Lysol
Lysol is the brand name of the world's first disinfectant , which is now marketed by the British company Reckitt Benckiser . The name is used for the original cleaning concentrate as well as for room spray and cleaning cloths that have been mixed with the agent.
The main component of Lysol cleaning / disinfecting emulsion is chlorxylenol , the other Lysol cleaning agents mostly contain benzalkonium chloride . As a cleaning emulsion, it is highly concentrated and must be diluted in warm water before use . Lysol as a five percent concentrate has a bactericidal effect , above a five percent concentration it is insecticidal . At a concentration of just two percent, it is generally used for disinfecting rooms, furniture, clothing, toys and toilets as well as in veterinary medicine . Lysol's use in hospitals and laundries causes high pollution of the wastewater. To this day, this agent is used worldwide as a household cleaner.
history
_(14596950329).jpg)
Lysol was developed in 1889 by Gustav Raupenstrauch , who was then a department head at the chemical testing station and the food testing institute in Wiesbaden . He used crude carbolic acid , a mixture of phenol and isomeric methylphenols , which are obtained from coal and beechwood tar. In connection with potash soft soap , he was able to produce the water-soluble agent, which was patented that same year. In 1890 he switched to the newly founded company Schülke & Mayr in Hamburg , which concentrated on the production of Lysol. It was also introduced as an antiseptic and for prophylaxis against infectious diseases . From the beginning, important applications have been in surgery and obstetrics . With the Sagrotan , developed ten years later, there was a trademark dispute in which Schülke and Mayr were able to prevail in court.
A little later, the US company Lehn & Fink Inc. from New York acquired a production license and began producing for the US market from 1912. From the late 1920s the company marketed a product for feminine hygiene under the name “Lysol”. The agent was also used for contraception by means of vaginal irrigation . This method is said to have been the most popular birth control method from the 1930s to the 1960s. American advertising attested a high level of safety and effectiveness through references from European doctors.
In Europe, Lysol was first used successfully against the cholera epidemic of 1892 and then against the so-called " Spanish flu ", which raged in large parts of Europe from 1918 to 1920.
In 1967 Lehn & Fink was bought by Sterling Drug. Sterling Drug, now renamed Sterling Winthrop , was taken over by Reckitt Benckiser in 1994. The products introduced as trademarks have retained their names over the years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Emsley: Fries, fat and wrinkle cream: Even more chemistry in everyday life. Verlag Wiley-VCH, 2009 ISBN 9783527326204 p. 144.
- ↑ a b Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: Raupenstrauch, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 208 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Florian Langenscheidt : German Standards: Brands of the Century , Springer-Verlag 2006, p. 452, ISBN 978-3-834-90436-2
- ↑ Lehn & Fink Products Co. at library.hbs.edu .
- ↑ bottlebooks.com ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.).
- ↑ Daniel J. DeNoon: A History of Birth Control, Clearing Up Misconceptions; August 6, 2001 .
