"Harpic Harpic is the brand name of a toilet bowl cleaner launched in England in the 1920s and now marketed by Reckitt Benckiser. It is currently available in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The toilet cleaning products marketed under the brand name include liquids, tablets, wipes, brush systems, toilet bowl and cistern blocks. It contains hydrochloric acid (10%) as the active ingredient, along with butyl oleylamine and others in an aqueous solution. The original toilet cleaner was invented by Harry Pickup, who was based in Roscoe Street, Scarborough, in North Yorkshire."
"when looking at the same image on the Renuzit LongLast Roommate air freshener. Dial switched to another photo for subsequent production. Renuzit Renuzit is a brand of air fresheners produced by Henkel North American Consumer Goods. The Renuzit brand once included a solvent-based spot remover and cleaner as well. Renuzit cleaning fluid was originally produced by the Radbill Oil Co. of Philadelphia in 1932, which became Renuzit Home Products Company before 1947. The company was acquired by Drackett in 1969, which had been bought by Bristol-Myers in 1965, which in turn, merged with Squibb in 1989. In 1992, Bristol-Myers Squibb"
"Drackett The Drackett Company was a leading company in the specialty chemicals business during the 20th century, responsible for such products as Windex glass cleaner, Vanish toilet bowl cleaner, Drāno drain opener, Behold furniture polish, Endust dusting aid, Renuzit air freshener, Mr. Muscle oven cleaner, and Miracle White laundry products. They also produced the O-Cedar line of brooms, mops, sponges and scrubbers. Philip Drackett, born to a Cleveland shipbuilding family in 1856, decided to cut his own swath, apprenticing to a pharmacist while in school, and opening his own Cleveland drugstore upon his marriage. He was fascinated by chemicals, though"
"Nicholas McKay (inventor) Nicholas McKay, Sr. (December 8, 1920 – November 15, 2014) was an American inventor and entrepreneur. His most well-known (and first commercial) product was the Lint Pic-Up, the world's first lint roller. McKay had the idea after needing masking tape, a paper roll and some wire to clean his suit before chaperoning his son's high school dance in 1956. He and his late wife Helen formed Helmac the next day. Helmac is a household products company that eventually held 92% of the American market in 1996. McKay credits his humble upbringing on a family farm in Ohio"
"Reckitt and Sons Reckitt and Sons was a leading British manufacturer of household products, focusing on starch, black lead, laundry blue, and household polish, and based in Kingston upon Hull. Isaac Reckitt began business in Hull in 1840, and his business became a private company ""Isaac Reckitt and Sons"" in 1879, and a public company in 1888. The company expanded through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It merged with a major competitor in the starch market J. & J. Colman in 1938 to form Reckitt & Colman Colmans' food business was subsequently divested and an merger made with"
"2010: Ingredients: Hydrochloric acid, Hydroxyethyl oleylamine, Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, Ammonium chloride, Methyl salicylate, Butylated hydroxytoluene, Acid Blue 25, Acid red 88, Deionized Water Harpic Harpic is the brand name of a toilet bowl cleaner launched in England in the 1920s and now marketed by Reckitt Benckiser. It is currently available in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The toilet cleaning products marketed under the brand name include liquids, tablets, wipes, brush systems, toilet bowl and cistern blocks. It contains hydrochloric acid (10%) as the active ingredient, along with butyl oleylamine and others in"
"Renuzit Renuzit is a brand of air fresheners produced by Henkel North American Consumer Goods. The Renuzit brand once included a solvent-based spot remover and cleaner as well. Renuzit cleaning fluid was originally produced by the Radbill Oil Co. of Philadelphia in 1932, which became Renuzit Home Products Company before 1947. The company was acquired by Drackett in 1969, which had been bought by Bristol-Myers in 1965, which in turn, merged with Squibb in 1989. In 1992, Bristol-Myers Squibb sold Drackett to S. C. Johnson & Son, at which point, the Federal Trade Commission ordered S.C. Johnson to divest itself"
"as a toilet bowl cleaner; since 1922 it had also been promoted for flushing ""rust, scale and sludge"" from automobile radiators. Advertisements from the 1920s onward depicted a housewife in an apron using the product to disinfect the bowl and remove odours; it ""cleans closet bowls without scouring"" with ""no drudgery whatsovever"". The brand was sold to American Home Products; that company's subsidiary Boyle-Midway was sold to Reckitt & Colman (now Reckitt Benckiser) in 1990. The primary direct competitor to Sani-Flush was Vanish, a brand of toilet cleaning crystals marketed in the US by the SC Johnson Company. Widely stocked"
"hair can be wiped away. Previously called ""Neet,"" the hair removal product was manufactured by Hannibal Pharmaceutical Company and registered as a US trademark in 1919 in Canada and in 1922 in the US. The trademark for Neet was then picked up by the American Home Products Corporation in 1958. Neet was then transferred to its current holder, Reckitt Benckiser (then called Reckitt & Colman (Overseas) Ltd.). The Veet name was established in 1922 in the UK. The name was used in some European countries, but was not used universally. For example, while the product was sold as Veet in"
"Kitchen"" cinnamon fragrance in 1979. It proved to be highly popular and was soon copied by competitors. Renuzit offered a cleaning solvent at one time, sold in 4-ounce steel dispenser cans similar to those used for multipurpose household oil, and in steel quart and gallon cans similar to those used for paint thinner. It was apparently a dry-cleaning fluid, believed to be Benzine based and excellent for all colorfast objects and most, if not all, plastics. It was/is a good selection to remove the sticky adhesive left behind by older labels. In 1972, a gallon retailed for approximately $2.49. At"
"Booth's horse drawn combustion engine powered ""Puffing Billy"", maybe derived from Thurman's blown air design,"" relied upon just suction with air pumped through a cloth filter and was offered as part of his cleaning services. Kenney's was a stationary 4,000 lb. steam engine powered system with pipes and hoses reaching into all parts of the building. The first vacuum-cleaning device to be portable and marketed at the domestic market was built in 1905 by Walter Griffiths, a manufacturer in Birmingham, England. His ""Griffith's Improved Vacuum Apparatus for Removing Dust from Carpets"" resembled modern-day cleaners; – it was portable, easy to"
"Rexair Rexair LLC is an American manufacturer of home cleaning systems based in Troy, Michigan. Rexair is predominately known for its production and marketing of a home cleaning system that uses water as its primary filter. Along with its corporate headquarters in Troy, Rexair also has a manufacturing facility in Cadillac, Michigan. In the early 1920s, John W. Newcombe invented a device that separated dust and particulates from the air. He called his new invention the ""Newcombe Separator"". The Newcombe Separator has a cup-shaped part at its center that spins at high speed, creating centrifugal force. Air can be pulled"
"there was a ready market for better cleaning agents. Henkel & Cie's ""self-activating"" (or self bleaching) cleaner, Persil; (introduced in 1907); the early synthetic detergent, BASF's Fewa (introduced in 1932); and Procter & Gamble's 1933 totally synthetic creation, Dreft (marketed for use on infant-wear) —all indicated significant advances in the laundry cleaning product market. The detergent business was further revolutionized with the discovery of the alkylbenzene sulfonates, which, when combined with the use of chemical ""builders"", made machine washing with hard water possible. This presented Procter and Gamble with the opportunity to create a product such as Tide. The original"
"and carpet shampoo cleaner). All the original series are based on British names. The current 2017 range are: Henry 200 (No longer available in the UK), Henry Cordless, Henry 160, Henry 240 Professional, Henry Xtra, Henry Micro, Hetty 200, Hetty 160, Hetty Cordless, Harry, James, Charles, George, Henry and Hetty Spray Mop, Jack (Tesco Exclusive, Now Discontinued), and Henry PET. Numatic have also made many vacuum cleaners differing from the 2010 range. Many of them are not sold as 2016. The Henry and Hetty vacuum cleaners have also gone beyond vacuum cleaners. They have since 2010 expanded to desktop cleaners,"
"hygiene ads among others which were ""hilarious and shocking"" in hindsight. Ownership: Lehn & Fink was acquired by Sterling Drug in 1967 and Reckitt & Colman acquired L&F in 1994 when Bayer acquired Sterling-Winthrop. As of 2015 Lysol products are distributed by Reckitt Benckiser LLC of Parsippany, New Jersey. Different Lysol products contain different active ingredients. Examples of active ingredients used in Lysol products: Lysol partners with a variety of organizations as part of the Mission for Health campaign, including: Lysol Lysol ( ) is a brand name of cleaning and disinfecting products distributed by the Reckitt Benckiser company. The"
"cleaners with its well-known Ty-D-Bol man icon and blue bowl water. The company may be best known for its nautical spokesperson, the Ty-D-Bol Man, who piloted a boat inside the toilet tank. Nattily attired in a captain’s hat, blazer, and turtleneck, the suave skipper greeted 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s TV audiences when the bowl lid was lifted. Originally developed in 1958 by inventor and cleaning product pioneer, Harry O’Hare, Ty-D-Bol in its original form is a blue liquid cleanser/disinfectant for the toilet bowl. Other variants, such as a solid tablet in a water-soluble wrapper, were introduced later. In 1960, O’Hare"
"Sani Flush Sani-Flush was a brand of crystal toilet bowl cleaner formerly produced by Reckitt Benckiser. Its main ingredient was sodium bisulfate; it also contained sodium carbonate as well as sodium lauryl sulfate, talc, sodium chloride, fragrance and dye. When sodium bisulfate is mixed with water, a highly-corrosive acidic solution is produced, which dissolves accumulated minerals such as iron, magnesium and calcium from the bowl. Due to environmental concerns, the product has been discontinued; by 2013 its last original US trademark was cancelled or allowed to expire. Sani-Flush was introduced by the Hygienic Products Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1911"
"was another metaphor for something neat and trim. The British phrase may have evolved from the Dutch ""spiksplinter nieuw"", ""spike-splinter new"". In 1665, Samuel Pepys used spicke and span in his famous diary. The ""clean"" sense appears to have arisen only recently. On June 15, 1926, Whistle Bottling Company of Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, registered ""Spic and Span"" trademark No. 214,076 — washing and cleaning compound in crystal form with incidental water-softening properties. The modern cleaner was invented by housewives Elizabeth ""Bet"" MacDonald and Naomi Stenglein in Saginaw, Michigan in 1933. Their formula included equal parts of ground-up glue, sodium carbonate, and"
"maintain the saturation level and cleanliness of the card. The cleaning card was originally patented by Stanley H. Eyler and the patent (US#5525417 A) was assigned to his employer, the Clean Team Company. The Clean Team Company later changed its name to KICTeam, Inc., which continues to be the leading manufacturer of cleaning cards. The cleaning card has evolved with the equipment they need to clean. A good example is the bill acceptor. Initially, the bill acceptor was designed for vending machines as a means of selling candy to the public. It includes a device that recognizes that a US"
"liquid version is also available. Although considered all-purpose, it is ""not recommended for carpets, upholstery, aluminum, glass, laundry or mixing with bleach or ammonia"". Spic and Span Spic and Span is a major U.S. brand of all-purpose household cleaner. In the United States, the cleaning product is called Spic 'n' Span. The product is owned by Prestige Brands, which markets it for consumer use. Former owner Procter & Gamble markets Spic and Span for commercial use. The phrase ""span-new"" meant as new as a freshly cut wood chip, such as those once used to make spoons. In a metaphor dating"
"hair. Henry also has many variations of the name that is on the vacuum, such as Hetty, which is pink and leans towards a female audience, Harry, who is green, James, who is yellow, and many others (see ""Vacuum cleaners targeting domestic and light service""). Henry is most prominent in the UK where it is manufactured, however they can be bought in other countries. Since Henry's original release in 1981, a whole family of vacuum cleaners has been introduced in different sizes and colours and with different specifications and uses (including a wet and dry model and a multi-functional wet/dry"
"Swiffer Swiffer is a line of cleaning products by Procter & Gamble. Introduced in 1999, the brand uses the ""razor-and-blades"" business model; whereby the consumer purchases the handle assembly at a low price, but must continue to purchase replacement refills and pads over the lifespan of the product. Swiffer has become a half-billion dollar brand in fifteen countries. Swiffer WetJet is a mop. It only utilizes WetJet brand solvent in a special, unopenable bottle. It was introduced in 2001 in Canada and Belgium but came to the United States in 2002. Its original name was the Swiffer WetJet Power Mop."
"Biz (detergent) Biz Stain & Odor Eliminator is an enzyme-based, oxygenated and color-safe bleach, detergent booster and pre-treater for laundry stains, sold in both liquid and powder form. It is an enzyme-based bleach that can break down proteins. Biz bleach was invented by Charles McCarty, a researcher at Procter & Gamble (P&G), and introduced to the American market in 1967. Redox Brands purchased it from P&G in an auction held in the summer of 2000. ""Forbes"" estimated the purchase price as more than $40 million. Annual sales revenue reached about $40 million one year later. Biz was recommended for cleaning"
"began milling flour and mustard in Norwich, England, to become Reckitt & Colman Ltd. The company made several acquisitions, including the Airwick and Carpet Fresh brands (1985), the Boyle-Midway division of American Home Products (1990), and the Lehn & Fink division of Sterling Drug (1994). It acquired several brands from DowBrands in 1998. Reckitt & Colman sold the Colman's food business in 1995. The company was formed by a merger between Britain's ""Reckitt & Colman plc"" and the Dutch company ""Benckiser NV"" in December 1999. Bart Becht became CEO of the new company and has been credited for its transformation,"
"who then divested their Australian and New Zealand over-the-counter drug business to Bayer. In the US the Cēpacol lozenges have benzocaine while the mouthwash has Cetylpyridinium chloride Cēpacol Cepacol ( ), styled Cēpacol, is a brand of personal hygiene products, as well as for relief of sore throat. It is distributed in the US by Reckitt Benckiser. The brand was originally owned by J.B. Williams. Following acquisition by Combe Incorporated, Combe Incorporated sold Cepacol to Reckitt Benckiser in 2011. They were originally recognized for their yellow mouthwash, the active ingredient of which is Ceepryn (cetylpyridinium chloride), hence the name. The"
"Purex (laundry detergent) Purex is the brand name of a popular laundry detergent in the United States, Canada and other countries. It is manufactured by Henkel Corporation. Purex is one of the most widely used laundry detergents in North America. It takes its name from its original product, Purex bleach, which was a popular competitor to Clorox bleach. In 1922, Lionel S. Precourt and his son, Ray, began to make household bleach from their 400 square foot garage behind the family home at 132 E. 59th Place in Los Angeles, California. The following year, the name Purex was adopted for"
"Lysol Lysol ( ) is a brand name of cleaning and disinfecting products distributed by the Reckitt Benckiser company. The line includes liquid solutions for hard and soft surfaces, air treatment, and hand washing. The active ingredient in many Lysol products is benzalkonium chloride, but the active ingredient in the Lysol ""Power and Free"" line is hydrogen peroxide. Some of the scents from Lysol include ""Crisp Linen"", ""Floral"", ""Fruit & Citrus"", ""Gourmand"", and ""Fresh"". It is marketed as Lizol in India. The first Lysol Brand Antiseptic Disinfectant was introduced in 1889 by Dr. Gustav Raupenstrauch to help end a cholera"
"a memorable scene where a woman snorts Ajax after mistaking it for cocaine (it had been inadvertently spilled onto a mirror by the character played by Tommy Chong), suffering prolonged agonies as a result. It is featured in Carrie Underwood's song, ""Dirty Laundry"". Ajax (cleaning product) Ajax is a brand of cleaning products of Colgate-Palmolive. Colgate-Palmolive introduced Ajax powdered cleanser in 1947 and was one of the company's first major brands. The cleanser ingredients include sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, sodium carbonate, and quartz. The Ajax name was extended to a line of household cleaning products and detergents which enjoyed its greatest success"
"in the marketplace. Black & Decker DustBuster The Black & Decker DustBuster (now stylized as DUSTBUSTER) is a cordless vacuum cleaner that was introduced in January 1979. Mark Proett and Carroll Gantz are listed as the inventors on the utility and design patents, respectively, assigned to Black & Decker for a cordless vacuum cleaner. Mark Proett was an engineer whose utility patent was for B&D's Model 9321 cordless vacuum cleaner, called the Spot Vac, a component of the Mod 4 series of power tools (shrub trimmer, lantern, grass shear, drill, and Spot Vac), all powered by a single, rechargeable, and"
"to be granted a United States patent. The patent was for his invention of a cleaning process called ""dry scouring"", which was the precursor to dry cleaning. The first commercial ""dry laundry"" using turpentine was founded by Jolly Belin in Paris in 1825. Modern dry cleaning's use of non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes was reported as early as 1855. The potential for petroleum-based solvents was recognized by French dye-works operator Jean Baptiste Jolly, who offered a new service that became known as ""nettoyage à sec""—i.e., dry cleaning. Flammability concerns led William Joseph Stoddard, a dry cleaner"
"Domestos Domestos is a household cleaning range which contains bleach (primarily sodium hypochlorite NaOCl) and is manufactured by Unilever. Domestos (and Chloros, essentially a 10–25% solution of sodium hypochlorite) contains 100,000 ppm (10%) of the active component, available chlorine; many other bleaches contain 50,000 or less. Domestos was first produced in 1929 by Wilfrid Augustine Handley 1901 - 8/5/1975 [4] , a dentist from Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England, and sold door-to-door by salesmen who refilled stoneware jars bought by the customers. In 1961 the company was acquired by Lever Brothers. During the late 1980s"
"1925 the company formed what would become, Canadian Cellucotton Products Limited, for the marketing of these and other products in Canada and internationally. The first practical electric razor, the Sunbeam ""Shavemaster"" and the Remington ""Close Shaver"" made available in the US in 1937 and in Canada shortly thereafter. With a base of caustic soda, the world's first oven cleaner, Easy-Off, was invented in Regina in 1932 by Herbert McCool and manufactured in his home in that city until 1946, when production shifted to Iberville, Quebec. The product has since become the most popular oven cleaner in the world. The grand"
"cleaned and pressed, then they would return to the store several days later for pickup. By using a non-flammable solvent, the use of which was discovered by Martin, dry cleaning plants could now be located much more conveniently, and the process could be carried out in a much more timely manner. The use of this non-flammable solvent was adopted throughout the industry and revolutionized the business in that facilities could better serve their customers and provide much faster turn-around on the orders, if need be. Operationally this has been termed ""on-site cleaning"" (as opposed to the ""remote"" cleaning of the"