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The sniff test may tell you if you wore enough deodorant, but does not always work when deciding if you need to wash your clothes. What you do, the fabric type, the wear and the weather can play a deciding factor. The American Cleaning Institute offers these tips to help determine if it’s time to wash those bed sheets, jeans, shirts, socks and underwear.
Bed sheets should be washed at least every two weeks, more often if you sweat a lot at…
Video Highlights Product Benefits, Proper Safety Practices for Parents and Caregivers
A new animated video released by the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) helps consumers understand the packaging and safety innovations behind a product that helped revolutionize the common laundry routine: liquid laundry packets.
For nearly a decade, liquid laundry packets have risen in popularity by offering a simpler and more sustainable solution in the form of pre-measured packets…
Surfactants
Steven Mudge and Paul DeLeo
2012
Packets Up! Emphasizes Safe Use of Liquid Laundry Packets
Spanish Webpage Helps Reach More Families, Provides Resources for Parents
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) launched a Spanish version of the Packets Up! Webpage. Now in its eleventh year, the Packets Up! effort works to help reduce the number of unintended exposures to liquid laundry packets among children.
The new Packets Up webpage features a whiteboard video, safety clings, Store not Décor campaign, safety…
Glycerine: an overview
terms technical data
properties performance
The Soap and Detergent Association
Glycerine & Oleochemical Division
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The Soap and Detergent Association, its member companies, and others who have
assisted in the preparation of the manuscript make no warranty and assume no
liability with respect to the information contained herein.
Copyright O 1990 by The Soap and…
American Cleaning Institute (ACI) and “The Germ Guy” Jason Tetro Offer Tips on Keeping Clean, Healthy and Safe
Washing with soap and water and regular cleaning, disinfecting and laundering routines should be “front and center,” says ACI
Common sense cleaning, disinfecting and laundering practices should be front and center as the nation faces a “Triple Threat” of pandemic fatigue, cold and flu season and holiday crowds,…
Clean water is a critical element of cleaning.
The vast majority of water on Earth’s surface, over 96%, is saline water in the oceans (USGS). Which means, even though water is plentiful there are limited resources of fresh water to relay on. Beyond cleaning, we also need water to drink and to grow food. The average household may use 88,000 gallons of water per year (REU2016). Within your home, faucets and clothes washers make up a…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be on the brink of banning safe and effective products, essentially eliminating consumer choice for millions of Americans.
Every day, antibacterial soaps are used in homes, offices, schools, child care centers and many other commercial settings. Yet a recent announcement by FDA cast an unrealistically dark picture of this category of products that have been on the shelves for decades.
Specifically, FDA issued a final rule governing…
SDA Fragrance Subcommittee*
Report: lndustry Surveys
Fragrance Sensttization Test Data
By R. J. steltenfamp (colgate-Palmolive), K. A. Booman (sDA), J. Dorsky(Givaudan), K. Kohrman (Procter & Gamble), A. S. Rothenstein (Lever
Brothers), E. A. Schwoeppe (Procter & Gamble), R. l. Sedlak (SDA), and G. R.
Thompson (lFF)
ff.t he Fragrance Raw Material Subcommittee of
I the Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) wasI formed in early Ig77 to review information on
the human skin sensitization…
This monograph summarizes: 1) critical fate and effects data required for an
environmental risk assessment on dihydrogenated tallow dimethyl ammonium
chemicals (DHTDMA'), including the chloride (DHTDMAC) and the methyl
sulfate salts (DHTDMAMS); and 2) conclusions drawn from a risk
assessment of DHTDMA+ in the United States. Although focused on condi-
tions in the U.S., data from other parts of the world that are relevant to a U.S.
assessment are included in the monograph. The monograph is…