With a parent that is best known for peddling its cheesecakes and croissants, Sara Lee International Household and Body Care is more focused on making products to keep its customers' shoes shiny and bugs at bay. As one of six Sara Lee Corporation business segments, the company sells branded items in about 200 countries. The segment manufactures a leading worldwide shoe polish and cleaner (Kiwi), air fresheners (Ambi Pur), and insecticides (Vapona, Catch, GoodKnight, Bloom, and Ridsect) sold primarily in Europe and Asia. Looking to unload its non-core interests, the company in 2009 agreed to sell its personal care products business to Unilever.

To Seventh Generation, green is good. The term means environmentally friendly and nontoxic. For the conscientious company, it's also money in the bank. It makes cleaning and laundry supplies, paper products, personal care items, and diapers and wipes under the Seventh Generation name, which is derived from the Iroquois practice of considering how decisions may affect the next seven generations. Suppliers make its products from recycled or renewable materials using nontoxic ingredients. Seventh Generation's products are sold in the US and Canada through natural goods stores, supermarkets, catalogs, and online. Owned by Jeffrey Hollender and a group of investors, the company hired a new CEO in mid-2009.

Stepan Company engages in the production and sale of specialty and intermediate chemicals. The company operates through three segments: Surfactants, Polymers, and Specialty Products. The Surfactants segment offers products that are principal ingredients in consumer and industrial cleaning products, such as detergents for washing clothes, dishes, carpets, floors, and walls, as well as shampoos, body washes, fabric softeners, and toothpastes. Its other applications include biodiesel, germicidal quaternary compounds, lubricating ingredients, emulsifiers for spreading agricultural products, and plastics and composites. The Polymers segment provides phthalic anhydride, which is used in polyester alkyd resins; plasticizers for applications in construction materials and components of automotive, boating, and other consumer products; and polyols that are used in the manufacture of laminate insulation board for the construction industry, as well as sold to the appliance, coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers markets. The Specialty Products segment offers flavors, emulsifiers, and solubilizers used in the food and pharmaceutical industries. It principally operates in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Northfield, Illinois.

The Clorox Company engages in the production, marketing, and sales of consumer products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Cleaning, Lifestyle, Household, and International. The Cleaning segment consists of laundry, home-care, professional products, and auto-care products. This segment offers its products under the Clorox, Clorox 2, Formula 409, Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol, S.O.S, Tilex, Green Works, Armor All, and STP brands. The Lifestyle segment offers food products, water-filtration systems, filters, and natural personal care products. This segment offers its products under the Hidden Valley, K C Masterpiece, Brita, and Burt’s Bees brand names. The Household segment provides charcoal, cat litter and plastic bags, wraps, and container products.This segment offers its products under the Glad, Fresh Step, Scoop Away, Ever Clean, Kingsford, and Match Light brand names. The International segment offers home-care, laundry, auto-care, water filtration, charcoal and cat litter products, dressings, plastic bags, wraps and containers, and insecticides under the Clorox, Javex, Glad, PinoLuz, Ayudin, Limpido, Clorinda, Poett, Mistolin, Lestoil, Bon Bril, Nevex, Brita, Armor All, STP, Green Works, Sabra, Pine-Sol and Agua Jane, Ever Clean, Chux, Kingsford, and Hidden Valley brand names. The company markets its products primarily through mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, grocery stores, direct sales force, distributors, Internet, retail outlets, and a network of brokers. The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 and is based in Oakland, California.

The Sun Products Corporation (formerly Huish Detergents) believes sunlight is truly the best disinfectant. The company makes laundry detergents and household cleaning products, such as floor and glass cleaners, oxygenated stain removers, prewash formulas, antibacterial soaps, bleach, and fabric softeners under the Sun brand name. It's also one of the largest US contract manufacturers of private-label brands for major retailers and makes personal care products under the White Rain brand. The company expanded in 2008 when its parent Vestar Capital Partners acquired Unilever's North American laundry brands (All, Wisk, Sunlight, Surf, and Snuggle) and merged the two businesses to form The Sun Products Corporation.

TSO3 helps clean up the medical industry in its own way. Using novel technology to replicate Earth's ozone layer, TSO3 develops and manufactures ozone sterilization processes and products that replicate these processes. The great majority of the company's customers are in the health care industry, such as workers in hospitals, clinics, universities, the pharmaceutical industry, and research centers. Its sterilizers are used to clean surgical and other heat-sensitive medical instruments. TSO3 was founded in 1998 in Quebec City as Technologies of Sterilization with Ozone.

Turtle Wax would have been one of those kitchen table success stories, except Ben and Marie Hirsch concocted their polish in the bathtub. In the 1950s they changed the name of their company from Plastone Polish to Super Hard Shell and later to Turtle Wax. Now led jointly by their daughter Sondra Healy and son Denis John Healy Jr., the family-owned firm makes more than 1,250 products, including car waxes, polishes, and cleaners and sells them in 90 countries. Other products include engine treatments, vinyl and leather protectants, and odor removers. Turtle Wax also supplies bulk chemicals to car washes and operates some 20 car washes in the Chicago and Kansas City areas.

Zep Inc. produces, markets, and services a range of cleaning and maintenance solutions for commercial, industrial, institutional, and consumer end-markets. Its product portfolio includes anti-bacterial and industrial hand care products, cleaners, degreasers, deodorizers, disinfectants, floor finishes, sanitizers, and pest and weed control products. The company markets its products under the brand names of Zep, Zep Commercial, Zep Professional, Enforcer, and Selig. It offers a line of products for institutional cleaning, sanitation and maintenance cleaning directly through industrial and institutional sales representatives under the Zep and Selig brands. Under the Zep Commercial and Enforcer brands, the company markets professional grade cleaning and maintenance products, as well as plumbing and weed and pest control products through convenient retail outlets. Under the Zep Professional brand, it offers a line of professional-strength cleaning and maintenance products to customers through industrial distributors. Zep Inc. sells its products to the transportation, food processing and service, manufacturing, government, hospitality, contractors, and small business owners primarily in the United States, Canada, and western Europe. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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