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Reliance On Bleach Mistake
by David Andrew Smith
Bleach products must be the most commonly found cleaning
products in households, and offices complexes are not far
behind. Go into most household toilets and you will probably
find a bleach product. Go into office toilets which are only
cleaned by contract cleaners once, twice or three times a week
and you will probably find a container of bleach of some
description nestling either on the window sill or by the toilet
bowl, especially in the ‘ladies’ toilets. Males do not seem to
have the same reliance on bleach, or they simply do not think
about clean toilets!
What is this fascination that we seem to have with bleach not
as a whitener but as a cleaner? Is it effective as a
disinfectant? Yes, because the alkaline nature of the bleach
plus the small amounts of chloride ions produced are both
effective at killing bacteria and viruses. Is it effective as a
whitener? Yes, because on contact with water it produces free
oxygen radicals that will oxidise some coloured pigments. Hence
the bleaching effect. Oxygen radicals are also effective
disinfectants so aid in destroying harmful organisms.
However what are the cleaning properties of bleach? They would
appear to be minimal. Does bleach remove dirt? Does bleach
remove staining in toilet bowls? The answer to all these would
seem to be no it does not. What the bleach is in fact doing is
rendering the stain or the dirt transparent. It is bleaching
it. It is still there but not visible!
So householders quite happily soak there toilet bowls with
bleach. This gets them clean with the minimum of effort and has
the added bonus that they smell ‘clean’. The porcelain will
certainly look clean and shiny but in reality it is not you
just cannot see it any more as it has been bleached!
I believe we rely so much on bleach because of past usage by
our parents and grand parents and it gives the effect of
looking clean and most importantly it smells clean.
Psychologically we see it clean, we smell it clean and all the
nasty ‘germs’ have been killed so it must be clean. In reality
it is a trick, the dirt or the stain is still there we just
cannot see it, and whatever odours were around are being masked
by the smell of chlorine, the clean smell. Like mould that has
been treated with bleach they will return!
Further articles on our fascination with bleach will be
appearing shortly.
David Andrew Smith has been working for many
years in the cleaning industry.
Please Visit http://www.wesparkle.co.uk for more information
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