Home Care Topics
The Home Care department within IKW provides competent answers to questions concerning hygiene, washing and cleaning.
Information for manufacturers
IKW Recommendation for the Quality Assessment of the Cleaning Performance of Hand Dishwashing Detergents (2002)
Recommendation elaborated in an IKW Working Group by Colgate-Palmolive GmbH, Dalli Werke Wäsche- und Körperpflege GmbH & Co. KG, fit GmbH, Henkel KGaA, Luhns GmbH, Reckitt Benckiser plc., Werner & Mertz GmbH in cooperation with testing institutes
Several elements of this test were revised, described in greater detail, amended and examinded in numerous interlaboratory tests.
This recommendation was to make possible the qualified testing by manufacturers themselves and by indiependent test institutes. It can also serve as a contribution tot he discussion about test methods for hand dishwashing detergents on the European level and aims to meet the following criteria:
simple, no major outlay in equipment
relevant for daily practice
reproducible
Differentiation.
In a dishwashing solution soiled plates are washed by hand until the foam layer collapses. Besides the dishwashing detergents for testing, a control is always conducted with a standard detergent.
The full paper can be downloaded as a PDF file here.