Chemspec-Europe believes that its time to re-think carpet cleaning. Detergent Free Cleaning means that all you have learnt about pH, surfactants and different products for different systems are a thing of the past.

DFC is a new category of speciality cleaners that change the rules in manufacturing and using cleaning products. Most existing products, including environmentally preferable cleaners, contain ingredients not natural to our environment and that have known or suspected harmful effects. Although environmentally preferable products try to either reduce or eliminate most toxic ingredients, they still leave us and the environment exposed to unnatural effects.

DFC changes all previous thinking by using only ingredients that are listed as generally safe for consumption by the Food Standards Agency. In other words, natural basic ingredients we consume every day in our diet. Surfactants - natural or otherwise - can have a detrimental effect on the environment and have in the past been an essential tool for cleaning, but DFC means we no longer need them. Chemically sensitive individuals need not worry about this range of products, which use nothing more severe than heat to attack severe soiling levels. But do they clean? If they didn’t work well there would be nothing revolutionary about Chemspec’s new development. As it is they work very well even on severe soil and have been tried and tested by many of the industry’s most experienced carpet cleaners.

Do they cost more? No they don’t is the simple answer. Last year we were beginning to see a trend in some areas of Europe towards so called 'micro splitters'. Several customers have asked Chemspec Europe if it is familiar with them and how it rates them. It was made aware of them at the Interclean exhibition in Amsterdam 2004 by the creator of the term - Gunter Glockner. He told Chemspec: “The expression ‘micro splitter’ is a marketing term to make the products stand out from the rest.”

His product formulas focus on cleaning with mostly phosphates rather than surfactants. Needless to say Chemspec had considered this formulation idea some time ago but took a decision not to pursue the project. For those cleaners who like to use such products then Chemspec has taken the technology to the next level, the same surfactant free concept but it has considered the aquatic environment as well as human health. In doing so it removed the phosphates and the surfactants!

Another first for Chemspec.

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