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How Soap Is Made
Soap, our first line of defense against harmful germs, actually hasn’t changed much in thousands of years. What may surprise you, though, is that a lot of what we call “soap” today isn’t soap at all.
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Alkyl_Sulfates_SIAR.pdf
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/…
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Assessment of the environmental risk of long-chain aliphatic alcohols
Surfactants Belanger, S.E., H. Sanderson, P.R. Fisk, C. Schäfers, S.M. Mudge, A. Willing, Y. Kasai, A.M. Nielsen, S.D. Dyer and R. Toy 2008
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Occurrence and weight-of-evidence risk assessment of alkyl sulfates, alkyl ethoxysulfates, and linear alkyl benzene sulfonates (LAS) in river water and sediments
Surfactants Sanderson, Hans, Scott D. Dyer, Bradford B. Price, Allen M. Nielsen, Remi van Compernolle, Martin Selby, Kathleen Stanton, Alex Evans, Michael Ciarlo and Richard Sedlak 2006
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Researchers Unlock the Mysteries of Fabric Softener Science
Kao Corporation Scientists Honored With ACI Distinguished Paper Award Research Article Recognized as Best 2016 Paper in Journal of Surfactants & Detergents Millions of consumers love the "softness" of their clothing after using liquid fabric softeners. Scientists from the Kao Corporation in Japan have unlocked the mechanism describing how these products work effectively on cloths and yarns, which could pave the way to more effective softening products. Their research was…
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An overview of hazard and risk assessment of the OECD high production volume chemical category- Long chain alcohols [C6-C22] (LCOH)
Surfactants Sanderson, H., S.E. Belanger, P.R. Fisk, C. Schäfers, G. Veenstra, A.M. Nielsen, Y. Kasai, A. Willing, S.D. Dyer, K. Stanton and R. Sedlak 2008
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Environmental properties of long-chain alcohols, Part 2: Structure activity relationship for chronic aquatic toxicity of long-chain alcohols
Surfactants C. Schäfers, S.E. Belanger, H. Sanderson, S.D. Dyer, A.M. Nielsen, A. Willing, K. Gamon, Y. Kasai, C.V. Eadsforth, P.R. Fisk and A.E. Girlin 2009
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ACI Presents: Circular Action Alliance: Extended Producer Responsibility in the U.S.
This is a members only event. In this webinar, CAA will outline what work they have done in the current states they have been appointed, their plans for 2024, and what they see for the future in the US. Thu, 04/11/2024 - 13:00 Thu, 04/11/2024 - 14:30
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New Research Reviews Measurement Methods for 1,4-Dioxane
Findings provide a baseline for robust long-term assessment of 1,4-dioxane in commercial products Article published in Journal of Surfactants and Detergents A new study co-authored by the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) assesses the methodologies to measure a manufacturing byproduct that’s subject to restrictive rules in jurisdictions like New York State. Legislators there passed a law in 2020 that limits the…
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Novel Method Developed for Detecting 1,4-Dioxane in Consumer Products
Research Shows Method to be Precise, Accurate Article published in Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, co-authored by American Cleaning Institute A new study co-authored by the American Cleaning Institute is showcasing a new method to evaluate exceedingly low levels of 1,4-dioxane precisely and accurately in finished cleaning products. The research, “A novel protocol for quantitative determination of 1,4-dioxane in…
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