“Splashless” Clorox bleach: Only ingredients statement sanitize.

Mouseprint ^ | November 19, 2018 | Edgar (aka MrConsumer)

[Rabin]

According to the company, they came out with a thicker splashless variety, and the regular type which could inadvertently splatter where it was not intended. The exact amount of the disinfectant, sodium hypochlorite, is stated on the regular product, it is conspicuously missing on the splashless variety. Surprise, surprise, the splashless version does not disinfect or sanitize.

[Rabin]

Mmm u hu yep. Somableach.

Rab

[nikos1121]

Interesting. I like this product. It whitens my towels nicely without the risk of burning holes in the fabric. I’m wondering if combining the two would work.

[LibWhacker]

I’ve been buying the splashless variety for about a year now and I’ve liked it. Now I don’t. Thanks.

[farming pharmer]

I’ll have to check on this when I get home. We have some in the wash room.

[ConservativeMind]

It looks like it could be sufficient, but could require up to 6X more to disinfect.

It has between 1% and 5% sodium hypochlorite.

[pepsi_junkie]

For what it's worth, we used to use clorox to chlorinate our pool (because the regular pool chlorine tablets all had stabilizer in them and we kept getting way too much building up in our pool). You can not use the splashless for pool chlorination. Maybe it's because it's thick, maybe it's because it has additives, maybe it's less 'good', I don't know. But that's what all the guides said, never use splashless.

We got so sick of dealing with this BS that we switched to saltwater and it's been smooth sailing ever since.

[BwanaNdege]

Learn to do a bit of research and read.

https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Clorox-Splash-Less-Bleach1.pdf

Chemical Name - - -%
Sodium hypochlorite - - - 3-7

[sonova]

Regular consumer bleach does not have a long shelf life.
Looks like bleach, smells like bleach, but the sanitizing portions decay.

When mixed with water at recommended sanitizing ratios, the solution is good for 24 hours only!

(Again looks like, smells like, but does not disinfect.)

[sonova]

Regular consumer bleach does not have a long shelf life.
Looks like bleach, smells like bleach, but the sanitizing portions decay.

When mixed with water at recommended sanitizing ratios, the solution is good for 24 hours only!

(Again looks like, smells like, but does not disinfect.)

[mabarker1]

Buy Pool Shock and dilute it down to 5%.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

we switched to saltwater and it's been smooth sailing ever since.

I agree 100% - we've had pools without and with, and the saltwater pools are better in every conceivable way.

[rockinqsranch]

The splashless Clorox is a P.I.A. cleaning the algae out of horse watering troughs, and barrels. Have to rinse over, and over again to get the suds out. Use only the regular bleach.

[goodnesswins]

So, full strength vinegar is better?

[Right Wing Assault]

Section 15 shows Sodium Hydroxide. (Didn't see a %. That would be nice to know.)

That's lye. Used as drain cleaners and oven cleaners. Can discolor aluminum.

"Sodium hydroxide does not produce systemic toxicity, but is very CORROSIVE and can cause severe burns in all tissues that it comes in contact with. Sodium hydroxide poses a particular threat to the eyes, since it can hydrolyze protein, leading to severe eye damage."

From Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

[Yardstick]

Guessing they dropped sanitization from the label not because of a lack of sodium hypochlorite but because of the added sodium hydroxide and surfactants — aka lye and soap/detergent. In the restaurant industry it’s the norm to do a final wipe down of everything with a dilute bleach solution. I’m not sure you’d want to leave a film of soapy lye on surfaces.

[newzjunkey]

I also note their scented bleached are not “registered disinfectants” and since the lemon scented has been our bleach of choice we’re not really impressed right now.

[TexasGator]

Use soap and detergents

[sonova]

So, full strength vinegar is better?

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I do not know. I have never seen vinegar used in a biological lab.

[goodnesswins]

I just did more research...vinegar best for cleaning food...questionable for other...but have never seen anywhere citing 1 day viability

[Steely Tom]

A close friend of mine, a retired teacher — born in the early 1940s, so now almost 80 — told me of how one of his uncles made a living making bleach in his back yard and selling it from a pushcart in our town.

I said "what do you mean, he 'made bleach'?"

He answered that he had a big tank set up on a sort of trestle apparatus he made himself. He mixed water and chemicals (undoubtedly one chemical, sodium hypochlorite) in the tank, stirred it by hand, dispensed it into one-gallon glass jugs, and sold it from door to door around the city.

He told me that he had to help his uncle by cleaning the tank, that undissolved material would build up in the bottom and he was small enough to fit through the hatch into the tank, where he would sweep the residue with a broom and dustpan and dump it outside. He said the smell was terrible.

Just an example of the things people did to get by in the time before welfare, before OSHA, etc. In our town there was a big chemical factory that made products from the abundant sources of brine that can be found by digging down a little bit in certain areas (it's why we're called the "Salt City"). Sodium hypochlorite was one of the products they sold, and it was undoubtedly very cheap if purchased at the factory loading dock. Might even have been "free," for all I know (wink, wink).

My teacher friend's parents and grandparents were immigrants to America from southern Italy. His father sold vegetables from a pushcart, as an immigrant child in Boston and then as a young adult in my city, after marrying another Italian immigrant's daughter in Boston. His uncle followed from Boston, probably because he got wind of (or figured out for himself) the home-made bleach business.