Posted on 09/27/2015 12:49:26 AM PDT by Swordmaker
IMPORTANT! HEALTH WARNING!
FOR ALL FREEPERS WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE BAKING SODA AND CLOROX-DAKIN'S SOLUTION PROTOCOL FOR ORAL HYGIENE AND TOOTH BRUSHING!!!
The CLOROX Company has changed its basic Clorox formula to make it "concentrated" but has ALSO added LAUNDRY chemicals!
I just went to the Clorox™ website because I noticed the "concentrated" label on that bottle you linked to and it worried me. . . I wanted to check what the concentration of Sodium Hypochlorite was in their "concentrated" product. . . and to my horror I learned that Clorox has CHANGED their entire product line. . . and their cap coding too!!!!
Clorox has just CHANGED all the formulas for CLOROX!!!!! They have tossed out the good old stand-by that has been a century old and replaced it with JUNK New formula with adulterations!!! They are also using the SAME COLOR CAP ON EVERY VARIETY!!!!!! They've thrown the baby out with the bathwater. I would NOT, REPEAT NOT!!! use any CLOROX product for hygienic use on the human body until further notice!!!!!
All of their Clorox Bleach Products now are being sold with the same color blue cap, instead of their old color coded cap system, where the dark blue cap indicated an unadulterated pure Sodium Hypochlorite Bleach product. Now they ALL have the dark blue cap! But that doesn't matter because ALL products have adulterations.
They do not make it easy to lean what the concentration is, but WORSE ALL of the Clorox products are now ADULTERATED with laundry additives.
Even the Product Safety Sheets do not list the concentrations of the ingredients. . . nor is the old original pure Clorox even listed any more. Apparently such data is now a corporate secret.
There seems to be no pure bleach Clorox anymore. I cannot find the old product at all on their website! At this point I do not know what substitutes there are for the discontinues product. . . but do NOT feel safe by using any Clorox product in your mouth!
For example their Regular Clorox now includes: "Sodium polyacrylate is used in laundry detergents to prevent soils from depositing on fabrics during the laundry cycle."
Another with the another blue cap bleach bottle which just says "Clorox" but at the bottom lists "High Efficiency" also adds an additional ingredient of "Sodium Xylene Sulfanate"!
I have sent an email to our doctors appraising them of the situation because this has been an important product for protocols for tooth and health care in our implant Dentistry practice.
WHAT IN HELL ARE THEY THINKING!!!!
I will find out what our doctor's fall back position is, what other chlorine bleach, is as good or almost as good as Clorox used to be, to replace what is no longer available for this purpose.
Other wise, the new stuff is good for laundry and other uses, and KEEP what you have on hand of the original Clorox for your oral hygiene.
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Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Bttt
I wonder if any el-cheapo generic store brand bleaches have the right formula?
MSDS = Material Safety Data Sheet.
/johnny
Probably the have the right formula, but how about purity of concentration?
It does but not in percentage or concentration. Nor did the Cloros MSDS page list the venerable old standby pure Clorox as a product any more. RATS! They simply don't make it.
Thanks for the update. Pretty amazing that companies can decide to not list ingredients in a chemical solution for home use.
I can think of where I can find the Mil-Spec info on the shelf, but I don't have access to those anymore. ;)
/johnny
Why can’t you make your own chlorine bleach?
I had no way to determine strength, but you could certainly smell the chlorine.
It was a lot of work and time for what I was willing to invest. Easier to just buy a bottle. ;)
/johnny
You can. . . touchy stuff though. Just remember to add the acid to the water. Or run chlorine gas through H2O. . . but controlling the concentration you want is difficult. Clorox started at a 7% concentration and we cut it by 20 to 1, so the final concentration is 1/20th of 7% or 0.35% Sodium Hypochlorite. The half life of that low a concentration is about 15 minutes so long as it is mass. . . put it on a surface and it will change instantly to salt water.
We may switch our patients to Ozonated water. . . I've been thinking of buying an Ozone generator and an O2 Bottle, regulator and Ozonating my own. . . it's even more effective than the Clorox solution. Ozone treatments will cure almost anything including Ebola. . . if they'd let the doctors who went over to treat the patients with it, do it. They DID cure several of the medical staff they were training before they were shut down and kicked out of the country by the politicians.
The problem is that the adulterations are there and that is the killer to using their products anyway. The MSDS on the chemicals are well known, that isn't the problem. . . the problem would be finding exactly what contraction The Clorox Company is using in any one particular product OF that chemical to know how much to dilute it. They used to tell you exactly that Clorox was 7% Sodium Hypochlorite plus or minus 3% of the 7%. So we could know that by cutting it 20 to 1 with water, we'd wind up with a close enough 0.35% Sodium Hypochlorite Dakin's Solution for external and internal medical use.
Now, they are selling what they merely call "Concentrated" Clorox without explaining what that means. Clorox went from a 96Oz. bottle to a 67Oz. bottle, and changed the amount used from a full cup to half-cup to a load of laundry. . . but they also included adulterations that "extend effectiveness of the main ingredients", so you tell me. I am at a loss to tell except to get some and analyze it. . . but because of the adulterations, that's not worth the effort for our purposes any more.
I have been using bleach to disinfect water bottles. So now I will have to use something else?
Your outrage does not conform to your screen name.
I noticed awhile back at Walmart that all the caps were the same color of blue, and none of the jugs had the just plain old Clorox label. I wondered why they quit carrying regular old Clorox as some folks use it to kill bad things in their Drinking water...guess those days are gone forever.
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