The Care and Cleaning of Stainless
Types of Cleaners and Their Functions
Depending on the type of soil, there are various kinds of cleaning agents; although most of them fall into
two rather broad categories: substances and degreasers.
Detergents are usually water soluble, alkaline substances, or soaps of proven cleansing properties.
Degreasers are commonly organic solvents with the ability to readily dissolve oils, greases and waxes. Each
must dry readily without residue and not interfere with subsequent activities.
Within groups there are often synergistic effects which produce solutions that have improved cleaning or
degreasing effects over individual substances.
Detergents and degreasers are seldom used together, but consecutively. Many of the substances are complicated
proprietary mixtures of a number of chemicals, so care should be taken to obtain them from reputable
suppliers.
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