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  • Help my multipurpose detrgent smells bad

    Posted by EngineerAMANAUEL on February 9, 2021 at 1:09 pm

    I am currently producing multipurpose detergent,but unfortunately my worker’s made mistake of storing the produced multipurpose detrgent in unwashed storage tanker, it smells really bad can I fix the smell please help me.

    EngineerAMANAUEL replied 3 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Farrukh

    Member
    February 9, 2021 at 1:20 pm

    Change storage tank maybe it’s unwashed storage tank bad smells if bad smells persist then use formaldehyde ihope it’s bad odour go away

  • EngineerAMANAUEL

    Member
    February 9, 2021 at 1:45 pm

    Farrukh said:

    Change storage tank maybe it’s unwashed storage tank bad smells if bad smells persist then use formaldehyde ihope it’s bad odour go away

    Thank you for your response,, I tried formaldehyde but it still smell bad.

  • Farrukh

    Member
    February 9, 2021 at 9:42 pm

    Would you like to share your formulation

  • Abdullah

    Member
    February 10, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    @EngineerAMANAUEL 
    It may be contaminated with microbes. Is your preservative strong enough?
    What was in the unwashed tank? 

  • EngineerAMANAUEL

    Member
    February 11, 2021 at 3:45 am

    Abdullah said:

    @EngineerAMANAUEL 
    It may be contaminated with microbes. Is your preservative strong enough?
    What was in the unwashed tank? 

    It was dish wash tanker they stored multipurpose  with out washing it.

  • Microformulation

    Member
    February 12, 2021 at 4:11 pm

    Good manufacturing practices would ultimately dictate that you discard the entire batch. There really is no way around that. Some mistakes are costly.

  • EngineerAMANAUEL

    Member
    February 15, 2021 at 2:47 pm

    Good manufacturing practices would ultimately dictate that you discard the entire batch. There really is no way around that. Some mistakes are costly.

    Ok if we don’t have any options that’s what we are planning to do.thank you for the feed back.

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