Posted on 07/09/2023 6:39:45 AM PDT by Lmo56
Saw an ad for an eco-friendly cleaning product on Fox News yesterday. I meant to check it out online, but got waylaid with other things. I cannot remember the name of the product. Does anyone know what it is?
Also, is this product any good?
No, I use generic Windex, CLR, Comet, or Greased Lightning for cleaning. Greased Lightning is my favorite. Gets out any stain1
Water? You mean like in the toilet?
Ammonia, like other strong bases, chemically reacts with fats and oils to form soap ... which, of course, dissolves very nicely in water. The reaction is called "saponification".
Soaps and detergents emulsify fats and oils, bases convert them to soap.
Ammonia is a very useful cleaner in the kitchen.
Yes that is how the grease is solubilized into water- conversion to an emulsion by a base into a water soluble soap to be carried away. Like Dawn de-greaser a powerful surfactant. One could degrease a car engine with Dawn and hot pressure washer water.
Milk is an example of an emulsion of fats surrounded by emulsifiers.
In human blood,hydrophobic lipids (fat) from absorbed digested foods and oils, is carried to the tissues, surrounded by a phospholipid outer shell with the hydrophilic portions of the phospholipid oriented outward toward the surrounding aqueous fluid- another kind of emulsion in biology. An essential emulstion, each particle type carrying different densities in a constantly reacting changing exchange of particle contents.
Eco friendly has a catchy ad line. But is of no significance except perhaps water solubility. Can’t use brake parts cleaner petrochemicals to clean greasy dishes— you could but the fumes and flammability not desirable.
Vinegar or peroxide in a baking soda paste make great cleaners.
Vinegar is an acid. Baking soda is a base. When you mix them together CO2 is released and a salt is left behind. If the balance is just right, the solution will be neutral, neither acid or base. Otherwise, the remaining solution will be either an acid or a base, and salty.
This is chemistry. It can't be avoided.
Is it the “Earth Breeze” laundry detergent sheets?
My wife tried something similar back several months ago, and it would sometimes leave a chunky residue.
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