It seams that the best formula for a window cleaning product that is sprayed on and wiped off with paper towels is a 70 percent solution of alcohol and thirty percent pure water. You definitely would not want to use any amount of ethylene glycol monobutylether (EB) to give your product a bit more cut. I suggest using a nanoparticle below, but there might be an additional nontoxic green chem that can be added. Check out the toxicology info one the net for EB. It is not good. Some have added various surfactants and propellants but the detergents even in very low concentration tend to cause filming and streaking. I would rather see some type of a nanoparticle (close to one micron) used in a permanent suspension to give the product that extra cut. Maybe a silica or an aluminum oxide. Then we could claim our product is based on nanotechnology. Anything at one percent or less does not have to be listed on the MSDS but can be written up as proprietary. Your MSDS writer will know. Of course the bottom line is simply that this method is certainly not the best one for cleaning windows. The best is either a squeegee or a water fed pole.
The idea of creating a one step glass cleaner for our commercial customers has been presented to me in the past. My thought was immediately that this would be heresy. We are window cleaners! But the more I think about it the more I realize it is virtually impossible to change the way people think. So why not give them the best? At a great profit. With a label that has our business name, address, website, and phone number. Do not sell a concentrate. That diminishes profit. Plus they just want to grab it, spray, and wipe. Sell it one gallon at a time with a small spray bottle they can refill. Maybe five small spray bottles at a time. They will use it for everything. We will even end up selling to our customers customers. Hows that for publicity? NOT advertising!
OK. Product liability is a concern. For this business (Glass Smart Products) I am starting at the end of October it will cost me about forty bux a month based on a 25,000 dollar sales volume a year. You might want to do your own MSDS. There are professional writers for that. A quick search on the net is all you need to locate one. Of course the easiest way to get around the MSDS might be to find a commercial product already existing that meets the formula criteria, change their label to your own, buy your own product liability, and use their MSDS by changing the heading at the top only. You could ask the insurance company and product manufacturer if this would be OK. Special precautions might be necessary in California.
I am trying to think of ways now that I can increase the bux I make from my store accounts. Currently I have 110. Looking to boost for the winter. But. Why not sell add ons like other businesses? Add ons that promote publicity for my store front window cleaning biz. Like advanced window graphics supplies. Your store front customers' windows are their very best means of advertising. So why not take advantage of that?
Written by Henry Grover Jr.
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