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You are right the smell of green products is awesome.

I really would love to have a steamer that the one called Sargent Steamer. As I researched this post, learned about this product for the first time. Since it uses dry steam to clean, there are not chemicals. From the video tutorials on their website, cleaning a bathroom would be a breeze! Unfortunately, it is way out of my price range at this point.

Having four kids when one is sick or I know something is going around I tend to fall back on bleach, lysol and more disinfecting chemicals… things spread like wildfire in this house!!

Interesting post!

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First, common bleach is primarily chlorine. Chlorine is one of the basic elements on the periodic table of elements. You can’t get much more basic or natural than that. Now does that mean it’s safe to bathe yourself in any of the basic elements? Not necessarily. I wouldn’t recommend coating yourself in uranium. But the argument of whether or not something is natural, and how that should affect your decision to use it as a cleaning product is not really a good one.

Second, to make bleach you take a tub of simple salt-water and run electricity through it. (Don’t try this at home.) If you take any power cord from your house, cut it open, expose the positive wire and the negative wire, plug it in, and dip the exposed wires into the salt-water, gas bubbles will begin to rise off of each wire. One of those will be chlorine gas; the other will be sodium hydroxide (a compound of sodium, oxygen, and hydrogen – all basic, natural elements). When you mix the two back together again, you get sodium hypochlorite (a compound of sodium, oxygen, and chlorine – again, all natural). That compound, mixed with about 95% water is what you get when you buy chlorine bleach at the store.

Open up that jug of chlorine, take a big gulp, and you will quickly assume room temperature because you’ll be dead. Drink enough alcohol and the same thing will happen.

Carefully use small amounts of chlorine to clean and disinfect surfaces and laundry in your home, and everyone in your house is a lot less likely to die from a nasty bacterial or viral infection. Billions and billions of people around the world have died and continue to die from bacteria and viruses that can be easily wiped out with small amounts of chlorine. By comparison, hardly anyone dies from small amounts of bleach being used to clean their homes.

So think about your fellow humans and the global impact your actions will have on the spread of contagious diseases, and then do the responsible thing and use all natural bleach to protect the planet.

Have a great day!
Kristin

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