Organic Dry Cleaning is bullshit. Here's the brief rundown from ye olde soap-maker.
Most stains are fat-soluble. Some are protein-soluble, Ms. Lewinsky. Very few are water soluble.
Thus the solution in laundry is to use a soap or a detergent (yes, there's a slight difference) to remove the stain. One end of the molecule is water-soluble and the other end is fat-soluble, so it picks up the stain and carries it away in the rush of water.
For clothes that may be damaged by water, "dry cleaning" was invented which uses a hydrocarbon rather than water as the solvent. usually the hydrocarbon is a petroleum distillate. The hydrocarbon is usually a less effective solvent than water, but tends not to damage fibers as much.
Usually the hydrocarbon is going to be chemically similar to kerosene or Stoddard Solvent (the main ingredient in WD-40).
It is "organic" inasmuch as it has carbon molecules in it (and, as most petroleum distillates, is derived from the long-dead remains of something that kicked it in the carboniferous era).
There's no way to do dry cleaning without a petroleum distillate, unless they are washing your clothes in (an edible) oil, and then the issue remains of how to drive out the oil (you will again need a mineral spirit).
By "organic" they probably are trying to either cheat you or say that they recycle their fluid.
no subject
Most stains are fat-soluble. Some are protein-soluble, Ms. Lewinsky. Very few are water soluble.
Thus the solution in laundry is to use a soap or a detergent (yes, there's a slight difference) to remove the stain. One end of the molecule is water-soluble and the other end is fat-soluble, so it picks up the stain and carries it away in the rush of water.
For clothes that may be damaged by water, "dry cleaning" was invented which uses a hydrocarbon rather than water as the solvent. usually the hydrocarbon is a petroleum distillate. The hydrocarbon is usually a less effective solvent than water, but tends not to damage fibers as much.
Usually the hydrocarbon is going to be chemically similar to kerosene or Stoddard Solvent (the main ingredient in WD-40).
It is "organic" inasmuch as it has carbon molecules in it (and, as most petroleum distillates, is derived from the long-dead remains of something that kicked it in the carboniferous era).
There's no way to do dry cleaning without a petroleum distillate, unless they are washing your clothes in (an edible) oil, and then the issue remains of how to drive out the oil (you will again need a mineral spirit).
By "organic" they probably are trying to either cheat you or say that they recycle their fluid.