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Subject: Family Resource Management × Author: Dubey, Ragini × Start date: 2017 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Analytical comparison between commercial and laboratory prepared cleansers for utensils and floors
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2019) Dubey, Ragini; Surjinderjit Kaur
    The present study was undertaken to evaluate the commonly used commercial utensils and floor cleansers, to prepare utensil and floor cleansers in a laboratory using mainly home available ingredients, to compare the commercial and laboratory prepared cleansers in terms of their cleaning efficiency, cost-effectiveness and selected physio-chemical parameters and to frame recommendations on the basis of findings of the study. The resreach was conducted in two phases i.e household survey and laboratory experiments. In the first phase, a sample of 120 respondents from two colleges of Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, viz college of community science and Basic science and Humanities were selected by using simple random sampling technique. The data were collected personally with the help of an interview schedule. The findings of the study revealed that 51.67 percent of the respondents preferred vim liquid, followed by vim bar (34.33%) for cleaning of utensils. The third and fourth preferred utensils cleansers were pril (15%) and super dish wash gel (11.64%). In case of floor cleansers majority of the respondents (82.50%) preferred Harpic followed by Lizol (33.33%) and domex (28.33%) respectively. While using commercial utensils cleansers most of the respondents (32.50%) reported the problems of redness and roughness of skin. In case of floor cleansers 25.00 percent respondents reported the problems of skin itching followed by 20.80 percent of respondents who reported breathing problem using commercial floor cleansers. So, four types of cleansers i.e. 2 for utensils cleaning and 2 for floor cleaning were prepared in the laboratory. The laboratory prepared cleansers were better than selected commercial cleanser in terms of selected quality parameter viz. pH range, surface tension, foam stability, BOD, emulsion stability and hard water test. The laboratory prepared cleansers were found to be more efficient in removing stains from utensils and floor as compared to selected commercial cleansers. The result of microbial examination of washed plates, cups, pressure cooker, saucepan and floor tiles revealed that laboratory prepared cleansers were powerful disinfectant also. The result of field trials indicated high level of satisfaction among respondents regarding the performance of laboratory prepared acidic utensils cleanser and in case of floor cleansers laboratory prepared basic cleanser was considered most efficient by majority of respondents (90%). Therefore these cleanser need to be prepared and promoted for wide spread use.