I was spraying my son’s highchair down with Clorox sanitizing spray the other day and I realized that I was flushing money down the toilet in an naive effort to protect my son by paying for something that I could have made for WAY less. After reading the bottle, I found out that it contains 0.0095% sodium hypochlorite and 99.9905% “other ingredients”. I’ve come to realize that the “other ingredients” are little more than vinegar and water. Crap.
In my research, I discovered that EPA.gov has the clear instructions for their version of such a spray is listed: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/chemicals/bleachfactsheet.htm
From my understanding of this, I need to add 2 cups of water to 1 cup of bleach. Then add 1 cup of vinegar and then add 6 more cups of water, mix, spray, let sit and done. Sounds kinda like the directions on the sanitizing spray, huh?
Tags: babies, Cleaning, clorox, frugal, Kids, sanitizing spray, tightwad, toddlers
January 9, 2008 at 12:44 am
very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader
January 13, 2008 at 8:04 pm
This gives a 5000 ppm solution according to the site. That’s 0.5% which is 50x stronger than the Clorox stuff. Change the 1 C bleach to 1 teaspoon and 1C vinegar to 1 teaspoon and it’ll be a lot closer. No wonder it’s safe to use. It has less chlorine in than a pool.
So, $3.49 for water with a splash of vinegar and bleach? Not for me thanks.
BTW, that 99.9% “germ” killing only includes bacteria and then only on hard, non-porous surfaces that you keep wet for two full minutes.