What is Environmentally safe dry cleaning?

 To truly appreciate the difference, it's important to first understand the basics of dry cleaning. Dry cleaning is so called because it does not use water. It still involves a washing-like machine called - that's right - a dry cleaning machine, but instead of water being pumped into the drum and the garments being 'washed' in water, a solvent is used instead. Traditionally, dry cleaning is performed in a solvent called percholorethylene, but modern solvents also include hydrocarbon which is what we have chosen to use in our systems.  Hydrocarbon is considered environmentally safe for the planet and you.

Because clothes cleaned in Hydrocarbon aren’t bathed in perc or other petrochemical solvents, they come back fresh and clean without the traditional unpleasant “dry cleaning” odour. Hydrocarbon is also very gentle on clothes. You can actually see and feel the difference it makes. Colors don’t fade and whites don’t gray or yellow the way they do in traditional dry cleaning, even after repeated cleaning. Everything feels better too. Fabrics are smooth and silky, and woolens feel soft and supple again.

Hydrocarbon's gentle cleaning carefully carries the detergent to your clothes and gently washes away the dirt and oil. It also is very light in weight and has a very low surface tension, allowing it to gently penetrate fabric fibers and rinse away dirt in a way that water or perc cannot, so it cleans without being abrasive or aggressive, leaching dyes or damaging trims. That’s why it is such a safe and effective green cleaner for even the most delicate garments–beads, delicate lace, silk, cashmere, you name it.