Question from Lea
Iam wondering if anyone knows of a “true” Organic, non toxic dry cleaner. There are advertised dry cleaners that use a chemical called DF2000 that seems to be about as organic as gasoline, but is being touted as “SAFE”. Compared to what it replaces I guess this might be true. I looked it up and DF2000 is described as a fluid PERC perchloroethylene and is a probable cancer causing chemical although it shows little immediate health risks. It is Manufactured by EXXon those stewards of the environment who dumped 30 million gallons of crude oil onto the Alaska shoreline. It seems as though the dry cleaners are banking big profits using the word “ORGANIC” for those of us who truly want to protect ourselves and the environment from toxic chemicals.
I want to clean my winter down comforters and they are too big and bulky to launder even at the laundromats BIG machines.
Can anyone help?
Debra’s Answer
I don’t know how to clean your comforters–readers?
With regards to the “organic” dry cleaners, any dry cleaners who uses the word organic in association with dry cleaning is using false and misleading advertising and should be reported to the Federal Trade Commission. The new chemicals are less toxic than the old ones, but there is nothing “organic” about them.
I don’t know that there is such a thing as organic dry cleaning or that there could be, as “dry cleaning” by its very nature is to use solvents to clean instead of water and soap or detergent.
