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The environmental push to remove water from cleaning products
The first ingredient in most cleaning products is water. In some cases, water makes up more than 90% of household cleaners, like detergent, floor cleaner, and shampoo.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 1 min readThe first ingredient in most cleaning products is water. In some cases, water makes up more than 90% of household cleaners, like detergent, floor cleaner, and shampoo. By selling cleaners without all that water and distilling them to just their active ingredients, perhaps people will use less plastic. That’s the idea behind a growing environmental push to sell more waterless products.
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