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The basic principle behind SONETT products is one of caring and being responsible for water, our main life force. The inspiration for developing Sonett washing and cleaning agents goes back to the research carried out by the scientist Johannes Schnorr at the Herrischried-based Institute of Flow Sciences in Germany in the late 1960s.

To determine the quality of water bodies and drinking water, Schnorr developed a method which, in addition to the conventional analysis of individual substances such as heavy metals, pesticides, organic chlorine compounds etc., also analysed the quality of water from a holistic perspective. This occurred with the aid of droplet imaging.

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The droplet imaging method is able to tell us something about the quality of the water as a life force and as a foodstuff. J. Schnorr used this method to prove the presence of tensides in drinking water. These tensides stemmed from the residual traces of washing and cleaning agents that Nature had not been able to degrade sufficiently. These residues were deposited in the groundwater as well as in lakes and rivers where they caused enormous mountains of foam to be generated at retaining weirs and locks. This happened in Germany in the 1960s, quite a time before laws were passed prescribing a minimum degradability for tensides.

The experience he had gathered using droplet imaging motivated J. Schnorr to develop a new environmentally friendly detergent. The criteria this new washing agent was expected to meet were therefore rapid yet complete biological degradability of all the ingredients contained in the given detergent combined with optimum economy in the use of raw materials.

This marked the birth of the Sonett modular concept, whereby the basic components of each and every detergent - washing-active substances, softeners, bleaching agents - are grouped to form 3 modules that can be dosed independently of one another. This enables the individual components to be dosed in a targeted and economic way, thereby taking into account the hardness of the local water supply and the type of washing needing to be done.
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