Renuzit cleaning fluid was originally produced by Radbill Oil Co. of
Philadelphia in 1932,[1] which became Renuzit Home Products Company sometime before 1947.[2] The company was acquired by
Drackett in 1969 (a child company of
Bristol-Myers, which merged with
Squibb in 1989).
In 1992,
Bristol-Myers Squibb sold Drackett to
S. C. Johnson & Son, at which point, the
Federal Trade Commission ordered S.C. Johnson to divest itself of Renuzit and certain other products within a year, and not purchase any other company making air fresheners for 10 years. The following year, S.C. Johnson sold Renuzit to the
Dial Corporation.[3] In 2004, Dial became a subsidiary of
Henkel.[4]
