Carpet Cleaner

FOUND IN Detergents, disinfectants, carpet cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, and air fresheners... 

Many other home products contain and give off formaldehyde although the amount has not been carefully measured. These products include household cleaners, carpet cleaners, disinfectants, cosmetics, medicines, fabric softeners, glues, lacquers, and antiseptics. You may also breath formaldehyde if you use unvented gas or kerosene heaters indoors or if you or someone else smokes a cigar, cigarette, or pipe indoors. The amormt of formaldehyde in mobile homes is usually higher than it is in conventional homes because of their lower air turnover. 

Formaldehyde is found in small amounts in many consumer products including antiseptics, medicines, dish-washing liquids, fabric softeners, shoe-care agents, carpet cleaners, glues, adhesives, and lacquers. If you or a member of your family uses these products, providing fresh outdoor air when you use them, this will reduce your exposure to formaldehyde. Some cosmetics, such as nail hardeners, have very high levels of formaldehyde. If you do not use these products in a small room, or if you have plenty of ventilation when you use them, you will reduce your exposure to formaldehyde. If your children are not in the room when you use these products, you will also reduce their exposure to formaldehyde. 

In the home, fonnaldehyde sources include household chemicals, pressed wood products (especially when new) (EPA 1996), combustion sources (NRC 1986), and some new fabrics (Schorr et al. 1974) and garments. A number of common household products may release formaldehyde to indoor air, including antiseptics, medicines, dish-washing liquids, fabric softeners, shoe-care agents, carpet cleaners, glues, adhesives, and lacquers (Kelly et al. 1996). If children use or play with some of these products, or are present when they are used, additional exposure to formaldehyde may occur. Many cosmetic products contain formaldehyde and some, such as nail polish and nail hardeners, contain high levels (Kelly et al. 1996). If children place these products in their mouth or on their skin, or sniff them, they will be exposed to elevated levels of formaldehyde. 

New carpets have been found to release formaldehyde (Hodgson et al. 1993). Older carpets, especially wall-to-wall carpets, have been found to be a sink for formaldehyde if there are other indoor sources (Norback et al. 1995). In addition, some carpet cleaners may contain formaldehyde. Infants may be exposed to formaldehyde while crawling on carpets or on newly cleaned carpets (lARC 1982 WHO 1989). Similarly, young children may be exposed while sitting or playing on indoor carpeting. 

Household hard surface cleaners are defined in this discussion as formulations, powder or liquid, used to clean hard surfaces in the home, excluding dishes. Therefore, cleaners used on soft surfaces in the home — upholstery and carpet cleaners, fabric stain cleaners, etc. — are not discussed here. Also excluded from this discussion are household products that are used primarily as treatments rather than cleaners per se — polishes, floor waxes, tarnish removers, and drain cleaners (decloggers). Also not included are air fresheners, which are not... 

Dehypon. [Henkel/Emery Henkel Canada Hentel KGaA] Ethoxylated, prqwxylated fotty alcohols detergent, wetting agent, emulsifier, dispersant for industrial deaners, carpet cleaners. 

Shield Carpet Care. [Huntii ton Labs] Carpet cleaners. 

Read and understand the label. Avoid cleaning products (disinfectants, bleaches, aerosols, carpet cleaners) that contain harmful chemicals. 

OTHER COMMENTS used in the preparation of quaternary ammonium compounds ingredient of photographic development accelerator, for drying of printing inks, and in carpet cleaners used as a corrosion inhibitor and as an accelerator for rubber used as a catalytic solvent in chemical synthesis also used in the desalination of seawater use in non-nutritive sweeteners, ketenes, and salts. 

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