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  • Which manual dishwashing liquid will have stronger cleaning power?

    Posted by Abdullah on December 4, 2024 at 9:42 am

    Product A is a popular formula here and almost all manual dishwashing liquid has this formula here.

    Product B is my formula and it is supposed to be milder and have equal or better cleaning powder.

    Water is very hard well water

    All in active

    Product A

    Sodium labsa 10%

    SLES 7%

    NACL 2%

    pH 7

    Product B

    SLS 4.74%

    SLES 6.3%

    Cocamide DEA 1.5%

    PH 10.

    Product B has a lot of alkali and needs 3.5% citric acid to reduce pH to 7.

    Question:

    Which product will have stronger cleaning power as manual dishwashing liquid in very hard well water?

    Fekher replied 1 month, 1 week ago 2 Members · 7 Replies
  • 7 Replies
  • Fekher

    Member
    December 4, 2024 at 1:40 pm

    As written I guess A but it seems that some ingredients are missing in B

    • Abdullah

      Member
      December 4, 2024 at 1:54 pm

      What ingredients might be missing in B?

      • Fekher

        Member
        December 4, 2024 at 2:10 pm

        Ph 10 and and needs 3,5% Citric acid to drop to 7 normally it must contains not sited base.

        • Abdullah

          Member
          December 4, 2024 at 9:05 pm

          I don’t know why but my SLS powder needs a lot of acid to reduce it’s pH.

          • Fekher

            Member
            December 5, 2024 at 8:44 am

            may it contains important quantity of sodium hydroxide .

            • Abdullah

              Member
              December 5, 2024 at 9:41 pm

              It definitely has. That is why i think it should have stronger cleaning power

            • Fekher

              Member
              December 6, 2024 at 4:58 am

              at high ph it has sure the strong power from sodium hydroxide however by neutralizing the base by citric acid the power will decrease normally.

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