CHEMICAL SURFACE CLEANER – “Cif”

White colour is one of the favourite colours that like by everybody. Wall and floors which painted by white colour can represent the cleanest of a house. However, white colour is the hardest colour that can be well taking care. Honestly, children like to touch or in contact to the wall when playing in the house. When their hands were dirty, it might leave some fingerprints or stains on the wall.  Do you feel annoying or frustrating when you unable or cannot remove the fingerprints and stains on the wall? I am not so clear about it until today I discovered it. I am so surprised because “Cif” can just like a magic cream that removes stubborn dirt easily with little effort~

What is “Cif”?

Cif is a brand of household cleaning products by Unilever, known as Jif in Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and the Nordic countries. Cif is the largest selling abrasive cleaner product in the world. Cif launched in France in 1969, it is marketed against scouring powders such as Vim, as a creamy and hence protective but powerful domestic cleaner. Initially focused on cream cleansers for the kitchen and bathroom, it was launched using a now famous "skater" advert, which highlighted how scouring powders could "scratch like skates on ice." Asia is Cif's fastest-growing market, and India it’s largest.

What does Cif contain?

Cif contain few ingredients:
Sodium Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulphonate, Alcohol Ethoxylate, Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Hydroxide, Acrylic Polymer, Antifoam Emulsion, Preservative, Perfume, and Water.

These ingredient above mixed together act as a function of Surfactants.

What is Surfactants and how does it works?

Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension of a liquid, the interfacial tension between two liquids, or that between a liquid and a solid. Surfactants reduce the surface tension of water by adsorbing at the liquid-gas interface. They also reduce the interfacial tension between oil and water by adsorbing at the liquid-liquid interface. Many surfactants can also assemble in the bulk solution into aggregates. Examples of such aggregates are vesicles and micelle.

The concentration at which surfactants begin to form micelle is known as the critical micelle concentration (CMC). When micelles form in water, their tails form a core that can encapsulate an oil droplet, and their heads form an outer shell that maintains favorable contact with water. When surfactants assemble in oil, the aggregate is referred to as a reverse micelle. In a reverse micelle, the heads are in the core and the tails maintain favorable contact with oil. Surfactants are also often classified into four primary groups; anionic, cationic, non-ionic, and dual charge - zwitterionic. Thermodynamics of the surfactant systems are of great importance, theoretically and practically. This is because surfactant systems represent systems between ordered and disordered states of matter. Surfactant solutions may contain an ordered phase – micelles, and a disordered phase - free surfactant molecules and/or ions in the solution.

“Cif” brings a lot of benefits for the entire house wife in the world. “Cif” is the greatest invention of surface cleaner. It helps a lot of house wives to remove the stubborn dirt with the easiest way and without any worries. My mother had used “Cif” for more than 10 years. If your children made the walls dirty, perhaps you can use “Cif” for your priority option of surface cleaner...