Are hydrocarbon solvents safe for the environment?
The hydrocarbon solvents used today, with their high purity, are completely safe for the environment, as well as for laundry service employees and customers. Bacteria in the soil will naturally degrade the hydrocarbons, and exposure tests in aquatic systems show no fish kills when hydrocarbon solvents are introduced.

The same hydrocarbons that are sold today for use in dry cleaning are also sold in the personal care market. They are used in makeup, hand cleaners, lotions, and dozens of other cosmetic products. In addition, they are approved for use in direct food contact applications, such as beet sugar manufacturing and vegetable cleaning.

Why choose a laundry service that uses hydrocarbons?
As stated above, hydrocarbon solvents have a clear advantage over perchlorethylenes when it comes to being safe for the environment, as well as for your personal health and the health of your family. By choosing a dry cleaner that uses hydrocarbon solvents, you are helping to reduce environmental pollution and are providing your family with clothes that are cleaned with a process that you can be certain will cause no health problems. In addition, your clothes do not suffer the damage wet cleaning can cause and will have a fresh clean scent rather than the unpleasant chemical smell of clothing cleaned with Perchloroethylene ( PCE )

Hexane

Hexane-type dearomatised hydrocarbon solvent. Highly volatile and flammable.
Use: In cleaning (grease, oil, wax), extraction processes, and tape manufacturing, in catalytic heaters, as a thinner for rubber glues.

Heptane

Heptane-type dearomatised hydrocarbon solvent. Volatile and highly flammable.
Use: In rubber industry, for rubber activation, as a thinner for oil paints and rubber glues, as a component in manufacturing of paints and varnishes, in washing and cleaning.