Cleaning Cosmetics Manufacturing Equipment: A Detergent Formulated for the Industry

Q: We manufacture cosmetics and personal care products. Is there an Alconox detergent formulated specifically for our industry?

A: The short answer is yes. Cosmetics and personal care manufacturing presents a genuinely distinct set of cleaning challenges. The residues you are dealing with, waxes, makeup bases, oils, emollients, and pigment-laden formulations, are not what a general-purpose industrial cleaner is designed to handle well. We recognized that gap and developed Halojet® Low-Foam High Emulsification Cleaner specifically to address it. Halojet is a non-hazardous formulation built to take on the high-lipid, high-wax soils that are characteristic of cosmetics production environments.

What makes Halojet well suited to this application is its high emulsification capacity. Waxes and oil-based cosmetic residues are notoriously stubborn, and a cleaner needs to break through and suspend those soils effectively without leaving residues of its own behind. Halojet is low-foaming, which makes it compatible with automated cleaning systems like CIP and spray washers commonly found in cosmetics facilities. In the video below, Marius Dräger, Senior Chemist, and Nick Di Grandi, Associate Chemist, walk through the formulation thinking behind Halojet and what makes it effective for this type of residue.

Halojet is a low foaming, high emulsifying detergent for efficient removal of metal oxides, soils, buffing compounds, oils, particulates, chemicals and solvents, and mold releases in automated, manual, or ultrasonic cleaning. Corrosion inhibited and free rinsing for reliable results and no interfering residues. Biodegradable and does not ship as a hazmat. Dilute 3:100. pH ~10

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