The American Cleaning Institute offers tips to help you understand how to use the newest laundry product that is appearing on the shelves where you shop! The new single unit dose is easy to use – but as always, ACI wants to help you use them properly.

It’s easy to relax over the summer months with the sound of the ocean and unplanned days but vacation isn’t the time to be under the weather. Whether you are a parent, babysitter, teacher, health care professional or grandparent – we all need to do our part to help others keep their hands clean even when we are on vacation!

Researchers honored by the American Cleaning Institute have identified a group of surfactants that are highly effective in acid cleaning formulations in preventing the corrosion of steel surfaces. ACI recognizes the Best Paper published during the previous year in the Journal of Surfactants & Detergents; the award was presented at the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS) 103rd Annual Meeting. ​

Research that shows how glycerol – a syrupy and sweet-tasting chemical by-product – can be used as a sustainable solvent in industrial cleaning applications is being honored with the 2012 Glycerine Innovation Award. The yearly honor is sponsored by the American Cleaning Institute and the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) and is presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS).​

Six students from Susanville, California decided to act up in school – as part of a local campaign to teach handwashing to their fellow classmates and the community at-large. That effort is now being recognized nationally by the “Healthy Schools, Healthy People: It’s a SNAP” program (www.itsasnap.org), a joint initiative of the American Cleaning Institute® and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).