how to make a good homemade Bleach Cleaner?

Question

Beside water and bleach, what else should go into the mix to make a good counter-top cleaner and disinfectant?

I like Clorox product called "CLEAN-UP" but I don't like paying close to $4 a bottle . I've tried making my own solution but the spray bottle's syphon tube winds up getting clogged with some sort of black percipitate.

So what should I add to buffer the reaction inside the solution? (regular liquid dishsoap doesn't help the problem either)

The Clorox label state:
Sodium Hypoclorite ...... 1.84 %
Other Ingredients............98.16 %

HUMMMM what are those "other ingredients?"

Yes, I know, about the 1:10 ratio and about the dangers of mixing chemicals, but I like to put my bleach/water solution in a spay bottle, but the syphon tube clogs up with a black percipitate.

Answer 1

You are making the product correctly - you just have the dispensing system wrong!

The "black precipitate" you are getting is RUST! The spring (inside your sprayer) is almost instantly turning to rust due to the presence of the hypochlorite - the fix is to get an "all plastic" sprayer.

Of course, that may be part of the reason that the chlorox alternative is so expensive - "all plastic" sprayers aren't cheap!

Answer 2

Clorox Foaming Bleach

Answer 3

I mix a product purchased at the 99 cent store called "awesome" into bleach and water. Keep in mind when you go beyond a 1:10 solution of bleach, you counter act the disinfecting quality. Less is more in this sense. Good Luck.

Answer 4

If you have a pool that you put "chlorine" in what you are doing is using the same chemical that is in bleach, HOCl, but at three times the concentration. You can make household bleach by simply diluting it by 3 to 1 with pure water.

Bleach is a pretty good cleaner and disinfectatnt all by itself.

The large percentage of inert ingrediants are mainly water.

Answer 5

All you need is bleach and water to clean food preparation areas. Mixing one teaspoon of bleach per gallon of water will do.

Never mix bleach with ammonia or other cleaner. Poisonous chlorine gas could result.

Center for Disease Control:
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/pdf/bleach.pdf

You can look at the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) for Clorox products on this site: http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/products/msds/index.html
(The majority of the other ingredients is water.)

Answer 6

You need to be very careful what you mix with bleach, you can create a gas that will take your breath away and make you pass out, or even worse cause an explosion, you shouldn't mix chemicals!

Answer 7

Here's a book you can use:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=br_ss_hs/104-5894849-6485547?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dblended&keywords=haleys+hints

There are a bunch of homemade cleaners in the book. Which one to use seems to depend on what it is you are trying to clean.

I've used a few and they work pretty well.