Sean Ray, Is there a particular type of cleaner you are looking for? What do you want to clean with it? If I run across something I will pass it along.
Carol > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sean Ray" <[email protected] >To: <[email protected] >Date sent: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:02:42 -0800 >Subject: {dbilg} Re: nontoxic cleaners >Speaking of non-toxic cleaners. There are certain recipies that you can make >up to creat your own natural cleaners. Does anyone know about this and if >so, could I ahve the recipe? >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Carol Osmar" <[email protected] >To: <[email protected] >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 8:05 AM >Subject: {dbilg} nontoxic cleaners >> Hi Marcy and all, I am still looking out for a nontoxic toilet >> bowl cleaner that you asked for. This one bleaches and >> disinfects so it might work as well in the bathroom as the >> kitchen. >> Carol >> DisinfectionVinegar and Hydrogen Peroxide as Disinfectants >> Copyright (c) March 1999 Judy Stouffer. All rights reserved. >> This article may not be copied or published anywhere, including >> in any electronic format, >> without specific permission from Judy Stouffer, B.S., M.S., SFO. >> You can make your kitchen a cleaner, safer place and fight >> bacteria, without exposing yourself and your family to toxic >> chemicals that also damage the environment. You can use a simple >> safe disinfecting spray that is more effective than any of the >> commercial cleaners in killing bacteria. As a bonus, it is >> inexpensive! >> Susan Sumner, a food scientist at Virginia Polytechnic >> Institute and State University, worked out the recipe for just >> such a sanitizing combo. All you need is three percent hydrogen >> peroxide, the same strength available at the drug store for >> gargling or disinfecting wounds, and plain white or apple cidar >> vinegar, and a pair of brand new clean sprayers, like the kind >> you use to dampen laundry before ironing. If you're cleaning >> vegetables or fruit, just spritz them well first with both the >> vinegar and the hydrogen peroxide, and then rinse them off under >> running water. >> It doesn't matter which you use first -- you can spray with the >> vinegar then the hydrogen peroxide, or with the hydrogen peroxide >> followed by the vinegar. You won't get any lingering taste of >> vinegar or hydrogen peroxide, and neither is toxic to you if a >> small amount remains on the produce. As a bonus: The paired >> sprays work exceptionally well in sanitizing counters and other >> food preparation surfaces -- including wood cutting boards. In >> tests run at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, >> pairing the two mists killed virtually all Salmonella, Shigella, >> or E. coli bacteria on heavily contaminated food and surfaces >> when used in this fashion, making this spray combination more >> effective at killing these potentially lethal bacteria than >> chlorine bleach or any commercially available kitchen cleaner. >> The best results came from using one mist right after the other >> -- it is 10 times more effective than using either spray by >> itself and more effective than mixing the vinegar and hydrogen >> peroxide in one sprayer. >> Reference note: Articles on Dr. Sumner's original research >> work appeared in the scientific news journal, "Science News," in >> the issues that were published on August 29, 1996, and on August >> 8, 1998. >> Author's note, updated February 2008: The question I get asked >> most by readers is, "Can I mix the hydrogen peroxide and vinegar >> into one sprayer?" The short answer is: EEK -- No! The longer >> answer is: never mix hydrogen peroxide and vinegar together in >> one container. The resulting chemical, peracetic acid, can harm >> you when mixed together this way if you accidentally create a >> strong concentration in this fashion. Peracetic acid also has >> entirely different characteristics and properties than either >> hydrogen peroxide or vinegar. Additionally, we don't know if >> peracetic acid kills the same group of pathogenic food-borne >> bacteria when used this way as a spray -- it very well may not. >----------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- >Internal Virus Database is out of date. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.15/1924 - Release Date: 1/29/2009 >5:57 PM > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
