Kill More Germs by Cleaning… Less?

There’s clean, and then there’s CLEAN. Even if something looks clean, it might still be harboring microbes - many of them harmless, some of them definitely not. With most of the ways that we clean and disinfect - that is, kill germs - the clean doesn’t last as long as you might think.
Disinfectants work by attacking bacterial membranes and viral protein coats, breaking them down so that those germs fall apart and die. But the germaphobes were always right: As soon as a disinfectant dries, and a surface is re-exposed, like if someone touches or (worse) sneezes on it, it needs be disinfected all over again.
The next generation of cleaning products, however, add a trick: they lay down an incredibly thin polymer layer that keeps the germ-killing ingredients in place and effective for 24 hours at a time.
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[@lisadefries6718]

Simple solution is old fashioned but tried and tested. Use bleach for toilets, use dishwasher if you have one at hot temperature, wash clothes frequently, bath /shower every day using soap if not allergic and wash hands frequently using hand cream after to compensate for washing away natural skin barrier………. I just got a steam mop for floor and other surfaces. I didnt purchase it to sterilise my world but because I felt it probably was more eco friendly than chemical cleaners. …….and dont forget to clean phone ideally daily but at least once a week especially if you snack and use phone at same time. So basically just keep hands clean…..after using toilets and certainly before consuming or preparing food. My granny that lived to 98 use to wash her hands every time she came home…….the first thing she ever did when entering her home and she didnt wear outside shoes indoors…….. Obviously covid19 is airborne but I haven’t knowingly had yet and I work in public building ………..so maybe whatever I am doing works…….or maybe I am simply lucky 😊

[@TheComicChild]

Which non-pricey disinfectant products are reasonably sourced/made in same country and won't cause nature to turn into wasteland?

[@ginan9321]

So we're eating more cleaner with this?

[@Autepify]

0:19 chlorine bleach disinfectants can still be disinfecting after they dry because of the residue

[@shivjikhanath3586]

What about amount of microplastic (micro polomer) in environmental ?? I guess it's will have its effects ?? And study on that ?

[@Cineenvenordquist]

Yeah, that's the joke to it; how much L-sugar should be formulated in with the microplastic to make it nonetheless a few-generational job for fungi or a mulch pile, while suffering this odd FDA test of ...20 times abraded with the microbe-viral mulch (and the cloth thing) under 1 kg. normal force? The old studies should transfer nicely, but it still leaves hard problems of making things feel only so gross while letting them be active surfaces that aren't simply made of colloidal silver or other metal nanoparticles.

[@dudley5658]

Use fire. 🔥

[@FuzzyDunlots]

This is literally how we're all going to die. So you're telling me we now have the ability to create a competition free arena for a some new super bug? Isn't this what we should not be doing?

[@Cineenvenordquist]

You were watching something different, I think, if you came to that conclusion. It's not like the 0.01% of bacteria that survive are all one street-hardened knuckle-buster-wearing genus, it's that they survived (or not if it's you know, less than 99.99% for disinfecting.) Nonetheless you can counter that you like the photoactivable ingredients instead of 4-polypoly(mer) quaternary ammonium ones, then be picky about having earth-common elements in them instead of copper or copper nitride or even boron-containing stuff, and so on until you accidentally become satiable. Or maybe you can get picky on the side of microfiber cleaning cloth sanitization?

[@FuzzyDunlots]

@@Cineenvenordquist I'm picky on it all. You stupid settlers have no idea what you're doing in this nanosecond of our existence.

[@AleiahPrice]

I hate public bathrooms I’m a germaphobe

[@Shaggy.Vibes-]

Hello fellow lazy clean freaks

[@cikif]

Nice try hippies