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How To Clean to Get Your House Ready for Sale! Tips for Getting It Buyer-Ready When a house is for sale, the goal is to make it as attractive as possible to potential buyers. The most cost-efficient way to spruce up the home is to clean it thoroughly. Here's how to clean your house from top to bottom fast. Getting Rid of Clutter Many potential buyers may not see past dirt and clutter. If the house is crowded with the owner's…
The fate of high volume personal care product chemicals (fatty alcohols) in riverine environments: the e�ect of treatment type and Eco-region RP054 Stephen M Mudge 1 & Paul C DeLeo2 INF_DEE_12 SED_WEA_16 SED_WEA_14 INF_ADA_12 INF_WEA_15 SED_DEL_14 SED_ELK_16 INF_WEA_12INF_EDM_12 INF_WIN_12SED_DEL_18 SED_DEL_16INF_STI_12 INF_DEL_12 SED_WIN_16 SED_DEL_15 INF_ELK_12 INF_STI_14 SED_WEA_22 SED_ELK_22 SED_DEL_22 SED_DEL_24 SED_WIN_26 SED_DEE_24 SED_ALL_16 SED_STR_12…
The Cold Water Saves Initiative educates about the benefits of cold water washing, a sustainable action that greatly benefits the environment with little effort on the individual’s part. What's in it for me? Save energy. Save your clothes. Save the planet. About 90% of the energy the washing machine uses goes towards heating the water. According to the Sierra Club, every household that switches to cold water washing could eliminate about…
Materiality assessments provide a comprehensive evaluation of the risks and opportunities most significant to a company’s mid- to long-term success. In 2015, ACI became one of the first organizations to perform such an analysis on an industry-wide basis. Doing so has allowed us to gain a deeper understanding of the sustainability issues that matter most to companies and stakeholders. Now we are using this…
State of: 2007-12-19 SIDS Initial Assessment Repor t For SIAM 25 16-19 October 2007, Helsinki 1. Chemical Name: Category of Alkyl sulfates, Alkane sulfonates and α-Olefin sulfonates 2. CAS Number: See Tables 1-1 and 1-2 3. Sponsor Country: Germany Contact Point: BMU (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit) Contact person: Dr. Reiner Arndt Postfach 12 06 29 D-53048 Bonn 4. Shared Partnership with: SDA / Alkylsulfate Consortium 5. Roles/…
Your home is your castle. We can help you make it sparkle! Get tips for a clean home and clean living, starting with the cleaning basics and moving on to cleaning solutions for surfaces, dishes, laundry and hands. Home Cleaning Basics What are the most important steps to keeping a home clean and healthy? This guide gets you what…
Cleaning technology has come a long way from the ancient Babylonian way of soap-making. Today’s cleaning products are the result of thoughtful design, experimentation, and safety testing.  The machines we use to clean have also improved, becoming more sustainable and friendly for our environment. So far we have been able to make new cleaning products that allow us to wash in cold water (saving energy from water heating), wash with less water, and make packaging…
What is soap and how does it work? The sudsy stuff we use every day of our lives is a mystery to most of us. But behind our cleaning products is an array of scientific data and information. This science and chemistry helps to ensure our products work and are safe for you and your family to use. The resources below will walk through what it means to be clean and how the cleaning process works. For more information and activities, we encourage you to check out…
© 2007 The Soap and Detergent Association. All Rights Reserved. Benthic Community Structure and Surfactants in the Trinity River Presented to The Soap and Detergent Association Surfactants in Sediments Task Force Prepared by University of North Texas Institute of Applied Sciences Samuel Atkinson, David Johnson, James Kennedy, Jaime Slye, and Barney Venables Final Report March 2, 2007 2 Executive Summary The…
Copyright © 2010 American Cleaning Institute 1 Fatty alcohols in the Terrestrial Environment A case study around Luray, VA Stephen M Mudge Prepared for the American Cleaning Institute Copyright © 2010 American Cleaning Institute 2 Abstract Fatty alcohols are naturally produced hydrocarbon present in all living organisms. They are also used in a series of detergent and cosmetic formulations to provide surfactant…