What Is An Aqueous Cleaner?

By Michael Moussourakis, Jeff Phillips, Stacy Silverstein, and Malcolm McLaughlin

This chapter of The Aqueous Cleaning Handbook explains what an aqueous cleaner is, what it contains, and how it improves your cleaning process.

Surface cleaning or degreasing can be defined as the removal of residues, contaminants, or soils—in other words, unwanted or extraneous material that is deposited on or attached to a substrate surface. The objective of surface cleaning may be aesthetic, medicinal, social, or scientific. The cleaning process typically uses at least one of four types of cleaning compounds: soaps, solvents, synthetic solvents, and aqueous cleaners.