We live in a world of grime and stains that occur on our walls of our homes, inside of our vehicles and in our workplace. Most of these grimes and stains occur from having children, however in some of our workplaces, not so much from children. In order for us to combat and clean up these stains and grimes, the Magic Eraser was introduce in 2003 by Proctor and Gamble. Over the years it has endured great success. In this assignment, I will use a reliable source and an unreliable source to explain the key ingredient that makes this product work so well, this ingredient is melamine foam. Melamine foam is manufactured in Germany and is used as an insulation for pipes and ductwork. Melamine foam is also used as soundproof for studios and auditoriums. Melamine foam isn’t 100% fire proof, but has a very low smoke and fire properties, thus making it a non-hazardous material. I chose this topic as I have small children who like to use my walls as their canvas. They like to use crayons, pens, pencils mostly for their work. If their art work is of something that they were really proud of, I will take a picture of their work with them standing next to it so we can reflect back on that moment. However, if it’s just scribble, well, then this is where the magic eraser comes in handy. I can wipe the wall clean and one could never tell that my small children performed any kind of art work on the wall. With that, the first resource I chose on the magic eraser and the material melamine foam that its made of was from of course Wikipedia. I like to use Wikipedia for a quick reference source, however for academics purpose, is unreliable. Anyone can edit the information in Wikipedia without knowing the true facts on a topic, thus making its source unreliable. For my next source, my reliable source, comes from the website AsianGlory, which is a company out of Hong Kong. They are producers of the foam and one can order this product from them. Their site gives detailed facts of the foam from being flame retardant to being an insulation to a cleaning product. This information they are offering to the public is a reliable source as they are selling the product. Also, they also maintain their site, whereas no one can edit their own information on there. In the two articles, Wikipedia, although intended for good and screened for accuracy as much as possible, cannot catch all factual and unfactual information added to their site. As for AsianGlory, they are clearly in the market to sell the product and have engineers testing the product so they can inform the public to make a sound decision in buying the product.

Reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine_foam http://www.mrclean.ca/en_CA/through-the-years.do
http://www.asianglorychem.com/Products/264.html