The Laundry and Home Care segment includes detergents, fabric softeners, laundry performance enhancers, automatic dishwashing products, and cleaning products.
Oral, Personal and Home Care products include toothpaste, toothbrushes and mouth rinses, bar and liquid hand soaps, shower gels, shampoos, conditioners, deodorants and antiperspirants, laundry and dishwashing detergents, fabric conditioners, household cleaners, bleaches and other similar items.
The consumer domestic segment, which accounted for 70.8% of revenues for the first nine months of 2006, makes household products such as baking soda, surface cleaners, scrubbing pads, carpet deodorizers, ammonia, laundry detergents, fabric softeners and cat litter.
Major fragrance customers include the cosmetics industry, including perfume and toiletries manufacturers, and the household products industry, including manufacturers of soaps, detergents, fabric care, household cleaners and air fresheners.
Wastewater effluents are a major source for many of these emerging contaminants, due to their use in products we use in our households, from pharmaceuticals, detergents, fabric coatings, foam cushions, lotions, sunscreens, cosmetics, hair products, foods and beverages, and food packaging.
They tested 25 air fresheners, laundry detergents, fabric softeners, dryer sheets, disinfectants, dish detergents, all-purpose cleaners, soaps, hand sanitizers, lotions, deodorants, and shampoos.
