) and Soap Manufacturing Technology, First Edition (2009).