Clorox Anywhere Hard Surface Daily Sanitizing Spray: The Review and the Real Deal

The new Clorox Anywhere Hard Surface daily sanitizing spray is making quite an impression. What a great concept, considering the concerns about food contamination, and salmonella outbreaks!

Parents and preschool teachers are buying the convenient bottles in efforts to reduce germs at home and at work.

The company recommends the product for use on counter tops, high chair trays, pet food bowls, baby toys, toothbrush holders, and playpens along with many other surfaces too numerous to list. The Clorox.com website explains the proper usage: Spray on surface, let stand two minutes, and wiping dry is optional! The company claims the product is safe to use around kids, pets and food while being powerful enough to kill 99.9% of common household bacteria, including E. coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus (Staph) and Streptococcus (Strep).

Does the product work? Yes, it does. The product provides a beneficial cleaning tool which should be in every kitchen.

The product works, but the reality is that everyone can make their own sanitizing "bleach water" for pennies per spray bottle! Literally! However, the Clorox product was recently stocked at Toys R Us for $3.79 per bottle. The web site admits that the "gentle formula" contains 0.0095% bleach and water.

Restaurant managers who attend ServeSafe classes are taught to make sanitizing solution and given the same directions for proper application. Restaurant managers who complete the course are certified by the ServeSafe program. This information can be verified by calling a local health inspector.

To make sanitizing "bleach water," you will need bleach, a spray bottle and a gallon of water. The idea is to mix a solution of bleach water that equals 100 ppm (parts per million) of bleach. To achieve this balance, mix one gallon of water with a half a capful of bleach. This strength of bleach water will kill germs and sanitize the surface without leaving a harmful residue behind.

While Clorox is a company in business to make a profit, I think the company would be better served to create a public service announcement educating consumers about how their product can aid in the protection of their families, rather than create a brand new product with a ridiculous mark-up, and then marketing that product as a result of recent consumer scares involving salmonella and cross contamination.

This is a great product, but the methods in which Clorox is marketing this product is bad ethical business tactics!

For additional information on "bleach water" or other ways to reduce risks, see this article.