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2. How To Use Borax In Laundry For Fresher, Brighter Clothes - AOL

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   Presoak for Color Rejuvenation & Freshness. If you need to brighten your clothes, especially white garments, pull out a bucket and pour in 1/2 cup of borax for one gallon of water. Then, dunk the ...

3. Dishwashing liquid - Wikipedia

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   Dishwashing liquid (washing-up liquid in British English), also known as dishwashing soap, dish detergent, or dish soap, is a detergent used in dishwashing. Dishwashing detergent for dishwashers comes in various forms such as cartridges, gels, liquids, packs, powder, and tablets. [1] It is usually a highly- foamy mixture of surfactants with low ...

4. Cleaning agent - Wikipedia

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   Using a mix of acidic vinegar and soap to clean a plastic surface. Cleaning agents or hard-surface cleaners are substances (usually liquids, powders, sprays, or granules) used to remove dirt, including dust, stains, foul odors, and clutter on surfaces. [1] Purposes of cleaning agents include health, beauty, removing offensive odors, and ...

5. 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 being the alkylbenzene sulfonates, which are soap-like compounds that are more soluble in hard water, because the polar sulfonate (of detergents) is less likely than the polar carboxylate (of soap) to bind to ...

6. Sodium hypochlorite - Wikipedia

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   Household bleach sold for use in laundering clothes is a 3–8% solution of sodium hypochlorite at the time of manufacture. Strength varies from one formulation to another and gradually decreases with long storage. Sodium hydroxide is usually added in small amounts to household bleach to slow down the decomposition of NaClO. [10]

7. Laundry detergent - Wikipedia

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   Liquid laundry detergents in a Chinese supermarket, April 2020. Laundry detergent is a type of detergent (cleaning agent) used for cleaning dirty laundry (clothes). Laundry detergent is manufactured in powder (washing powder) and liquid form. While powdered and liquid detergents hold roughly equal share of the worldwide laundry detergent market ...

8. Sodium perborate - Wikipedia

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   It is a less aggressive bleach than sodium hypochlorite and other chlorine-based bleaches, causing less degradation to dyes and textiles. Borates also have some non-oxidative bleaching properties. [citation needed] Sodium perborate releases oxygen rapidly at temperatures over 60 °C.

9. Persil - Wikipedia

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   During the washing process, oxygenated perborate forms small bubbles, doing the "work of the washboard"—saving consumers time and rendering the historic method of "sun-bleaching" (by laying clothes out in the sun) unnecessary. [1] Persil was the first commercially available laundry detergent that combined bleach with the detergent.