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It uses energy and oxygen, in a unique way, to replace many of the chemicals and eliminate the hot water normally used in the traditional laundering process. Oxygen and energy (electricity or UV) are used to create ozone. Now, with advanced technology, this ozone can be used with cold water to replace most of the chemicals you currently use to deliver a superior finished product. This is the most effective and environmentally friendly way to clean, deodorize, and sanitize your laundry. This fundamental change to one of the major aspects of textile care comes with a litany of benefits that all serve to greatly improve the results of your laundry and to significantly reduce the day-to-day costs of your laundry operations.
For any laundry, a quality finished product requires a combination of 4 things:
If you reduce one, you must increase others to create the balance needed to reliably deliver a quality finished product. When used properly, ozone actually REPLACES many of the chemicals you would normally use to achieve the results you want.
Using ozone, instead of a lot of chemicals, keeps the proper mix required to deliver a superior finished product without having to increase any of the other components. Mechanical action will always be critical to achieve quality results, because mechanical action/agitation actually accounts for more than half of the cleaning action. Remember, people used to get their stuff clean down at the river by rubbing it on the rocks, without any soap! Lots of water and ‘elbow grease’ will get your clothes clean but both of those are hard to come by these days.
The energy contained within the hot water is being replaced by the energy contained within the ozone molecule. Also, because of the laws of physics, heat destroys ozone. Using hot water with ozone will neutralize its effectiveness.
Therefore, to take advantage of the power of ozone, you must only use cold water. Using ozone laundry correctly will drastically cut your hot water use and significantly reduce your electric bill and is a huge step toward sustainable laundry in your own home.
It is made entirely out of oxygen, right on the spot, and all you have to do is plug it in. There are no plastic bottles to discard; no chemical residues to get on you or end up on your sheets or in your clothes to make you itch, or worse; no chemicals going down the drain to contaminate your local surface water supplies; no hot water is needed which greatly reduces your energy bill and your carbon footprint; chlorine bleach is also eliminated and this is the most effective thing you can do to reduce indoor air pollution and eliminate nasty, cancer-causing THM’s from your home; double the life of your valuable linen by eliminating hot water and harsh chemicals and reduce the huge environmental impact of creating more sheets, towels, and clothing and then getting them to you.
The big shift is realizing that you can achieve a superior finished product without using all the hot water and chemicals normally used to achieve a satisfactory finished product. Ozone is a highly effective oxidizer that delivers multiple cleaning factors to your laundry, using only cold water.
In traditional commercial laundry washes, so much alkali and hot water are used, that the wash water becomes very caustic and damaging to valuable linens. Most chemical suppliers will tell you this is done to help swell the fibers of the linen to release the dirt. Well, the fibers do swell, but only as a result of the extremely damaging effects the extremely high pH has on the fabric. Acid must be used to bring the pH back down to Earth before the load is finished. You do the same thing when you add acid to your swimming pool.
The truth about what is going on is that heat and extremely high pH are required to bring about the creation of OH Radicals from water (H²O) molecules. One of the Hydrogen atoms gets ripped-off the water molecule and voila, you’ve got a Hydroxyl Radical (OH) to do the heavy work. Hydroxyl Radicals are the most powerful oxidizers in the Universe – really! With ozone laundry, you can create the same OH radicals with a neutral pH, in cold water containing dissolved ozone. It is a revolution, and it really works!
Ozone works extremely well when properly integrated into your overall laundry program. There are many types of linens and many types of soil loading. Ozone is a powerful oxidant and it is what you need to destroy most stains, smells, bacteria, and viruses. With cold water, ozone, and a little bit of detergent, you can achieve cleaning and brightening for most items that is equal to what you would get using copious amounts of detergent, chlorine bleach, and hot water!
