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I use clorox for a lot of cleaning. How effective will the new product be?
Ok, so Clorox won’t be making the bleach out of chlorine and sodium hydroxide... but it will be buying a 15% concentration bleach and will be diluting it to 6%.
Who is making the 15% bleach? Aren’t they making it with chlorine and sodium hydroxide?
It’s not that Clorox is changing the “recipe”, it’s that they aren’t cooking it in their own kitchen. Whose kitchen is it being cooked in? Mexico? China?
A lot of swimming pool owners now use liquid sodium hypochlorite instead of chlorine gas already as it is so much easier and safer to handle, but the chlorine is still "in there".
I have a feeling it won’t be long before the strongest cleaning ingredient we’ll be able to buy is deionized water.
Sounds good to me. The Germans used chlorine on my granddad in WWI, and I’ve heard gruesome stories of deaths during the manufacture of it, and seen the newscasts and news reports of what happens when a chlorine tanker derails. The gas is bad stuff. Amazing that the air we breath element Oxygen is Chlorine’s chemical twin.
The old good twin, bad twin mythos goes back to the creation of the very elements.
We were definitely germ free, but if dead, who cares??? ;-) I used to tease her that she should have bought stock in Clorox and Scotch Tape. Her gifts were impregnable. There were a lot of frustrated cousins at Christmas and Birthdays in our house — not to mention the neighborhood.
The article doesn’t match the title.
Clorox will still be selling products with chlorine.
They’re just not going to make it domestically.
It sounds to me like they’re going to downsize and import the product...but they’ve issued a press release to make it sound like they’re being “green”. Covering their butts with a green excuse.
The water purification link wants to put a cookie on my computer. No thanks.
How much harm has been done during shipping of chlorine in comparison with, say, getting out of bed in the morning? Sounds like another law that increases the cost of doing something (making Chlorox in this case) in the name of the environment or safety. It wouldn’t be surprising if Chlorox eventually takes the whole operation to another country.
So, all the Clorox plant will now be doing is diluting someone else’s “Clorox.” So why should I buy Clorox? How could they possibly make a superior product than Brand X? And why is it safer to put all those trucks on the highway with the concentrated bleach, than to package the bleach where it is created? This sounds like Clorox no longer finds the plant operable, and is trying to put an environmental spin on what is essentially going out of the manufacturing business.
The only reason I buy Clorox is for the chlorine. If they stop using it, I’ll stop buying it.
so....we will just start importing all of our chlorine bleach so the chlorine plants can all sit in Indonesia or Pakistan.
Great thinking there, Feds!!
Just a thought that hasn’t been covered yet. Clorox is a business. They are going to do whatever it takes to make a profit and whatever they can to make a bigger profit. Is this a bunch of BS about safety and security? I’ll bet they will be increasing profits with their new formula. Otherwise they would have continued the status quo. Again it’s just my theory based on how business works, I’ve got nothing to back it up.
It looks like this more about the security aspect of transporting massive amounts of chlorine than environmental issues.
Chlorine is nasty. All of the halogens in pure form are highly reactive, especially with organic compounds, and very dangerous. I don’t mind less of the pure form being moved around the country in bulk.
I’m having trouble understanding this article. I read that Chlorox is going to start buying chlorine instead of shipping it? Is that what it says?
The patent on Oxi-Clean (High Strength Bleach) must have run out so that the process may be used by anyone. Does it kill germs like Chlorine bleach? I doubt it.
I love the smell of Chlorx clean.
I also find that 2-3 tbls in a spray filled with water is a great cleaner for everything....
another tip....to remove soap scum...use a damp dryer sheet
I also find that 2-3 tbls in a spray filled with water is a great cleaner for everything....
another tip....to remove soap scum...use a damp dryer sheet
I'm not an industrial chemist but it sounds to me like all Chlorox is doing is making one or more of their suppliers assume the risk of using and transporting chlorine gas.
Pretty cagey financial decision, if they can pull it off.
It also keeps the Chlorox brand name out of the news in the event of something bad happening.