After rinsing off your wooden cutting board, pour peroxide on it to kill salmonella and other bacteria-Truth!The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved hydrogen peroxide as a sanitizer.
Fill a spray bottle with a 50/50 mixture of peroxide and water and keep it in every bathroom to disinfect without harming your septic system like bleach or most other disinfectants will-But be sure you put the mixture into a bottle that filters out sunlight. Also, it appears that hydrogen peroxide does not harm septic systems. Again, this is probably a mixture of 50% water with the other half being 3% or 30% strengths of hydrogen peroxide.
Cleaning with hydrogen peroxide - also referred to as H2O2 - is one of the easiest ways to make sure that you provide a safer, cleaner space, with lower bacteria levels, but without the risk of the toxicity that is sometimes associated with cleaners. By cleaning with hydrogen peroxide, you not only protect the health of your employees and the other building users, but you also help to reduce the damage that is done to the environment.
Hydrogen peroxide is a great all around all purpose house cleaning agent and works very well on most surfaces. It is also great at killing molds and mildews, and pesky bacteria. Many of the benefits of hydrogen peroxide begin with its value in killing germs. I've been using hydrogen peroxide for years, and some of my favorite uses are for disinfection. Hydrogen peroxide helps keep things from getting gross, and helps to clean up things that have already gotten gross....
To clean floors
You’ll probably want to use hot water, so the easiest way to accomplish this (and also use a 3% solution of hydrogen peroxide), is to put a gallon of hot water into a bucket and then add 1 cup of 35% hydrogen peroxide. Use the temperature water you’d like to use on the floor, and then add the concentrated peroxide.
Finally, if you don’t mind using cold water to clean the floor, you can just spray some 3% hydrogen peroxide onto the floor from your spray bottle. That's what I usually do. This also works well for day-to-day cleaning up gunk on the floor, and disinfects as you go along.
To clean toilets
Splash 3% hydrogen peroxide around the toilet rim and onto your toilet brush, then scrub the toilet as usual. Also use 3% hydrogen peroxide on a sponge to clean the rest of the toilet surfaces, and the floor around the toilet.
If the toilet is stained, adding a small amount (maybe a cup?) of 35% hydrogen peroxide to the toilet bowl, and leaving it overnight will help a lot. This only works on the area that is under the water, however, not stains above the water level. For heavy duty stains, you may need to repeat this treatment.
Advantages of using hydrogen peroxide for cleaning
First off, it is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-mold and anti-mildew. Whew!
Secondly it is non-toxic for people, plants, household animals, and the earth. (Don’t forget that whatever household cleaners you use do end up going back to the earth, rivers and oceans eventually. In most cases, cleaning products will go through the sewage system first, but it all goes back to the environment eventually.)
Third, since hydrogen peroxide can be used for cleaning so many different things, it can simplify the number of different cleaning products you need to keep around. (This particular advantage occurs to me more over time, as I’m slowly using hydrogen peroxide for more different kinds of cleaning.)
Fourth, bought in concentrated form and in bulk, using hydrogen peroxide for cleaning is very inexpensive.
And, finally, using hydrogen peroxide for cleaning tends to keep your sponges, mops, and scrubie pads a whole lot cleaner. (They'll all get a bit of disinfecting every time you use them.)
There are different types of hydrogen peroxide. I use food grade hydrogen peroxide, in general, for everything. (The other grades of hydrogen peroxide tend to have some stabilizers in them. Since I buy 35% food grade peroxide in large amounts, it is easy to use it for everything.)
Fill a spray bottle with a 50/50 mixture of peroxide and water and keep it in every bathroom to disinfect without harming your septic system like bleach or most other disinfectants will-But be sure you put the mixture into a bottle that filters out sunlight. Also, it appears that hydrogen peroxide does not harm septic systems. Again, this is probably a mixture of 50% water with the other half being 3% or 30% strengths of hydrogen peroxide.
Cleaning with hydrogen peroxide - also referred to as H2O2 - is one of the easiest ways to make sure that you provide a safer, cleaner space, with lower bacteria levels, but without the risk of the toxicity that is sometimes associated with cleaners. By cleaning with hydrogen peroxide, you not only protect the health of your employees and the other building users, but you also help to reduce the damage that is done to the environment.
Hydrogen peroxide is a great all around all purpose house cleaning agent and works very well on most surfaces. It is also great at killing molds and mildews, and pesky bacteria. Many of the benefits of hydrogen peroxide begin with its value in killing germs. I've been using hydrogen peroxide for years, and some of my favorite uses are for disinfection. Hydrogen peroxide helps keep things from getting gross, and helps to clean up things that have already gotten gross....
To clean floors
You’ll probably want to use hot water, so the easiest way to accomplish this (and also use a 3% solution of hydrogen peroxide), is to put a gallon of hot water into a bucket and then add 1 cup of 35% hydrogen peroxide. Use the temperature water you’d like to use on the floor, and then add the concentrated peroxide.
Finally, if you don’t mind using cold water to clean the floor, you can just spray some 3% hydrogen peroxide onto the floor from your spray bottle. That's what I usually do. This also works well for day-to-day cleaning up gunk on the floor, and disinfects as you go along.
To clean toilets
Splash 3% hydrogen peroxide around the toilet rim and onto your toilet brush, then scrub the toilet as usual. Also use 3% hydrogen peroxide on a sponge to clean the rest of the toilet surfaces, and the floor around the toilet.
If the toilet is stained, adding a small amount (maybe a cup?) of 35% hydrogen peroxide to the toilet bowl, and leaving it overnight will help a lot. This only works on the area that is under the water, however, not stains above the water level. For heavy duty stains, you may need to repeat this treatment.
Advantages of using hydrogen peroxide for cleaning
First off, it is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-mold and anti-mildew. Whew!
Secondly it is non-toxic for people, plants, household animals, and the earth. (Don’t forget that whatever household cleaners you use do end up going back to the earth, rivers and oceans eventually. In most cases, cleaning products will go through the sewage system first, but it all goes back to the environment eventually.)
Third, since hydrogen peroxide can be used for cleaning so many different things, it can simplify the number of different cleaning products you need to keep around. (This particular advantage occurs to me more over time, as I’m slowly using hydrogen peroxide for more different kinds of cleaning.)
Fourth, bought in concentrated form and in bulk, using hydrogen peroxide for cleaning is very inexpensive.
And, finally, using hydrogen peroxide for cleaning tends to keep your sponges, mops, and scrubie pads a whole lot cleaner. (They'll all get a bit of disinfecting every time you use them.)
There are different types of hydrogen peroxide. I use food grade hydrogen peroxide, in general, for everything. (The other grades of hydrogen peroxide tend to have some stabilizers in them. Since I buy 35% food grade peroxide in large amounts, it is easy to use it for everything.)
(Cut and pasted by a commenter off the Internet.... Source anonymous to me.)
3 comments:
Yeah, I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that if one person gets sick, we all get sick. I've tried Lysol and hand sanitizer and stuff like that, but until we all stop sharing spit in some way or other (sharing cups, kissing little noses and cheeks, coughing, etc) we're all getting sick.
Sorry...
I use white vinegar for cleaning. I read that it is also a disinfectant, but I imagine that Peroxide may be a little more powerful and perhaps better for the bathroom.
Thanks for the tip. Do you need to worry about any bleaching action or is it diluted enough that that is not a problem?
Blessings,
Kimberly
Im not sure as I haven't tried it yet. My husband said that it doesn't bleach but is just a solution that would wear down the surfaces more than a typical cleaner would.....
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