"Bob Mannix" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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The Medway Handyman wrote:
You are buying chemicals FFS! What else would you call acetic acid,
sodium bicarbonate & sodium chloride? Why are they 'good' and other
chemicals 'bad'?

Well, we know these are at least fairly safe for humans since they've
been
used in cooking for many a year.

Commercial products will add all sorts of things - colours, perfumes etc
etc which aren't necessary to the product's effectiveness but will add to
the price. And it's quite possible some of these could irritate someone
prone to asthma or allergies etc.

The whole domestic cleaner market is based on advertising hype and only a
tiny amount of science. I'm amazed you haven't found this in practice.

Once you move to commercial cleaners things may be different.

For the *majority* of domestic issues, Sam is right that elbow grease and
something acid or alkali will do the job - the only exceptions might be
very greasy stuff that needs a detergent or soap (crockery and clothes and
hair). In these situations most stuff is hype as DP says and all the
bottles contain either something acidic (kitchen dirt) or something alkali
(bathroom dirt)

or even the other way round! Ooops.


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Bob Mannix
(anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not)