What is a Colloidal Cleaner?

    Most people have not heard the term "colloids" as they relate to cleaning. In chemistry, colloid is a a state of matter; or simply, very tiny particles "floating" in another medium. If you have seen fog, you have seen a colloid. A closer look at fog or steam in a sauna (same thing) reveals extremely fine droplets of water suspended in the air. They move around randomly, never stopping.

    In a colloidal cleaner, these small particles, known as "micelles", wander aimlessly in the water they are mixed with. They collide with dirt or grease on the surface being cleaned. When the micelles crash into the dirt, it is loosened and pushed into the water. This is happens continually, and in a short span of time all the dirt is removed from the surface being cleaned. These micelles do not allow the pieces of dirt or grease in the water to rejoin and clump together on the surface being cleaned. Micelles encapsulate the dirt and grease, working unlike soap and detergents which tend to stick to the dirt and grease like iron filings to a magnet, floating in the water and piggybacking the dirt and grease with them.

    Since a colloidal cleaner works differently, it needs to be used differently. Three important factors must be considered:

               Temperature....................Time................... Solution strength. 

    Colloidal cleaners need to remain on the surface being cleaned longer to get the job done. Since they work by banging into the grime, heating them up makes them go faster and bang harder. Increasing the amount of micelles, means there are more of them to do the work. Increasing one factor, means the other factors must decrease. 

Knowing this, colloidal cleaners may be used confidently, with good results, without the undesirable side effects of other conventional toxic chemical or solvent cleaners you may currently use. The wide range of jobs that colloidal cleaners can do is extremely amazing as well.

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