The consumer goods maker was among the top gainers on the FTSE 100 index, up 3.6% on the strength of better-than-expected third-quarter sales, up 5.7%.
The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 69.06 points or 1.1% at 6,338.67.
Miners rose but then fell. Glencore turned a 3% gain into a 2% fall and BHP Billiton a 1.3% rise into a 0.6% fall.
Burberry was 8% lower at the end of play, having been 12% down on  a warning of an "increasingly challenging" Chinese market and a fall in sales there.
On the currency markets, the pound was flat against the dollar at $1.5484 and rose 0.49% against the euro at â‚¬1.3540.

The material is to be transported by road from the nuclear power complex to Scrabster harbour for shipping to Sellafield in Cumbria.
A nine mile (14.4km) stretch of the A836 would be involved.
Dounreay is being decommissioned and tonnes of its radioactive material is being reprocessed at Sellafield.
Other items have been taken to the Cumbrian nuclear site by train, and also flown to the US and shipped to Belgium.
Dounreay said the removal of the latest material formed part of a new phase of the clean up of the site near Thurso.
A spokesperson for Dounreay said: "Dounreay is being demolished, so nuclear materials are being returned to national stocks.
"This programme started in 2001 and is expected to take several more years to complete.
"Our priority at all times is to comply with regulations designed to ensure the safety and security of nuclear materials, both while in storage and transit."
The A836 forms part of the North Coast 500 (NC500) tourist route.
Tom Campbell, managing director of the tourism initiative, said: "The North Coast 500 is based on roads where people live, work commute as well as visit and enjoy the north Highlands and these roads, like all roads are subject to closures, roadworks and diversions.
"The nine mile stretch represents less than 2% of the NC500 and our understanding is that actual closures will be rare and infrequent."

Rob Davies, 32 from Brecon, and his fellow Welshmen won their first three matches in the round-robin stage.
In the final Italy won the doubles 3-2, but Matthews levelled the tie with a 3-1 win against Federico Falco.
Rob Davies then secured gold with 3-0 win against Andrea Borgato.
Elsewhere in the British Para Table Tennis Team, Aaron McKibbin and Ross Wilson took silver in the men's class 8.
Megan Shackleton, 18, and her Russian team partner Aleksandra Vasileva took silver in the women's class 4-5, and there were bronze medals for Paul Karabardak and Martin Perry in the men's class 6.
Further bronzes followed for Will Bayley and Billy Shilton in the men's class 8, and Ashley Facey Thompson and his German partner Yannick Ruddenklau in the men's class 9.
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(Close: London's leading shares closed up more than 1% in Thursday trading, partly thanks to strong results from Unilever.
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A stretch of road in Caithness is to be closed for short periods on occasions over the next 12 months so nuclear material can be moved from Dounreay.
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Paralympic table tennis gold medallist Rob Davies, Tom Matthews and Paul Davies beat world champions Italy to win gold in the men's class 1 team event at the German Open on Saturday.