Bathroom Cleaner

FOUND IN All-purpose cleaners, bathroom cleaners, and abrasive cleaners This carcinogen acts as an eye, skin, and lung irritant. 

Chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite) automatic dishwasher detergents, kitchen and bathroom cleaners, laundry detergent... 

Toilet bowl cleaners, like bathroom cleaners, are formulated to remove mineral deposits, principally iron salts that form an unsightly deposit at the water level. Again, acids ranging in strength from hydrochloric to citric are found in these products. 

Although grease is the main soil target, followed by particulate soil, for allpurpose cleaners they may also be tested against other nonkitchen problems such as soap scum. Soap scum testing is described in the section on bathroom cleaners. 

FIG. 13.6 Modern spray trigger packaging (a) glass and surface cleaners, (b) mold and mildew and bathroom cleaners. 

Three categories of bathroom cleaner are discussed here general bathroom cleaners, mildew removers (with some cross-over to bleach cleaners), and toilet bowl cleaners. Automatic toilet bowl cleaners are not discussed due to the dominance of solid, and not liquid, forms in this group. 

Bathroom cleaners are the predominant area where soil prevention treatments are important. There are very few kitchen or general-purpose cleaners that make claims to make general household surfaces easier to clean, although there is patent literature to that effect. However, this is a growing and increasingly important benefit in bathroom cleaning. Are bathroom surfaces that much harder to clean... 

It should be noted that bathroom cleaners, while predominately trigger spray cleaners in the U.S., and either trigger sprays or in pour out bottles in Europe, still appear as aerosol sprays in some parts of the U.S. These generally use the typical aerosol propellants [289] appropriate to the types of cleaner (alkaline, acid, or neutral). 

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