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Hate disposable plastic bottles? If my Facebook ads are anything to go by, you're not alone. You may have seen some ads online for eco-friendly cleaning products that save waste by shipping you powders or concentrates. Why pay money to ship water all the way to your home when it comes out of a tap? You can add the water at home. Just store a box of powders in your cupboard and you're set for a year! Positive press coverage and the zero-waste movement might also convince us to try concentrated cleaning products.
My wife and I bought a starter pack from one of these companies this year. We were intrigued at the premise and wanted to give it a try. But when we looked at the ingredients, we realized: the core premise just didn't add up.
This is because, at the end of the day, no matter how many bottles you end up with, they'll only send you one kind of cleaning product. Why is this? It's all because of chemistry.
When you clean something, whether it's a surface, an object, or yourself, you are trying to remove some soils ' bad things like dirt and stains ' and leave the good stuff behind (like the dyes in your clothes, or the glaze on your bathroom tiles). There are a bunch of different ways to do this, and many cleaning products use multiple techniques.
You may notice that a lot of the products above can already be bought in solid (often powdered) form! So what's special about these new, fancy concentrated cleaners? The pitch is that they can replace the liquid cleaners you use around the house.
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So maybe they send you one of each of the categories of cleaners above, right? Unfortunately, most of these cleaners either aren't diluted with water in the first place, or are diluted for a very good reason!
Let's go through our list.
This leaves surfactants, which of course can be found in solid form (like bar soap) but often are sold as pre-diluted liquids. And indeed, if you buy one of these cleaning kits, every product you get will be primarily a surfactant. For instance, all three of the household cleaners we got from Blueland ' the bathroom cleaner, the glass cleaner, and the all-purpose cleaner ' used sodium alkyl sulfates as their active ingredient.
What's wrong with that, you may ask? Don't they work? They do ' but there's a reason we have so many cleaning techniques in our toolbox. For instance, surfactants tend to leave streaks on glass. To get a streak-free shine, we want something that will evaporate, like ammonia, acetic acid, or alcohol ' but if you can ship it as a powder, it definitely won't evaporate. Or let's say you want to remove soap scum. Soap scum is made out of surfactants! What you want is a product that will break it down chemically, like an acid. And surfactants will do nothing on inorganic soils like rust, scale, or calcium deposits. So you may want to think twice before replacing your bathroom cleaner (bleach+mechanical), glass cleaner (base+solvent), or toilet bowl cleaner (acid) ' these each have powers that concentrated cleaners inherently can't replace. Plenty of work goes into formulating good surfactant-based cleaning products, and additives like enzymes and chelating agents can help, but they still do more or less one thing.
What are you buying at the end of the day? A decent all-purpose cleaner and some spray bottles. And all I can say is, I hope your spray bottles are better than the ones we got.
So what should you do instead?
I want to make it abundantly clear that I'm just some guy with opinions and I have no professional knowledge of cleaning products. I just use them! If you have actual knowledge, especially if you are a formulation chemist who works in this field, please get in touch ' and please write your own piece, because the Internet needs more information about how cleaning products actually work, and I am the wrong person to provide it.
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