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Domestos is a British brand of household cleaning range which contains bleach (primarily sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl). It is manufactured by Unilever. Domestos (and Chlorox, essentially a 10–25% solution of sodium hypochlorite) contains 100,000 ppm (10%) of the active component, available chlorine; many other bleaches contain 50,000 or less.

Key facts

Brand.name
Domestos
Brand.logo
Domestos logo.png
Brand.producttype
Household Cleaning
Brand.currentowner
Unilever
Brand.country
United Kingdom
Brand.related
Domex (India, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka)Glorix (Netherlands)Promax (Thailand)Vim (Brazil, Argentina and Vietnam)Domesto (Japan)
Brand.markets
Worldwide

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
trademark
Owned by
Unilever
Official website
www.domestos.ru
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inception
1929-01-01
Commons category
Domestos
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • History
  • Product range
  • Marketing
  • In other countries
  • References and notes
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Domestos is a British brand of household cleaning range which contains bleach (primarily sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl). It is manufactured by Unilever. Domestos (and Chlorox, essentially a 10–25% solution of sodium hypochlorite) contains 100,000 ppm (10%) of the active component, available chlorine; many other bleaches contain 50,000 or less.

==History== Domestos was first produced in 1929 by Wilfred Handley, an industrial chemist, and sold door-to-door by salesmen in Newcastle upon Tyne who refilled stoneware jars bought by the customers. In 1961 the company was acquired by Lever Brothers.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Domestos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.