Frequently Asked Questions
Why should Firefighters use Hygenall?
Regular anionic based soaps and wipes are great for removing soot, but not for microscopic cancer causing metals and chemicals. In modern fires, burning materials can emit microscopic metal oxides that stick to skin and surfaces differently than soot, they stick through a strong electrostatic process. Hygenall's licensed patents and technologies replaces regular soaps by breaking the electrostatic bond between metal oxides and skin and then washes away metals along with soot, grime, germs and chemicals including drug residue such as Fentanyl: Hygenall Firefighter Products are FULL-SPECTRUM decontamination and cleaning technology. Cleans off Arsenic, Mercury, Lead, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, Cobalt, Antiomony, Manganese, Beryllium, Vanadium, Dirty Bomb Residue (including radioactive metals and oxides), Dioxins, Furans, Pesticides, Phthalates, Plastic Residues, Gas and Oil, Drug and Chemical Residue (such as Fentanyll, and many others!
What is Toxic Hand-off?
Unseen, microscopic metal dust sticks to skin through a strong positive electrostatic charge. Your body has a negative charge. Since washing with soap and water will not remove all the metals on your skin, you can carry metals home with you through a process identified by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as “Toxic Hand-Off”. Toxic Hand-Off addresses how lead dust can be transferred to other people and children. Click here for the white paper called Toxic Hand-Off.
How does Hygenall Work?
Hygenall’s licensed patents and patent pending technologies incorporate the use of cationic surfactants for metal removal, which works through electrostatic displacement and then washes away metals along with soot, grime, germs and chemicals including drug residue such as Fentanyl...Hygenall Firefighter Products are the best FULL-SPECTRUM decontamination and cleaning technology available.
How does Hygenall compare to the other wipes and soaps for the fire service?
Regular anionic based soaps and wipes are great for removing soot, but not for microscopic cancer causing metals, germs and chemicals. In modern fires, burning materials can emit metal oxides that stick to skin and surfaces differently than soot, they stick through a strong electrostatic process, which will not clean off very well, no matter how hard you scrub.
What is in Hygenall that makes it so effective?
The patent that Hygenall uses combines a cationic surfactant with a tiny amount of Citric Acid for skin health, and green “sustainable” ingredients which make a fresh cleaning product that is safe for wastewater, and in the case of wipes, safe for waste management. Hygenall products may contain one or more of the patented cationic surfactants for metal removal: hexadecyltrimethylamonium chloride (commercially known as Cetrimonium Chloride), Isostearamidopropyl Morpholine Lactate (ISML on some Hygenall labels, this is the most effective of the cationic surfactants – comes from corn!), and others.