This is a list of cleaning products and agents. Cleaning agents are substances (usually liquids, powders, sprays, or granules) used to remove dirt, including dust, stains, bad smells, and clutter on surfaces. Purposes of cleaning agents include health, beauty, removing offensive odor, and avoiding the spread of dirt and contaminants to oneself and others.
Cleaning products
Air freshener Automatic deodorizer dispenser Ajax (cleaning product) Arm & Hammer (brand) Bar Keepers Friend Bath brick – patented in 1823, it was a predecessor of the scouring pad used for cleaning and polishing Behold Biological detergent Blanco (compound) Bluing (fabric) Bon Ami Borax Brillo Pad Bronze wool 2-Butoxyethanol Calcium Lime Rust Cif Cleret Glass Cleaner Colour Catcher Comet (cleanser) Denture cleaner Descaling agent Detergent Didi Seven Dishwashing liquid Dispensing ball Disposable towel Dolly blue Domestos Donkey stone Drano Dryer ball Dust-Off Ecover Endust Fabric softener Fairy (brand) Falcon Safety Products Bon Ami Company Febreze Finish (detergent) Formula 409 Frosch USA Gas duster Glade (brand) Guar hydroxypropyltrimonium chloride Hard-surface cleaner – a category of cleaning agents comprising mainly aqueous solutions of specialty chemicals Hillyard, Inc. Laundry ball Lestoil – a heavy-duty multi-purpose cleanser product Liquid-Plumr Monkey Brand – a soap introduced in the 1880s as a household scouring and polishing soap, in cake/bar form Mr Sheen Mrs. Stewart's Bluing – a brand of fabric bluing agent first marketed in 1883 that whitens fabrics with a proprietary blue dye, primarily made of blue iron powder Murphy Oil Soap OxiClean Paper towel Phisoderm Piranha solution ReNu Retr0bright Rozalex Rubbing alcohol Seventh Generation Inc. Saddle soap Scotch-Brite Scouring pad Shake n' Vac Shoe polish Esquire Shoe Polish Kiwi (shoe polish) Shinola Wren's Super Wax Shoe Polish Simple Green Snuggle S.O.S Soap Pad Soap Soap on a rope Soap substitute Sodium bisulfate Sodium hydroxide Sodium polycarboxylate Spic and Span Spiffits Sponge (material) Steel wool Surf (detergent) Swarfega – a brand of heavy-duty hand cleaner Tawashi Toilet cleaner Sani Flush Toilet Duck Toilet rim block Urinal deodorizer block V-Bor Vegetable wash Vim (cleaning product) Yucca glauca
Brands
20 Mule Team Borax 2000 Flushes Ariel (detergent) Bosisto's Bounty (brand) Brasso Calgon Cascade (brand) Cheer (brand) Chore Boy Cillit Bang Clorox Armor All Formula 409 Lestoil Liquid-Plumr Pine-Sol S.O.S Soap Pad Comfort (fabric softener) Dawn (brand) Dettol (brand) Downy Fels-Naptha Frosch USA Glass Plus Gold Dust washing powder Harpic Joy (dishwashing liquid) Lysol Leifheit Mr Muscle Mr Sheen Mr. Clean Palmolive (brand) Pledge (brand) Purell Purex (laundry detergent) Rinso Scrub Daddy Scrubbing Bubbles Suavitel Supamop Swiffer Tide (brand) Ty-D-Bol Vanish (brand) Vileda Windex Woolite
Disinfectants
Disinfectants are antimicrobial agents that are applied to the surface of non-living objects to destroy microorganisms that are living on the objects.
Air sanitizer Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces Barbicide Barium borate BCDMH Behentrimonium chloride Benzethonium chloride Benzododecinium bromide Bleach Bromine monochloride Calcium oxide Calcium peroxide Carbethopendecinium bromide Carbol fuchsin Carbolic soap Chlorhexidine Chlorine dioxide 2-Chlorophenol Creolin Cresolene Crystal violet DBDMH Diazolidinyl urea Electrolysed water Ethanol Eucalyptus oil Fuchsine Germicidal lamp Gluma Glutaraldehyde Hand sanitizer Hexachlorocyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-one Hydrogen peroxide Hypochlorous acid Hypomide Imidazolidinyl urea Iodophor Isopropyl alcohol Jeyes Fluid – a brand of disinfectant fluid Lapyrium Lithium hypochlorite Lugol's iodine Magnesium monoperoxyphthalate Methyl violet Milton sterilizing fluid Nitromersol Ozone Peracetic acid Phenols Pine oil Polyaminopropyl biguanide Potassium hypochlorite Potassium permanganate Povidone-iodine Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quaternary ammonium cation Sodium dichloroisocyanurate Sodium hypochlorite Sodium metabisulfite Sodium permanganate Thymol Tincture of iodine 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol Vaporized hydrogen peroxide Virkon – a multi-purpose disinfectant product Wet wipe
Laundry detergents Laundry detergent, or washing powder, is a type of detergent (cleaning agent) that is added for cleaning laundry.
Annette's Perfect Cleanser Company – was a 1930s era firm which manufactured a dry powder which was useful for removing spots and stains from clothing Ariel (detergent) Biz (detergent) Bold (detergent) Breeze detergent Cheer (brand) Cold Power Colour Catcher Dash (detergent) Daz (laundry detergent) Didi Seven Dreft Fresh Start (detergent) Gain (detergent) Ghari Detergent Laundry detergent pod Luvil Nirma Oxydol Persil Persil Power Purex (laundry detergent) Rinso Sunlight (cleaning product) Surf (detergent) Surf Excel Tide (brand) Tolypers Wheel (detergent) WIN (detergent) Wisk – discontinued in 2016 Woolite
Soaps
In chemistry, a soap is a salt of a fatty acid. Household uses for soaps include washing, bathing, and other types of housekeeping, where soaps act as surfactants, emulsifying oils to enable them to be carried away by water.
African black soap Aleppo soap Antibacterial soap Azul e branco soap Carbolic soap Castile soap Cuticura soap Glycerin soap Gossage Hard soap Lye Marseille soap Nabulsi soap Phisoderm Popish soap Rebatching Resin soap Saltwater soap Shaving soap Sodium stearate Stainless steel soap Sugar soap Vegan soap
Soap brands
Ach. Brito Biechele Soap Boraxo Camay Caswell-Massey Chandrika (soap) Coast (soap) Defense Soap Dial (soap) Dove (toiletries) Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps Faso soap Fels-Naptha Fenjal Godrej Consumer Products Limited Hamam (soap) Imperial Leather Irish Spring Ivory (soap) Joy (dishwashing liquid) Kerala Soaps L'Amande Lano (soap) Lava (soap) Lever 2000 Lifebuoy (soap) Liril Lux (soap) Margo (soap) Medimix Mysore Sandal Soap Nivea Old Spice Palmolive (brand) Pears (soap) Proraso Rozalex Sapolio Sebamed Shower Shock Simple Skincare Sunlight (cleaning product) Swan Soap Swarfega Wright's Coal Tar Soap Zest (brand)
See also
Automatic soap dispenser William E. Corbin – inventor of Nibroc paper towels Environmental impact of cleaning agents Green cleaning International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients List of cleaning companies Saponification Soap dispenser Surfactant Terminal cleaning UK Cleaning Products Industry Association
References
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