Clorox® Disinfecting Bleach, the bleach you’ve known and trusted for generations with the power to clean, whiten, disinfect, and kill bacteria and viruses. Clorox® Disinfecting Bleach makes stain removal easier.

What does bleach actually do?

Bleaches work by reacting with many colored organic compounds, such as natural pigments, and turning them into colorless ones. While most bleaches are oxidizing agents (chemicals that can remove electrons from other molecules), some are reducing agents (that donate electrons).

What are the effects of Clorox bleach?

Drinking a bleach solution can cause vomiting, nausea, throat, and stomach irritation. The vomit is likely to have a chlorine smell to it. Contact with chlorine gas can severely burn and irritate the eyes, skin, nose, and throat, possibly causing permanent damage.

Is it safe to use Clorox bleach?

When used properly (it should always be diluted with water before use), chlorine bleach is safe for disinfecting surfaces. It kills harmful germs and bacteria and sanitizes clothes in the laundry.

Why should you not clean with bleach?

Bleach can irritate the skin and eyes. Breathing in bleach over a long period of time can increase your risk of cancer. A dangerous gas can be formed when bleach is combined with certain chemicals (like ammonia). Bleach causes the buildup of chloroform in the air.

Why do criminals use bleach?

Hypochlorite is a common component in household bleaches and cleaners, which are often used to remove blood from crime scenes. Cleaning agents not only have the potential to contaminate the biological material but may also degrade DNA present thus making the production of a conclusive and reliable profile difficult.

What should you not use bleach on?

5 Things You Should Never Clean or Do with Bleach

• Don’t use it on wooden surfaces.
• Don’t use it to clean most metals.
• Don’t use it on granite countertops.
• Don’t use it to clean or sanitize food.
• Never mix it with other chemicals.

How quickly does bleach poisoning set in?

For the majority of cases, which involve household bleach that has been diluted in water, symptoms begin within minutes. These include heavy drooling (especially in cats) and redness and irritation on the skin and in and around the mouth.

Why is bleach so toxic to humans?

Bleach is a corrosive, especially to metal surfaces. Bleach itself is readily diluted with water and can be neutralized on surfaces, including skin, with sodium thiosulfate (if necessary). Direct reaction: Bleach reacts with biological tissues, causing irritation and cell death by protein denaturation.

What happens if bleach gets into your bloodstream?

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Is bleach really necessary?

Is bleach ever necessary then? According to the CDC, sodium hypochlorite is the only thing that can kill certain bacteria. If you have an incredible outbreak of something, bleach many be the only thing to kill it. In fact, after a natural disaster, they recommend using bleach to disinfect everything possible.

Does bleach actually clean?

If you choose to disinfect surfaces and household disinfectants are not available, you can make a bleach solution to use on many surfaces in your home. This solution will be effective at killing germs when properly diluted.

Why is bleach so damaging?

Not only does bleaching raise the outer cuticle, it also damages the bonds inside the hair too (hair is made up of three types of bonds: hydrogen, disulfide and salt bonds) causing them to weaken and break, and when the internal structure of the hair is compromised, strands are more likely to split and snap.

What was the original use for bleach?

At first, it was used to bleach cotton, but soon became a popular compound for bleaching other clothing materials since it was quickly found that the sodium hypochlorite could remove stains from clothes at room temperature.

Is bleach poisonous to humans?

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Household bleach (sodium hydroxide) is not technically speaking considered corrosive or toxic, even if ingested. However, bleach exposure can cause irritation in the eyes, mouth, lungs and on skin. Individuals with asthma or other breathing problems are particularly susceptible.

Is Clorox and bleach the same thing?

Is there a difference between Clorox, and bleach, and if so what are these differences? Clorox is just a brand name of sodium hypochlorite bleach. There are other brand names of sodium hypochlorite bleach. No other difference.