Why do some cleaning products cloud up at higher temperatures but seem to improve in cleaning ability?
There is often some confusion here when talking about a chemicals cleaning or degreasing ability. The cloud point is usually an indicator of a cleaning agent or a surfactant reaching its maximum efficiency. Alabaster Corp. products contain multiple surfactants and each surfactant may have a different cloud point. You could estimate an average however, that could sill bee off depending upon various factors like how much water has been added to the original product. If this is a factor you should estimate based upon the lowest cloud point. Alabaster Corp. products may being to cloud at one temperature because of one ingredient and still work effectively because of other ingredients. The temperature issue is basically molecular activity. Molecules expand when heated. This is the reason the product will clean better after it reaches a higher temperature, within a certain range of course. In general, after the temperature becomes too high the surfactants will begin to fall out of solution a
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