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- Title
Journey From Synthetic Cleaning Agents to Green Cleaning Agents-Review.
- Authors
Saha, Sudipta; Dutta, Priya
- Abstract
Cleaning reagents are a common substance in every household and are used in everyday lives especially after the outbreak of COVID-19 around the world. This has been a part of households for hundreds of years. It is essential to remove dirt and germ not only from the clothes but also from the human skin. It is also used to remove stains, dust or unpleasant odor from the body and the clothes. These are available in various forms such as powders, granules, liquids and sprays. Cleaning reagents are generally manufactured by two ways that is using naturally available ingredients and the other is through using synthetic materials. Most frequently used synthetic cleaning agents are soaps, detergents, body cleansers etc. Soap water or detergent water which is non-biodegradable as well as toxic by nature is generally directly disposed through sewage lines thus adversely affecting the environment. So, it becomes necessary to replace these harmful cleaning reagents with the greener ones to reduce the harmful influence on the environment. Some of the green cleaning reagents are natural soaps, homemade products such as baking soda, lemon juice etc., vegetable oils and plant and fruit extracts, HNT, microbial cleaning, bio surfactants, plants-based surfactants. This review article aims to focus on the greener cleaning reagents which can be great alternatives comparatively to the present harmful cleaning reagent for the better effect on the environment and for human safety.
- Subjects
CLEANING; COVID-19 pandemic; SODIUM bicarbonate; LEMON juice; BIOSURFACTANTS
- Publication
Mapana Journal of Sciences, 2023, Vol 22, Issue 3, p25
- ISSN
0975-3303
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12723/mjs.66.2