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
- Bio Pac Inc
- 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
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
- Division of Oral Health – Infection Control Glossary U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, retrieved 19 April 2016^
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