No challenge. It’s easy.
The only ingredient that gives me worry is the use of cellulase enzymes. They disassemble paper like record labels. Printing ink partially protects but, eventually, your record labels could start getting soft and fraying. Record covers use coated stock; calendered paper with a greater content of clay so they are more resistant. Do you want to experiment?
The remaining ingredients are safe. They are specific enzymes; ingredients for moisture retention (enzymes need water as a carrier
low powered acid to repel contaminants & strengthen vinyl and cleaner preservatives to retard unwanted surface growth that need oxygen.
The one problem I see that we do not know the amount, the percentages, of ingredients used in your commercial cleaner.
You are on the right track. It is beyond the scope of this forum to explain enzyme cleaners radically different cleaning processes. But I will touch on a few.
Use the cleaners highly diluted. They are accelerator cleaners. They use contaminants as fuel. Dirt is complex and the cleaner breaks complex dirt. The cleaners help contaminants complete their ‘life-cycle.’ Dirt life completed, they are rendered fractured & dysfunctional so they fall away – rendered back to basic elements, compounds and odd bits.
Enzymes are Mother Nature’s protein keys to unlocking dirt. The proteins are far smaller than dirt so dirt has no defense. Enzymes are Mother Nature’s fail-safe. Every organic cell contain 1,300 dormant enzymes. Yes, you already own them.
The cleaner is like throwing matchsticks into a fireworks factory. Freed, those 1,300 now rebel enzymes overwhelm and ‘feed off’ other contaminants so an instantly an adaptive chain-reaction blooms. Again – dirt falls apart like puzzles parts and float away.
It is automatic cleaning. When the dirt-fuel is completely consumed then cleaning stops.
There is so much more. I’ll just say a couple. These cleaners are biological but the ones we use are not alive: they cannot grow or reproduce. E-cleaners only attack dead organic material so both vinyl is and we are safe. Most are “green.” Concentrated, the cleaner lasts for years. Diluted, best to use within a year.
The problem with enzyme cleaners is that they are too good. They generate a lot of litter. Records will sound noisy. Cleaning records with these cleaners is really a two-step process. A second conventional cleaner has a much easier job of rinsing the aftermath away.
Used correctly, we get the instant return to first-play fidelity. Conical tip cartridges sound like elliptical ones. Elliptical sound like fancy. And fancy ones – why bother? Save money.
So much more but I’ll stop. I use a variety ingredients in my easy & low-cost home-brew enzyme cleaner but do not use paper-destroying enzymes.
Told you it is easy. Convincing the world is much harder!
