The advancement and history in dry cleaning

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Title: Technique Advancement in Dry Cleaning

The Advancement and History in Dry Cleaning Description: Brief history on technological advancement and how cleaners have adopted these techniques.

These were the thoughts of our forefathers who pondered if better techniques and technology would be developed throughout the decades. Or were they to remain stuck with the primitive method of washing their garments against rocks nearby the shore side or washing their clothes in buckets. Nowadays, due to the advancements in both techniques and technology in cleaning our clothing, that is not the case. Many other individuals have taken advantage of such strives and have made a profit out of this by creating small to large business that profit on cleaning people clothing. Let’s go back and see how far the advancement in dry cleaning has progress over the millennia. Research has shown that as early as 79 A.D., in ancient Rome, cleaners who were known as fullers used a mix of ammonia, lye, and this type of clay that was able to absorb dirt, sweat and oil from their garments. Real advancement came to the world of dry cleaning in the early 18th century when a man named Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Jolly was born. He is the first individual to create a cleaning service company and to coin the term “dry cleaning”. JeanBaptiste accidently spill kerosene on a dirty tablecloth and discovered that when it dried on the cloth, the stain was gone. His mistake would ultimately become future businessmen profit. These are just a few examples that dry cleaning has progress of the span of 1000 years of human exploration in dry cleaning. Due to the frontier research and experimentation that our earlier forefathers conducted on, businesses like Carriage Regal Cleaner in Santa Monica have prospered and upgraded the implementation of their techniques into their business. You might be asking yourself on how they have adopted the research in providing a great service to their clients. Due to the research, these establishments are aware on what technique is best suited for their clients clothing. For example, Carriage Regal Cleaner is aware that garments that are made of the material like wool and cotton cannot be cleaned in traditional means. Instead of traditional means, they would dry clean the garments. You might be wondering what the difference between drying cleaning and laundry cleaning. The drying process is a process that involves cleaning your garments without water. For laundry cleaning, as you guess it, involves cleaning your cloths with water. Instead, a solvent


is used to remove all stains, filth and other particles from your clothing. The solvent is a product that widely used by many dry cleaning establishments do to its effectiveness in removing dirt and stains from clothing. Not only are these chemicals in their exposal, but better equipment have been developed that are suited in taking larger loads in today’s day of age. These bulky machines are also specialized in taking care of delicate loads so that the clothes of their clients get little to no damages at all. Although such advancements have greatly evolved, I wait in anticipation on what the future holds in newer options for cleaners for their business. Will it hold better solvent for cleaning our clothing


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