How to Find Eco-Friendly Dry Cleaners

The term "dry cleaning" clothes is a misnomer. The process actually involves processing clothes in a liquid solvent to remove soil and stains.

The process of using chemicals instead of water to clean clothes began with the Romans who used ammonia distilled from urine to clean woolen togas. The process of dry cleaning evolved through the centuries until the 1930s when a chlorinated solvent, perchloroethylene, became the leading method for cleaning fabrics without using water.

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