Cleaning Products

Description of Industry

Cleaning products are a necessity in the lives of most consumers given the numerous items that require them: Dish, oven, toilette, sink, hands, hair, body, bath, car, windows, floor, tile…the list goes on and on. Global cleaning product sales may reach 147 billion by 2017.  The chemistry of cleaning products is very complex.  Ingredients involved in cleaning differ markedly from those involved in the product’s fragrance.  Other chemicals may be inadvertently added from packaging materials, production facilities, and the shipping and storage environment.  Volatile Analysis can help your company seize new opportunities by providing expertise in odor prevention and fragrance selection and enhancement.

 

Companies who strive to develop products with low levels of volatile organic compound (VOCs) need to back up their claims with real data.  Volatile Analysis Corp. provides this capability with our expert staff and cutting edge technology.  We can recommend products, processes, and potential substitutions to make the low VOC product a reality.

 

One very important area many companies overlook is front end odor mitigation.  Odor complaints can be devastating to a quality reputation.  Quick mitigation is essential. VAC can assist by developing odor baselines for your products for reference.  By knowing what odors should be there, odors that don’t fit can rapidly be identified and traced to production or other point of entry.  Volatile Analysis can assist members of the cleaning industry meet the demands for a regulated product chemical content by supplying the technical resources and know how to detect and measure the influence of aroma and the impact of odor.

Applicable Services

What we do

The team at Volatile Analysis solves odor and aroma problems, and measures VOC components.  It is ironic cleaning products themselves may introduce unwanted odor.  For example common bleach and other halogenated cleaners may not work in certain environments, and may introduce secondary metabolites that are problematic in other environments.  Sensory work related to how your products are perceived is of extreme importance depending on your target consumer market.  We offer a service to address how different global cultures perceive aromas and odors differently, and how this difference may acceptance.  This has proved to be of considerable value to clients.  Our team can help your organization account for odor from product concept to on-going aroma profile management.  Most services we offer are suited for this industry. A few key ones are described below.

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Five Big Trends in Cleaning Products

Cleaning products have become essential in the everyday life of the modern consumer. Identify niches in this industry with this definitive guide to current trends and drivers in the sector, brought to you by the leading experts at Smithers Apex. We hope you enjoy this information. Check out what Volatile can do to help your team solve odor issues with cleaning products or help in the development of new products.

http://www.smithersapex.com/news/2013/November/5-important-trends-in-the-cleaning-products-market

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