Environmental & Safety Considerations

Surfactant & Emulsifier Free

STARPOWER provides its superior detergency without the use of surfactants or emulsifiers. Today it is common for industrial cleaners to contain surfactants and emulsifiers, which clean by causing oily materials to chemically bind to water. This bonding can be detected by noting the milky-white color of the cleaner’s residue when the residue comes in contact with water.Such products do clean, and some of them do so very effectively. However, the serious problem with the chemical surfactants and emulsifiers they contain is that the milky emulsion they create wreaks havoc on oil-water separators. This is because the oily materials being removed will chemically bind to the water used to rinse away the residue. These oily materials will not separate from the water. This milky emulsion will defeat the action of the separating units.

STARPOWER’s formula is free of surfactants and emulsifiers. This property of the product will be of benefit to you if you use an oil/water separator system to capture your runoff. That is because when an oil-based substance has been cleaned from a surface, and the residue has been rinsed into the separator, that oil-based substance will separate from the STARPOWER while in the unit, and can then be easily removed.

(NOTE: To test this feature of STARPOWER, pour it and some oil into a clear container and shake it vigorously. Let the solution settle for a while. You will observe that the oily phase will completely separate from the water-based STARPOWER phase. “Seeing Is Believing”(TM).)

Safety & Performance

Creating a high performance cleaner/degreaser that would produce outstanding results without causing harm to the environment, and that wouldn’t “cost an arm and a leg”, was a major challenge for Paradigm. STARPOWER's environmentally responsible users have been deeply satisfied with its potent cleaning and degreasing power, delivered in a formula that withstands the close scrutiny of regulatory agencies.Our corporate and government customers alike have found that, in terms of meeting ever-stricter environmental codes and regulations, the switch to STARPOWER has been well worth it for them. In fact, it has been determined in many cases that the product actually exceeds the strict requirements of the environmental standards they must meet.

Further, no special safety equipment is required when using STARPOWER, an environmentally responsible product.