Magic sponge is also called Magic eraser, it is a staple in the cleaning aisle of the super market, and used as a floor pad in standard cleaning machines too.
The secret behind magic erasers, easy Erasing Pads and similar products is a material which called melamine foam,an improved cleaning version. The melamine resin foam is used in cleaning trading for polishing, scrubbing, and removing layers of grease and heavy dirt. It drives time and cost saving in household application and professional floor cleaners.
Different from other cleaning products,melamine foam with just few water can dig in and destroy stains that other products can’t reach effectively,no chemical cleaners or soaps required. Thanks to its abrasive properties, the eraser works like a soft sandpaper. In addition, the foam is deemed to be harmless to health when used or processed, no substances that are harmful to health are released or absorbed through the skin. The only downfall is that melamine foam eraser wear out quickly, just like pencil erasers do. However, Melamine sponge is used very successfully as a household cleaning eraser.
To all outward appearances, melamine foam erasers look and feel just like any other sponge, the crucial properties of melamine foam is the microscopic level. This is because when melamine resin cures into foam, its micro-structure becomes very hard, almost as hard as glass, causing it to perform on stains a lot like super fine sandpaper. You may be asking yourself, if this foam is almost hard as glass, then how could it be like a sponge? Because it is a special type of open-cell foam. For Open-cell foam(typically the more flexible) imagine that those balls have burst, but some sections of their casings still remain. You can picture a squishy sea sponge as an example. In airy melamine foam, only a very limited amount of casing stays in place, and the strands that do are located where the edges of several air pockets overlapped. The foam is flexible because each tiny strand is so slender and small that bending the entire eraser is easy.
The cavity-ridden open micro-structure of melamine foam is where the second major boost to its stain-removing capabilities comes in. With a few quick runs of the eraser,the stains has already started to go away. That’s aided by the fact that the dirt is pulled into the open spaces between the spindly skeletal strands and bound there. These two factors combined make the eraser seem almost magically.
Post time: Oct-30-2022