The ingredients in your cleaning products fall into several different categories, added to provide different characteristics and cleaning functions. Each product formula is a careful balance of various ingredients that will work best for what you are trying to clean. Learn more!
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2023 NATIONAL
CLEANING WEEK
TOOLKIT
The fourth Sunday in March kicks off
National Cleaning Week, celebrating
the beginning of the spring cleaning
season. This is a great time to raise
awareness about using cleaning
products in our homes and
communities safely and effectively.
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI)
has declared the theme for this year
“Understanding Clean.”
Everyone cleans, for many reasons,
and has a right to…
11In-House Counsel Committee, June 2018
INGREDIENT COMMUNICATION AND
TRANSPARENCY IN CLEANING PRODUCTS:
A WIDENING LANDSCAPE
Douglas M. Troutman
Since the era of the seventies, requirements
for more information about cleaning productingredients have been part of the legislative and
regulatory landscape. In just the past decade,
stakeholders including industry, nongovernmental
organizations, and consumer interest groups have
engaged…
Glycerine: an overview
terms technical data
properties performance
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ACI member sustainability challenge contributes to nonprofit bringing clean water into underserved communities
For the second year, the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) led social media challenge, ‘Our Future is Clean,’ highlighted the sustainability efforts across the cleaning products industry. The challenge kicked off on September 17 in coordination with Climate Week and ran through October 31.
To participate, member companies and their staff posted on social media channels with the…
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI), the trade association for the U.S. cleaning product supply chain, welcomed Jessica Ek as Director, Digital Communications. This is a new position within the organization.
Ms. Ek joins ACI (cleaninginstitute.org) after 10 years with the American Nurses Association, where she most recently served as Manager, Social Media Engagement.
"As ACI speaks to multiple audiences about the safety, benefits and sustainability of…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named the American Cleaning Institute (ACI), the trade association for the U.S. cleaning product supply chain, as a Safer Choice Partner of the Year. This honor is ACI’s fifth recognition as a Safer Choice Partner of the Year.
EPA’s Safer Choice helps consumers, businesses and purchasers find products that perform and contain ingredients that are safer for human health and the environment.
Throughout 2023, ACI…
Cleaning products play an essential role in daily life. They can remove dirt and stains from our clothes, dried on food from our dishes, and even germs from our hands! Let’s learn more about the chemistry that makes this happen.
What Is Cleaning?
Cleaning is the process of taking something dirty—like your kitchen counter—and removing dirt, grease, and grime found on it. When we clean, we leave things better than they were when we found them. Cleaning helps…
During National Safety Month, ACI Urges Parents to Store Liquid Laundry Packets in Their Original Packaging, Developed to Help Deter Accidental Poisonings
During the pandemic, with many Americans wanting to beautify the homes they were spending so much time in, laundry room makeovers became a more popular trend – and there are no signs of it letting up. As National Safety Month gets underway, the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) is reminding everyone not to forget the common-sense steps we…
The American Cleaning Institute is launching a strategic partnership with national nonprofits Good360 and SBP that will enhance ACI member company efforts to more efficiently and effectively contribute to disaster relief efforts.
Building on the broader philanthropic and community work ACI members have been doing regularly for many years, this partnership benefits ACI members by providing opportunities for purposeful and impactful giving, allowing members to maximize the impact of their…
ACI members can view this event on demand.
ACI is partnering with Fragrance Creators Association (FCA) to present a webinar on what companies need to know about the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) consumer products rulemaking and the potential impact of its fragrance-related provisions on cleaning products.
ACI and FCA will be joined by Joe Calavita and Josh Berghouse of CARB's Consumer Products Implementation Section, who will discuss CARB's…
