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Has anyone thought about using this stuff to sanitize your tubs, ect...?

It says its safe around kids, food pets ....

Anyone want to try it and let me know how you make out? (just kidding).

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The acive Ingredient is - Sodium Hypochlorite: 0.0095%

A New Way to Sanitize Everyday
Clorox® Anywhere Hard Surface™ spray is a new way to sanitize. Clorox® Anywhere Hard Surface™ spray kills 99.9% of bacteria on hard non-porous surfaces but it doesn't leave any harmful residue and is as gentle as water. So, it's perfect for use around kids, pets and food.

Now you can easily sanitize those everyday hard surfaces like plastic cutting boards, children's toys, pet bowls and dish racks - all with one bottle. Since there are no harmful residues, there's no need to rinse after you spray. You can just spray and go.

Kills Common Bacteria
Clorox® Anywhere Hard Surface™ spray is strong enough to kill 99.9% of the common bacteria found in homes, including E. coli, Salmonella choleraesuis, Streptococcus pneumoniae (Strep) and Staphylococcus aureus (Staph).

Ive been using Pro Exotics solution mix with water. They sent my a sample free when I ordered some heat tape and it seems to work well. I would be interested to know if you can use that clorox anywhere spray, it would make restocking alot cheaper and easier if i could just get it at the local super market instead of having to order it.
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Ya know I saw that commercial and thought - hey I need to get some of that stuff - but hadn't even dawned on me to use it in the snake cages. Just wondering if snake feces is categorized as common household bacteria? LOL
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Tosha

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What that stuff is is an extremely waek bleach solution. Sodium hypochlorite is the active ingredient in bleach. Normal household "ultra" belach is about 6%. You can mix up your own for pennies on the dollar.

Since the concentration is so weak, my guess is that you would have to saturate a surface and leave it for several minutes to actually kill anything. (I don't have the stuff, so read the directions).

I actually use a stronger concentration of bleach solution as my sanitizing spray. I usually cut it 1 part bleach to 9 parts water, making my concentration somewhere around 0.6%.

Are there additional chemical compounds in household bleach, like chlorine, that would be more harmful than this derivative alone?

Also, I wonder what a safe concentration would be to, let say, spray it on a rag and wipe the inside of the tub w/ animal present?

They show the lady spraying the Hard Surface stuff right on the kids high chair w/kid there on comercial?

Thanks for the info!

Alan

NO, standard bleach is sodium hypochlorite and water. It is commonly called "chlorine bleach", due to the hypochlorite ion(ClO 1-) which contains chlorine and oxygen.

I've seen the comercials as well. Obviosuly the stuff is extremely safe at that concentration. The active ingredient probably dissaates as the stuff dries.

ZAP spray bottle from Depot = $4.00

1 gallon household bleach = $2.50

Clean fecal free tubs = Priceless

while the snakes were in their cages. Remember, they're only working off of 1 lung and the evaporating bleach, however dilute will be in essence trapped in the cage. Actually, I would avoid anything that sprays around the snakes.

A few years ago I lost some of my corns while moving them to another room. I had them in the same (large)room as my washing machine and the ones I lost were closest to the washer. My thoughts are they died from the bleach fumes from doing a load of white laundry. Now you know that's not a lot of bleach in the air.

Bleach is fine if you rinse the cages well after using it. That would probably be a great hand sanitizer.

Cheryl

ZAP spray bottle from Depot = $4.00 dollar store $1.00

1 gallon household bleach = $2.50 dollar storee $1.50

I just did the quick math. One gallon of ultra bleach could be diluted with water to about 631.6 gallons of solution. In other figures, thats about 1 oz of bleach for 5 gallons of water.

Interestingly, thats the concentration reccomended in home brewing kits for sanitizing brewing supplies.

Again, I would suspect a long soak would be needed at that concentration to sterilize anything.

i use it at work and spray the hand rails, we had a bad flu get passed around the entire building because of the germs, i even have my co worker spray me with it...LOL

That new Clorox sanitizer is actually pretty good stuff. It's safe to use around animals, people and food because of it's weak concentration. It will kill everything that regular bleach will kill when left on the surface for 2 minutes, and no rinsing is necessary. I have several bottles all around my house. I use to make my own bleach solution but home made bleach solution has to be made every 24 hours. It starts to lose it's potency as soon as you mix it with water and after a certain period of time it is nothing more than salt water.

This Clorox sanitizer is stabilized and will last 1 year. Clorox isn't saying how they stabilize it to last a year, over our home made mix that lasts 24 hours. One other thing to think about, it sanitizes and disinfects but if you have dirt, feces, urates, etc. you need to clean that first then you can use the Clorox sanitizer to kill what bacteria remains. On the bottle it states that you need to clean the surface first, then spray to disinfect the surface. And to soak urates to remove them with Clorox sanitizer would be costly, so use a cheaper solution to clean and then mist the tub with the Clorox sanitizer.

I use Vircon S to clean all my cages. I've used Vircon S for over 3 years and it is great. It too loses it's potency, but it needs to be made fresh every couple of days, instead of every 24 hours. Virkon S is one of the best broad spectrum disinfectants I have found. I spent a lot of time researching the different disinfectants on the market and Virkon S is one of the best in my opinion. It kills viruses, bacteria both gram positve and gram negative, fungi (molds and yeasts) and so on. Here's the link so you can check it out for yourself. VIRKON S

If you want to make your own Clorox disinfectent which you have to make fresh everyday or each time you are going to use it, here is the recommended mixture. Use 3/4 cup of bleach to one gallon of water. So to make it, you need something that holds over a gallon because it means one gallon of water, not add water to make a gallon.

Hope this helps

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gail

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I certainly would not use it if the animal is present. Sodium Hypochlorite is the active ingredient in "bleach". Hypochlorite (OCl) is made up of oxygen and chlorine. Chlorine reacts with "ANY" moisture to form Hydrochloric Acid and Hypochlorous Acid. If chlorine is inhaled, it immediately forms these acids with moisture in the lungs and can severely burn them depending on the concentration. The same with any other moisture (i.e. eyes, nose, mouth, etc).
Chlorine gas was used in wartime combat. Since it is 2.5 times heavier than air, it dropped right into trenches killing many by suffocation while their lungs burned up.
Anyway, nowing this, I would be sure to rinse and dry enclosures dissinfected with bleach before returning the animal to it's enclosure. Bleach is an excellent and cheap dissinfectant and very safe if rinsed well, just don't skip the rinsing part.
Good luck!

what do yall recommend about Chlorahexadine (Spelling?)? I see it all the time in the classifieds, and mentioned else where, I am just skeptical of the "perfect" chemical that 100% safe. I could be wrong, so, does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks in advanced,

~Johnny