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Understand the language of soaps and detergents.
ALCOHOL: A class of organic compounds containing one or more hydroxyl groups. The alcohols used in light duty and liquid laundry detergents are isopropanol or ethanol (ethyl alcohol). These alcohols are used at low levels in liquid detergent formulations to control viscosity, to act as a solvent for other ingredients, and to provide resistance to low and freezing temperatures encountered in shipping, warehousing, and use. &…
Here at ACI, we have challenged our members to align their corporate climate strategy and targets with the 1.5°C ambition, which strives to reach net-zero global emissions by 2050. Across the cleaning products industry, companies are taking bold action to limit the global average temperature rise to less than 1.5°C.
IFF is taking on climate change with a multi-pronged strategy to minimize its carbon footprint and with the ambition to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040.…
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Through detailed cleaning product ingredient nomenclature and ingredient function analysis, consumer research and stakeholder engagement, ACI's Future Leaders have focused their work on how the industry can get ahead of ingredient communication issues collectively. Learn more about this work, its potential impact on the industry and closing the gap between ingredient communication and consumer understanding…
Enzymes
David A. Basketter, Francis H. Kruszewski, Sophie Mathieu, Donald Bruce Kirchner, Anthony Panepinto, Mark Fieldsend, Volker Siegert, Fiona Barnes, Robert Bookstaff, Merete Simonsen and Beth Concoby
2015
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) has enhanced and expanded its “Exploration Clean” online experience to further help teach middle-school students the science and chemistry behind cleaning. New features include:
A new, interactive surfactant game – "Get the Dirt"
Updated Science of Soap ebook
Ingredients reimagined as Characters of the Cleaning Court
This site relaunch is the next step in building educational modules for…
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) submitted comments to the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) urging the use of the best available science for the agency’s First Public Review Draft - Public Health Goal (PHG) for 1,4-Dioxane in Drinking Water.ACI emphasized that OEHHA’s proposed cancer safety goal of 0.04 ppb is based on studies and an approach that doesn’t line up with the wider international scientific consensus on how the chemical can…
Washington, D.C. – July 24, 2018 – James Kim, Ph.D., DABT, M.H.S., a toxicologist with extensive scientific and research experience in the public, private and academic sectors, has joined the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) as Associate Vice President, Science & Regulatory Affairs.
Dr. Kim most recently served as toxicologist with the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Statistical and Science…
Association Will More Sharply Focus on Accelerating Supply Chain’s Growth, Game Changing Advancements, Says Melissa Hockstad
ACI Convention “State of the Association” Previews ACI Commitments on Advocacy, Science, Sustainability and Outreach Efforts
The cleaning product supply chain “will remain essential and resilient even in the storm of a roller coaster economy,” according to the President and CEO of the American Cleaning Institute.
Melissa Hockstad, in presenting her…