COLLOIDAL MICELLES: THE POWER BEHIND GREEN CLEANING
Micelles are tiny spherical shaped particles comprised of a grouping of linear molecules clumped together. This sphere has an interior that consist of tails that do not like water, but are lined on the outside with heads that do like water. Micelles provide a way to dissolve molecules that do not like water, in water.
Colloidal micelles work to breakdown long chain hydrocarbon bonds in fats, oils, and grease (FOG) and hold them in suspension when mixed with water. This unique property of the colloidal micelle is what allows it to be used so powerfully in a wide range of cleaning applications.
Individual colloidal micelles, at the nano-scale, repel each other like opposing magnets while attracting solid particles and breaking down hydro-carbon bonds into smaller molecules and/or atoms. Once solid particles have attached themselves to the colloidal micelle, the micelle holds them in suspension, preventing re-soiling from occurring and safely allowing FOG to be permanently dissolved in water. The wash off is completely bio-degraded and becomes soil constituents such as nitrate, dissolved oxygen, carbon dioxide, biomass and water.