Save Lives, Clean your Hands – World Hand Hygiene Day – 5th May Back in 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its annual hand hygiene campaign[1] as part of its effort to promote hand hygiene around the world, and support its global health and hygiene objectives. And over the past couple of years, the importance of good hand hygiene has been further highlighted, with hand washing and sanitisation a key measure to help curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Handwashing is proven to help prevent the spread of both respiratory illness and diarrhoeal diseases, and so important has proper hand washing become over the course of the pandemic, that the WHO has even updated its guidance in the context of Covid-19. World Hand Hygiene Day 5th May 2022 World Hand Hygiene Day is held on 5th May every year. The campaign encourages healthcare workers all around the world to increase adherence to hand hygiene, to prevent infection and in turn protect both frontline health workers and vulnerable people. What can we do? Let’s not just leave it to the healthcare workers. We can all do our bit to promote good hand hygiene. Installing notices in your workplace or venue is a simple way to remind people to practice good hand hygiene, but it’s also important to have the right products for them to be able to do so. The right products for the right environment We’re one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of cleaning and hygiene products and we’ve been doing this since 1948. Our customers include the healthcare sector, schools, fitness and leisure, catering and hospitality and we’ve a broad range of hand care products suitable for any setting. Whether it’s liquid hand soap, antibacterial foaming hand soaps or industrial hand care, we’ve got the products to help you ensure good hand hygiene practice in your workplace or venue. Or if you’re looking for something higher end to impress your customers, our  Ast & Greaves luxury hand care range will do just that. With two fragrances to choose from – Jasmine and Apple Blossom or Ginseng and Bergamot – our hand washes are formulated with high-quality perfumes, mild surfactants and moisturising agents, so you can delight your customers and make good hand hygiene all the more enjoyable. If you’d like to know more about hand hygiene or our hand care products, Contact our team today, sales@cleenol.co.uk [1] https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-hand-hygiene-day

On World Asthma Day (May 2 2023) and throughout May, people with asthma and organisations dedicated to asthma control and education join together to increase awareness about asthma and improve the lives of all people with asthma. It is organised by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) (www.ginasthma.org), a World Health Organization collaborative organisation founded in 1993. The World Health Organisation estimates that 235 million people suffer from asthma globally, highlighting the importance of this event in raising asthma awareness. Approximately 1.1 million of these people live in the UK, and this event is the perfect chance to raise awareness about asthma, its effects, and potential treatments. VOC exposure has been associated with asthma, amongst other eye, skin and respiratory irritations. However, different effects of VOCs on human health have been reported regarding the type of molecules involved. This is why our edencleen range of products is entirely VOC free.

Over the course of three days in March, London hosted the International Salon Culinaire competition which has continued to be regarded as one of the world’s top competitions for chefs for over a century. The competitions have been a platform for chefs of all levels from the talented young chefs training at college, to those who are well established and firmly on their culinary career journey. Salon Culinaire offers the industry a platform to highlight the fantastic and exciting gastronomic skills that the hospitality industry has to offer. This year Cleenol was delighted to be a primary sponsor for the event and to be able to showcase our Evolution X2 range that provides peace of mind in terms of cleaning and hygiene performance, whilst occupying very little space in the kitchen environment and controlling costs due to its accurate dilution control system that dilutes at point of application. To find out more about Evolution X2, contact us sales@cleenol.co.uk

New from Cleenol, our latest hand wash product. A quality, white, unfragranced antibacterial hand wash, developed for frequent use. Its mild yet effective formula brings peace of mind in terms of positive hand hygiene. In its development Cleenol has ensured that it meets the stringent hand hygiene needs of everyday use, but especially so for the care sector. Complies with the following British EN standards: EN1499:2013,EN1276:2019,EN1650:2019 (Yeast),EN13624:2021 (Yeast) – specifically aimed at the Care sectorEN13727 – especially developed to disinfect even in dirty conditions. 3 formats 6x500ml SEN-WABHW-6X500; 2x5L SEN-WABHW-2X5 and 3x800ml pouch SEN-WABHW-3X800

This month, we are featuring in the editor's choice of the Family Business United news features. Family Business United (‘FBU’) is an unparalleled rallying point and voice for the global family business community and an invaluable source of insight into the sector. FBU is a resource for all, family businesses of all sizes and sectors, and their advisers, helping to raise the profile of the family business sector. Sharing news and best practice is at the core of what we are all about, as well as undertaking research projects, hosting twitter chats and webinars and putting on innovative events too. Cleenol is delighted to be a part of this dynamic organisation and is proud to be featured as an editor's pick.

Over 3 days in March, Cleenol sponsored the Hotel, Restaurant and Catering show, with the International Salon Culinaire competition running as an integral part. Apart from being a huge event for the hospitality industry, given that it also combined the Pub Show 2023 and IFE and IFE Manufacturing, the event gave us a great opportunity to showcase the compact and highly efficient Evolution X2 product - as demonstrated by the professional chefs in the Live and Skills Theatres. To find out more about X2, contact us directly or complete the Contact Us form on this website.

Today March 18th is Global Recycling Day. Recycling has been a watch word for the environment for many years and it does indeed allow for all types of energy saving but alone, it does not offer the silver bullet for waste control. During any recycling process, resources are reused, energy is consumed, and a degree of pollution follows. This is why the often-quoted 3R's of going green - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – appear in this specific order. This is where pre cycling comes in, under the “Reduce” phase. Precycling is about reducing waste by avoiding items that will generate it, or selecting certain items that will generate less, or acquiring items that can be reused for something else but attention to precycling can also bring significant savings early on in a manufacturing process. Manufacturing cleaning products requires the use of many resources, both renewable and non-renewable. The performance of a cleaning product has a direct correlation with the resources used: if a low performance cleaning product is used, more of it will be needed to deliver the same level of cleanliness as perhaps a more effective or more expensively formulated product will. If a concentrated cleaning product is used, there will be a consequential reduction in environmental impact thanks to there being less plastic and less energy needed during its production, when compared to a traditional product. These are both examples of pre cycling. Pre-cycling is the process of reducing waste by attempting to avoid producing items which will generate waste. It is the concept of "using less" to "generate less''. Such an approach has a stronger positive environmental impact than recycling. Indeed, pre-cycling helps reduce the need for recycling; although recycling is a positive and necessary process, as we saw above, it still requires energy and resource consumption. Developing formulations is not just about mixing ingredients that will provide a functional product, it is mainly about finding the way to generate the best synergistic action between ingredients. For example, the addition of some ingredients may lower the cleaning performance of the formulation. For example, selecting a specific anti bactericidal raw material that is also a surfactant allows the use of just one raw material instead of two. Cleenol has for over 70 years developed effective formulations that require long development cycles and testing of hundreds of prototypes to ensure that we deliver the best cleaning solution at the least cost to the environment. Cleenol has adapted the well documented engineering inspired Taguchi process for its cleaning products.  With this approach, Cleenol has developed extremely effective cleaning formulations that use the lowest possible amount of active ingredient - reducing resource use. This reduction in resource material usage is a highly effective way to reduce our environmental footprint and has been part of our DNA for decades. It forms an integral part of our vision for a cleaner, safer world.

This year Cleenol is delighted to be sponsoring the The Hotel, Restaurant & Catering Show, also at London Excel and will be supplying the cleaning and hygiene products for the show and the live theatres at the International Salon Culinaire 2023. The show is being held in association with the Pub Show and the IFE Show across a number of halls - with plenty of food and drink to sample, it makes for a great day out and headline and you can always stop by and say hello to us on stand - and share your thoughts on how well X2 performs in the confined spaces, and hectic environment of the live theatre kitchens. Click here to register for your free ticket

Our 75th Birthday We don't look it we know! This year represents Cleenol's 75th birthday and as a company we are engaging on what we have called 75x75x75. The Company has committed to raising £75,000 from May 23 by involving at least 75 people in 75 events. The money will then be shared between 3 good causes - Katharine House Hospice here in Banbury that we have supported for over 30 years; Tribox - an organisation that uses sport to help mange mental illness and a third cause that will be chosen by the Cleenol employees. We'll be running events and inviting customers to actively participate and to sponsor too so be prepared to get your running shoes on! Get in touch if you want to take part in some friendly inter company footie or cricket or any other fun nonsense events!

See the Team, Take the Cleenol Challenge We'll be showing off the Evolution X2 range as well as our other super concentrates and our edencleen range for those after an alternative sustainable solution. We are confident that we'll have a solution for challenge you bring us! And for those placing orders on the days of the show there'll be something special in store. See us at stand D20 at London Excel and click here to register

World Toilet Day is on 19th November. Held on the same date each year, and organised by UN Water, it has been a globally observed event since 2013. The purpose of World Toilet Day is to ‘celebrate toilets’ but also to raise awareness of the billions of people who don’t have access to proper sanitation. The United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 (SDG 6.2) aims to ensure safe toilets for everyone by 2030, yet today around 3.6 billion people still live with poor quality toilets. This not only poses a threat to health and contributes to the spread of disease, it also pollutes the environment, spreading human waste to our rivers, lakes and soil, and our groundwater. The title of this year’s World Toilet Day is ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ with a focus on the impact of poor sanitation on groundwater. Groundwater accounts for approximately 99% of freshwater on our planet and is vital to human survival. It supports our supplies of drinking water, together with sanitation systems, agriculture, industry and our ecosystems. The World Health Organization reports that at least two billion people drink from water sources contaminated with faeces and that every day more than 800 children under five years of age die from diarrhoea-related illness linked to unsafe drinking water. UN Water is therefore calling on us all to join the conversation and do more to achieve SDG 6.2 and prevent the global sanitation crisis we are currently facing. Keeping sanitation clean and kind to the environment The quality and accessibility of sanitation systems is important but so too is having access to good hygiene and cleanliness practices. Cleaning and hygiene products are crucial to ensure sanitation spaces are kept clean and safe, such as handwashes  and sanitisers to support good personal hygiene. Yet, as we increase our use of these products, we also risk harming the environment with chemicals and toxins. That’s why we developed our edencleen range, which includes high-performing solutions for around 80% of all cleaning needs, limiting any harmful impact on the environment. Our edencleen range is designed for sustainable hygiene the right way and includes toilet cleaner gel, washroom cleaner, drain maintainer, floor cleaner and urinal cleaner. Find out more about our range of edencleen products. Contact our team today, sales@cleenol.co.uk.