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Joy was an early example of a product being reformulated to include the fragrance of lemons and helped begin the overall trend toward citrus-scented cleaning products. [ citation needed ] Joy is designed for use in the hand washing of dishes, not automatic dishwashers , and as such also contains emollients designed to protect the user's hands ...
A manual-styled squeezer is used to separate citrus' juice from its pulp. Squeezers are used for squeezing juice from citrus such as grapefruits , lemons , limes , and oranges . [ 5 ] Juice is extracted by pressing or grinding a halved citrus along a juicer's ridged conical center and discarding the rind.
Stride is a brand of sugar-free chewing gum introduced in 2006 and owned by Mondelez International, sold in packs of 14 pieces. The company sold most of its chewing gum brands to Perfetti Van Melle in 2023, which did not include the sale of Stride, to focus on other confections.
Citric acid is used with sodium bicarbonate in a wide range of effervescent formulae, both for ingestion (e.g., powders and tablets) and for personal care (e.g., bath salts, bath bombs, and cleaning of grease). Citric acid sold in a dry powdered form is commonly sold in markets and groceries as "sour salt", due to its physical resemblance to ...
Pine-Sol is a registered trade name of the Clorox Company for a line of household cleaning products, used to clean grease and heavy soil stains. Pine-Sol was based on pine oil when it was created in 1929 and during its rise to national popularity in the 1950s. [3]
TSP is still sold and used as a cleaning agent, but since the late 1960s, its use has diminished in the United States and many other parts of the world because, like many phosphate-based cleaners, it is known to cause extensive eutrophication of lakes and rivers once it enters a water system.
The modern cleaner was invented by housewives Elizabeth "Bet" MacDonald and Naomi Stenglein in Saginaw, Michigan in 1933. [ citation needed ] Their formula included equal parts of ground-up glue , sodium carbonate , and trisodium phosphate ; though trisodium phosphate is no longer part of the modern formula out of a concern for environmental ...
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 ...