Shower cleaners

Cleaning products are used regularly in most households These include dishwashing detergents, denture cleaners, toilet bowl cleaners, oven cleaners, drain cleaners, wood and metal cleaners and polishes, tub, tile, and shower cleaners, bleach and pool chemicals. Toxic chemicals contained in household cleaners include glycol ethers, aliphatic hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, surfactants, and heavy metals J32l... 

Rouhi, M., Shower cleaners. Chemical and Engineering News, American Chemical Society, 79(49), December, 2001, p. 39. 

The perfumes consist of raw fragrances dissolved in aqueous ethanol. Functional products are in a different group, comprising detergents, shampoos, shower gels, and oven cleaners. Functional products have an elaborated chemically-reactive matrix that does not allow using traditional fragrances recourse is made to inexpensive, chemically inert, odoriferous materials. 

White noise—Make your own white noise with fans, vacuum cleaners, portable vacuums, electric toothbrushes, bathroom fans, electric razors, or, to save electricity, recordings of them. Fish tanks that bubble, loud clocks, and metronomes have also worked. Tape-record the sound of a shower or water running from a faucet. The repetitive monotony of these noises mimics the sounds of the womb and can soothe a baby for whom a silent room might feel unnaturally quiet. 

In a similar vein (although not precisely soil prevention) is a toilet bowl cleaner meant to be used daily and allowed to sit for as long as overnight [379], In some senses this is similar to the shower rinse products, meant to be used daily to prevent the buildup of soil. The examples in patents are given both as acid and alkaline. 

Uses Surfactant for mild personal care prods, (shampoos, shower gels, foam baths, other low-irritation formulations) surfactant for industrial applies, (agrochems., textile treatment) detergent for carpet cleaners esp. aerosols... 

Because ether sulfates are good foam-forming substances and also possess good solubilities in hard water they are used in many liquid formulations. In particular, they are used in cosmetic products like body cleansing lotions, shampoos and shower gels. They are also part of many liquid household cleaners and dishwashing agents. 

Hard-surface cleaners are those products that are formulated to be used for household cleaning by consumers. For the purposes of this discussion, products used only in industrial and institutional cleaning of hard surfaces will not be included. (The topic of institutional and industrial cleaners is covered in a separate chapter of this book.) These I I cleaners can be quite similar to household cleaners, as they are often used on the same soil/surface combinations (e.g., soap scum on tile in a hotel shower), but the l l field is also larger than household cleaners, as it can also include dish sanitizers, metal cleaners, and malodor treatments. 

Most specialty cleaners come as water-based liqnid formnlations, althongh there are exceptions. Drain cleaners now have liqnid as well as powder forms. Antomatic toilet bowl cleaners come both as liqnids in elaborate dosing containers and as solid blocks or pncks. Oven cleaners tend to come as aerosols or liqnid sprays. Most of the bathroom cleaners, shower treatments, toilet-bowl cleaners, mildew removers, and the like are liqnids. 

Another major category of specialty cleaner is mildew cleaners. Mildew is largely a problem in the bathroom, but it can occur in trash cans, refrigerators, and otha kitchen surfaces. The main focus of mildew cleaners tends to be their use in the bathroom, especially in the shower enclosure. Mildew cleaners are a subset of the general category of bleach cleaners, which were discussed in a previous chapter. 

Soap scum cleaners are by far the largest group of bathroom cleaners. Soap scum is a prevalent problem in almost any bathroom. Hard water deposits are more of a problem in very hard waters area such as Europe, but the precipitatiou of soap caused by hard water salts can become a problem even in areas with moderate hard water. This tends to be less of a problem in households that use shower gels or synthetic detergent (syndet) bars, because the detergents used in these products are... 

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