The lime and soda have also a detergent action on soiled stock, and they probably assist in hydrolyzing the pigments of the hair roots and sheaths.
The roots contain a bitter milky juice; they promise to be of use as asperient and detergent medicines; and have sometimes been directed in this intention with good success.
The bark of Quillaia saponaria renders water frothy and is used as a detergent by wool dyers.
The filings of the oilstone being detergentsuit with alopecia.
Use as anodyne anddetergent wash: it is useful for weak eyes.
It is used externally as a detergent when dissolved in water, and as a lotion to inflamed and painful rheumatic joints.
Used externally, as an ointment, it forms an excellent astringent in affections of the eyelids, arising from relaxation; or as a powder, it is an excellent detergent for unhealthy ulcers.
Used externally, it is an excellent detergent for foul ulcers, and those that heal slowly.
Transparent soaps, however pleasing to the eye, are always of indifferent quality; they are never so detergent as ordinary soaps, and they eventually acquire a disagreeable smell.
Such soap possesses very powerful detergent qualities, but it is apt to feel hard and be somewhat gritty in use.
A little of thisdetergent being scraped off with a knife, made into a paste with water, and applied to the stain, will remove it.
This residual soap and detergent material cause rapid resoiling, development of crushed appearance, and may cause the development of rancid odor or a gradual color change in the dyestuff.
There is no shampoo method or device which, while the carpet is on the floor, adequately cleans the fabric to the base of the pile or effectively removes the soap and detergent material.
God be thanked, there is a mightier detergent than all these--even that divine Spirit which Christ gives, and that divine forgiveness which Christ brings.
A most excellent detergent and stimulant soap in various affections, admirably adapted for hospital use, and for removing stains from the skin and rendering it white.
In such cases the daily use of some mild stimulating or detergent wash, with due attention to the stomach and bowels, will generally abate this annoyance.
Formerly used to make an astringent and detergent lotion:--1 oz.
Tincture of iodine locally, detergent washes, and the like, often secure a certain amount of comfort as palliatives.
When fetor exists, as during the detachment of patches of exudation, antiseptic and detergent sprays may be employed.
An effective decontaminant is hot water used with the addition of soap or detergent and scrubbing.
Thoroughly wipe containers that will not withstand soaking with a cloth soaked in a chlorine detergent solution.
Combined with tonics, it forms a valuable gargle, and a detergentfor old sores and foul ulcers.
We are satisfied that the plantain possesses valuable antiseptic and detergent properties.
He was thoroughly wet with the stuff and no amount of water and detergent would take it off.
First came the decontamination chamber, where the radioactive dust that might have settled on the suits was sluiced off by the detergent sprays.
With additions of naphtha, fractions of petroleum, and turpentine, the detergent power of the soap is increased by the action of these substances in removing grease.
In the case of weak-bodied soap, this addition gives firmness and tends to increase the detergent qualities.
The prone gunman slid out of the wide double door, pushing a bow-wave of detergent before him.
Hood number two slid magnificently on his belly on the superb lubrication afforded by detergent on top of floor-oil.
There was a flood of liquid--detergent solution--flowing toward the open back doors of the big room.
Has been used as a detergent and as an emulsifying agent; in the latter use is objectionable.
So I know what a detergent is supposed to do, and all about how soaps act, and stuff that most people take the advertisers' word for.
Meanwhile, I read some more labels and added pinches of this and that detergent and a few squirts of liquid "wonder-cleaners" that didn't say what was in them.
