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2. Foaming agent - Wikipedia

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   A foaming agent is a material such as a surfactant or a blowing agent that facilitates the formation of foam.A surfactant, when present in small amounts, reduces surface tension of a liquid (reduces the work needed to create the foam) or increases its colloidal stability by inhibiting coalescence of bubbles. [1]

3. Soap substitute - Wikipedia

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   A soap substitute is a natural or synthetic cleaning product used in place of soap or other detergents, typically to reduce environmental impact or health harms or provide other benefits. Traditionally, soap has been made from animal or plant derived fats and has been used by humans for cleaning purposes for several thousand years. [ 1 ]

4. Laundry detergent - Wikipedia

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   Zwitterionic surfactants are rarely employed in laundry detergents mainly for cost reasons. Most detergents use a combination of various surfactants to balance their performance. Until the 1950s, soap was the predominant surfactant in laundry detergents. By the end of the 1950s so-called "synthetic detergents" (syndets) like branched ...

5. Category:Surfactants - Wikipedia

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6. Joy (dishwashing liquid) - Wikipedia

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   The brand also offers a commercial grade detergent formula, Joy Professional, which is commonly used in restaurant, hotel and other commercial settings due to its high concentration of surfactants and cleaning effectiveness. [6] Joy was introduced in Japan during the 1990s, where it became market leader for a period of time. [citation needed]

7. Detergent - Wikipedia

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   Detergents. A detergent is a surfactant or a mixture of surfactants with cleansing properties when in dilute solutions. [1] There are a large variety of detergents. A common family is the alkylbenzene sulfonates, which are soap-like compounds that are more soluble than soap in hard water, because the polar sulfonate is less likely than the polar carboxylate of soap to bind to calcium and other ...

8. Soylent (meal replacement) - Wikipedia

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   Soylent is a set of meal replacement products in powder, shake, and bar forms, produced by Soylent Nutrition, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California . Soylent is named after an industrially produced food (the name of which is a portmanteau of "soy" and "lentil") in Make Room!

9. Saponin - Wikipedia

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   The principal historical use of these plants was boiling down to make soap. Saponaria officinalis is most suited for this procedure, but other related species also work. The greatest concentration of saponin occurs during flowering, with the most saponin found in the woody stems and roots, but the leaves also contain some.