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Comet Cleanser Commercial 01 Giant Coffee Cup ~1960 Procter & Gamble
🕑 Added 2020-02-08 22:14:11 +0000 UTCmore at http://quickfound.net/
Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(cleanser)
Wikipedia license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Comet is a brand of scouring powders and other household cleaning products manufactured by KIK Custom Products Inc. The brand was introduced in 1956 by Procter & Gamble (P&G) and sold to Prestige Brands in 2001. In 2018, Prestige Brands sold the Comet brand to KIK Custom Products Inc. P&G retained the rights to market the brand in Europe and to the professional market (non-home-consumer) in the United States...
Ingredients
According to the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) published by Procter & Gamble for "PGP Comet Deoderizing Cleanser with Chlorinol" and Prestige Brands for "Comet Powdered Cleanser", Comet cleanser contains 60–100% calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
Ingredients common to all Prestige Brands Comet Powdered Cleansers are listed as:
Calcium carbonate - Scrubbing agent
Calcium hydroxide - pH adjuster
Fragrance - Smell
Green 7 - Colorant (except in "Comet Lemon Powder")
Sodium carbonate - Builder/sequestering agent
Sodium linear alkylbenzenesulfonate surfactant - Cleaning agent
Trichloro-s-triazinetrione - Bleach
Trichloroisocyanuric acid (Symclosene)[6] – Disinfectant
The P&G Professional Comet MSDS details percentages of the major component chemicals:
Calcium carbonate: 60-100%
Sodium carbonate: 7-13%
Calcium hydroxide: 1-5%
Sodium dichloro-s triazinetrione dihydrate: 1-5%
(Note: Not all ingredients are listed on an MSDS.)
Warnings
Mixing cleaning products containing bleach or other oxygenates (such as Comet) with products that contain ammonia or acid is dangerous. The P&G Comet MSDS specifically warns to: "Avoid contact with acids and ammonia."
Despite being labeled as "scratch free", the label for Comet cleanser also advises the use of plenty of water on "delicate surfaces". Comet powdered cleanser is not recommended for use on silver, painted surfaces, walls, soft plastic, aluminum, and rubber...
