Challenger's Orbit Natural is presented as an all-natural product, and I assume it is. Works fine for me. As do both of the following: Outsolv, from Bioforce-Envirotech (www.bioforceinc.com) and Encap-Green, from Vacaway (www.vacaway.com) Encap-Green does include a polymer (a synthetic rather than a natural element), so if you are using it, I would use the term "bio-based" rather than all-natural. Very few customers will have any trouble with this.
I was presented with a free gallon of Envirex from CTI
ttp://www.baneclene.com/catalog/detail.asp?id=727&intPageNum=15&search=chemical&type=main&itemname=&name=CTI+Pro%92s+Choice+Brush+%26+Bonnet
and is bonnet cleaning always done with a dry pad?
Bonnet cleaning is a term I associate with a rotary floor machine (traditional 175-RPM buffer) and some kind of synthetic fiber pad, or bonnet, like those white rayon or nylon ones with the green stripes across them. As this site deals with orbital/oscillating (OP) machines, we usually talk in terms of "pad" cleaning. A pad is mostly cotton terrycloth, with a far higher level of absorbancy than the synthetic fiber bonnets. A pad may contain some level of synthetic fibers for added strength and durability, but it will be mostly terrycloth cotton.
Pads are usually used damp - immersed in water, then squeezed out either by hand in--or thru a wringer bucket.
I admit I sometimes use them dry, but when I do, I spray my cleaning solution onto the carpet a little more heavily than when I am usuing damp pads. If you are doing a demo for a prospective commercial customer, using the pads dry will result in a much greater visual contrast between the white, unsoiled part of the pad and the part that has been scrubbing the soil out of the carpet.
