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professional Sodium hypoclorite is commonly used in household and professional cleaning for its bleaching and disinfecting properties. Unfortunately these are not its only properties: hypochlorite has a strong impact both on the environment and on human health, as described in this article. Therefore it is recommended to

In the consumer society, we look at the dramatic increase of products available on the market, to be chosen among countless brands and categories. How to make a choice? Let us take an example: washing-up detergents. Cheap products apparently comply with the daily need to save money.

Sometimes laundry washing by machine, even with a good detergent, may not be enough efficient in removing some stains from cotton clothes: a preliminary treatment with a specific product may be useful.  Non ecological detergents (as well as some ecological ones) do contain optical brighteners, tending to

The kitchen is important for many reasons: it is the place where food is prepared and stored; it is often where we eat it too; into a lot of houses the kitchen and the living room, where kids play and guests are received, are the same place.

In olive-oil mills, in wine cellars, in dairy farms and other artisanal production sites, the cleaning of machines and worktables may affect the quality of the products, for many reasons from the possible contamination of oil or cheese if using detergents which contain long-term toxic and lyposoluble

Among Bensos’ household detergents, various products are suitable for floor cleaning. Often customers ask which detergent to choose according to the floor type. This table describes some features, that can be useful in choosing the right product. Generally, increasing pH corresponds to higher degreasing power, dilution being

We can save Nature also avoiding to squander detergents: the overconsumption, exceeding the real cleaning needs, involves many aspects that affect environment negatively. One among them is the supplementary consumption of raw materials, packaging and energy for production. Dealing with conventional, or not enough ecological detergents and

Bensos’ laundry detergents differ from other products on the market basically for the following features: compared to most other ecological detergents, Bensos’ ones do contain neither persistent, nor long-term toxic nor allergenic substances; regarding conventional (not ecological) products, among the features the lack of optical brighteners stands,