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Bar Keepers Friend is a powdered cleaning
product made by SerVaas Laboratories in the USA. Supposedly
invented by a Central Indiana chemist in the 1880s, it has since
become the base of a line of cleaning products by SerVaas, who
started producing and carrying the product under the Bar Keepers
Friend name in the 1950s. Unlike similar abrasive cleaning
products, such as Comet and Ajax, Bar Keepers Friend uses oxalic acid as its
active ingredient.[1]
In 1994, Consumer Reports found Bar Keepers
Friend to be on a par with Mr. Clean for removing baked-on soil, tea
stains and other pot stains, and better at removing rust.[2] While
there are a number of appropriate uses for it, experts warn that it
should never be used to clean silverware, real marble, or
pewter.[3]
The logo of Bar Keepers Friend represents the swinging doors of
a saloon. According to the President of SerVaas Laboratories,
Robert Silvers, although some people complained during Prohibition, "the name
was never changed. It's been Bar Keepers Friend since 1882." [4]
References
- ^
Indiana Business Magazine,
Friday, April 1, 1994
- ^
Indiana Business Magazine, Friday, April 1, 1994
- ^
Home-Ec 101: Using Bar Keepers
Friend, February 18th, 2009
- ^
Indiana Business Magazine, Friday, April 1, 1994
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