Abstract: The present invention relates to a lemon juice-containing composition and its use for cleaning skin and/or hands. The composition comprises 5-30% by weight lemon juice or a lemon juice concentrate, 0.5-10% by weight phenoxyethanol, 2-60% by weight anionic surfactant and ad 100% by weight water. The composition is particularly suitable for the effective but at the same time skin-friendly removal of contaminants containing chlorophyll and/or other plant dyes, of plant juices/extracts and/or other plant parts, such as flower pollen and/or plant dusts, and/or of phytopathogens, fertilizer residues, herbicides, bactericides, fungicides, virucides and germination inhibitors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a carboxylic-acid-containing cleaning agent for removing stains of vegetable origin and/or for decontaminating surfaces contaminated by plant-protection agents. The agent comprises 20-60 wt. % of an aliphatic C1-C10 carboxylic acid, preferably formic acid, or a mixture of two or more of such aliphatic carboxylic acids which preferably comprises formic acid, at least one surfactant, preferably an anionic surfactant and/or at least one non-ionic surfactant, and water and/or solvent as the remainder. In another aspect, the present invention relates to specific carboxylic-acid-containing cleaning agents for hard surfaces, which agents are particularly suitable for the intended use.

Abstract: The invention relates to ecologically-acceptable agent for treating pathogenic germs on surfaces, instruments and in fluids, comprising synergistic mixtures of aromatic hydroxybenzoic acids and phenols with a broad spectrum of action. The above is active against hydrophilically-sheathed and -unsheathed viruses as well as lipophilic bacteria and yeasts and is thus applicable in medicine, industry and commercial animal raising.

Abstract: The invention relates to disinfecting agents for combating and inactivating phytopathogenic organisms for use on plants and in their environment. The agents are based on a mixture of anionic, active surfactants, aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acids, glycols, hydrotropic agents and aliphatic, monovalent alcohol, and are characterized in that they contain, together with hydrotropic agents and monovalent alcohols, a combination of aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acids determined from alkyl- and/or alkylarylsulfonates as well as contain glycols determined individually or in a mixture as solvent.

Abstract: The invention relates to ecologically-acceptable agent for treating pathogenic germs on surfaces, instruments and in fluids, comprising synergistic mixtures of aromatic hydroxybenzoic acids and phenols with a broad spectrum of action. The above is active against hydrophilically-sheathed and -unsheathed viruses as well as lipophilic bacteria and yeasts and is thus applicable in medicine, industry and commercial animal raising.

Abstract: A method for disinfecting an aqueous system which comprises contacting the system with a solid aromatic percarboxylic acid having solubility in water not greater than about 1 weight-percent in a weight-percent amount in excess of said solubility in water; and a method for disinfecting materials with said aqueous system.