The word "detergents" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to soap or cleaning products that are used to clean things. For example, "I always buy natural detergents for my laundry."
The reasoning behind no-pooing is that chemical detergents in shampoo strip hair of its natural oils, causing the scalp to pump out too much, creating lank hair and a greasy scalp.
Most other large industries--from detergents to dog food--have reorga nised themselves to take advantage of the single market, and to protect themselves from global competitors.
American innovations, such as rubber gloves, detergents and vacuum cleaners, took decades to arrive in Britain.
In 2006 the French economy ministry inspected Unilever under the guise of another investigation in a market "close to detergents".
DECADES ago, your correspondent visited one of the larger sewage works in the Thames Valley to learn how the new biodegradable detergents, with their long hydrocarbon chains, were affecting the plant's filtration processes.
This week it announced a $10m investment in a Finnish mapping company whose technology uses the Earth's magnetic field to map the insides of buildings precisely: imagine it detecting that a shopper has reached the detergents aisle of a supermarket, and pinging her some coupons.
He may or may not be right, but Unilever is certainly putting its money where his mouth is.It has started selling products in Asia specially designed for that resource-constrained future, including detergents that clean well at relatively low temperatures and can be rinsed off using relatively little water.
A business in purifying and selling bacterial enzymes for use in food manufacturing, washing powders and so on has existed for decades, but in 1988 a Danish firm called Novozymes produced the first transgenic enzyme, a fat-digester for detergents.
At this point, it is not financially viable for Mexican firms to lower their levels of phosphate, but if they want to capture more of the US market, they will have to make the production of their detergents more environmentally friendly.
Heavy fuel oil will not disperse or emulsify easily when treated with detergents.
Unilever, for example, has extended the notion of "lean" from the factory to the home, by producing detergents that use less water when you rinse your laundry.Second, many aspects of sustainability can be measured.
