Nowadays people like to clean their clothes and other fabrications from any dry cleaning company as compare to hand wash them at home. Dry cleaning (Wasserij) is one of the most effective type of cleaning clothes and other fabrications which can remove almost every type of stain can give your garments a complete new look. Dry cleaning is also safe for your clothes because it don’t damage fabrics and give some extra life to your garments that’s why people usually prefer to dry clean their expensive clothes.
Dry cleaning is a unique cleaning process which doesn’t require water. Professionals usually use different types of solvents for cleaning. In the early stages of the evolution of this process ammonia was the chemicals which was used as a solvent in dry cleaning process. As this process evolved many solvents were tried in dry cleaning process. The most commonly used solvents were petroleum based. Petroleum products were used as a solvent for a long time however the problem with petroleum based solvents was that they were highly flammable which resulted in property and life loss latter on. After that the petroleum solvents were solved by “perchloroethylene” solvent. This chemical was not flammable and it was totally safe as compare to petroleum solvents. Nowadays usually perchloroethylene solvents are used in dry cleaning process which is much effective and efficient in dry cleaning process as compare to old types of solvents
The process of dry cleaning is also very simple. In fact it is much similar to wet cleaning. In this process clothes are simply washed in a washing machine however the only difference is the chemical which needs to be used in washing process. In wet cleaning we use water and detergent as a cleaner however in dry cleaning process solvents play the role of cleaner
