Clorox Ultimate Care

[gadgetgary]

Does anyone know about this product or have any experience?
I picked it up today at my local grocery store(The Big Y which is across the street from KMart....I tell people I shop at the Big KY...ducks and runs).

Anyways, feedback welcome.

 

[maytagbear]

Toggle-

Ah, but I'm not cheap.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[zipdang]

Is bleach earth friendly?

I work with a guy who for years worked in a chlorine manufacturing facililty. He claims that LCB, like Clorox or the various store brands, is made safely and is safe for the environment. All of the environmental literture, however, seems strongly against both the production and the use of LCB. So...what's deal?

 

[toggleswitch]

This I need to hear about

 

[appnut]

Tell us how the nwe product sizes up with the rest of the beasts.

 

[maytagbear]

I'm curious about it as well.

Is this a replacement for Clorox II, which to me, has never been more than somewhat effective?

If I remember, Steve-SactoTeddy mentioned this a few weeks ago.

I don't use regular Clorox a great deal in laundry, though I do use it as a household cleaner/disinfectant.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[toggleswitch]

Household cleaner.

Just remember Clorox or other brands of bleach do not degrease or hold soil in suspension. Its ability to actually clean is limited IMHO.

It is great for disinfecting and deodorizing and de-molding and de-mildewing.

Just a thought.

 

[gansky1]

And a correct thought it is...

Toggle is correct, bleach has little "cleaning" ability but is a great disinfectant, mold/mildew remover and of course, it's laundry uses for whitening and brightening.

The ultimate care sounds like an Oxygen bleach, probably with some added surfacants and enzymes to make rinsing even more difficult in water-stingy machines.

 

[maytagbear]

I mostly

use it to clean the commode. **Fast, easy.

(**I wouldn't know to whom that might refer.)

I also have used it to get balsamic vinegar stains off floor tile.

L/Mb

 

[rayjay]

Bleach Cleaning Ability

I still think Clorox Chlorine bleach does clean. IMHO

I have washed dirty white dish towels in just hot water and detergent, and they still had stains left behind.

I wash them in detergent and bleach, and they came out spotless.

Does this make sense? Bleach does get out the stains. So... How can bleach not be considered to have cleaning abilities?

Maybe it is just me, (an avid bleach user who likes his whites white), but if someone can explain, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Ray

 

[tomturbomatic]

Bleach is a bleaching agent which can improve the stain removing of good laundry detergent, but as I read somewhere, bleaching is no substitute for proper laundering methods. While caustic, it is not a surfactant and is not a cleaner by itself. Greasy discoloration will not be removed with bleach. Either STPP with the detergent or that gel (Shout or Spray & Wash?) applied as a pre treater is best for grease. My favorite discovery about bleach is that when mixed half and half with water and applied to the tile and grout above the tub or in the shower and allowed to dry will not only result in snow white grout, but after the second or third time that this is done, no more dark stuff grows in the grout. Of course, some people do not like the swimming pool smell of the chlorine, but it brings happy memories to me and smells really clean so I like it.

 

[rayjay]

Bleach

Hi Tome,

I agree with you in that bleach needs to be used with a good detergent. However, it has always been stated that you should let the clothes wash first in the detergent for at least 5 minutes, letting the detergent do the work first, then add the bleach. My LG's bleach dispenser does this. It is said that if you add bleach at the beginning of the wash with the detergent, the bleach actually slows down the detergents cleaning ability. I also happen to like to tell tale signs of bleach. It is just such a clean smell. I like to clean my bathrooms with Clorox Cleanup.

I just think that some people are afraid to use bleach. There tidy whities must not be that white. (LOL). If used properly it does work.

Thanks for your advice and opinions.

Much appreciated.

Ray

 

[timborow]

Cleaning with bleach

I use Clorox Clean-up for all of my cleaning. It is bleach with a cleaner mixed in. It works really well, and leaves a very nice, clean scent.
Tim

 

[tomturbomatic]

Except for enzyme detergents, bleach would not slow down the cleaning. It's the optical brighteners in many detergents that would be canceled out by the bleach if it was added before they had a chance to work. The Maytag metered bleach injection introduced in 58 or 59(?) did not delay the addition of bleach to the wash water. Once the fill was complete and agitation started, the pump pulled the solution of bleach and water out of the reservoir and shot it into the outer tub. This was far better than the cheaper methods of dispensing bleach where it basically goes right into the bottom of the outer tub so that clothes at the bottom of the tub are exposed to a strong bleach solution when the washer starts filling. I think a more even way of adding bleach was pouring it slowly into the filter pan while the GE washer was agitating. Almost instantly the whole basement would have that wonderful fragrance of serious washing as the chlorine rose in the steam from the 160 degree water. The new front loaders that siphon bleach into the fill stream get dilution OK, but if I bleach in the Duet, I don't want it going into the rinse. I dilute the Clorox & add it to the hot wash water after 5 minutes.

 

[toggleswitch]

I also have used it to get balsamic vinegar stains off floor

Aren't you supposed to use WHITE vinegar for those hard-to-reach personal places?

Ducks and runs.

 

[toggleswitch]

Bleach as a cleaner.

When I went to visit in Puerto Rico, it appears to be very fashionable there to use bleach BY ITSELF as a floor cleaner [Terrazzo floors]. (Cheap, available and kills the mold and mildew).

Does great with mold and mildew but the greases and oils do not get lifted. They stay on the surfaces (floors) because the water does not have a surfactants needed to hold the greases/fats in suspension. STICKY MESS.

What soap and detergent does, is act as a temporary emulsifier. [They way an egg holds together oil and vinegar to make mayonnaise]. Back to soaps: one end of the molecoule is hydro-philic (likes water) the other end is lipo-philic (likes fat/grease). Detergent therefore allows water to hold fat/grese/dirt in suspension (emulsified, if you will) and take it away.

Ray: Would you use bleach ALONE inyoru wash? Probably not, because the DIRT would be bleached white, but would not be removed from the clothes. Bleach is an OPTICAL brightenr. It takes invisible ultra-violet light and lowers its vibration to make it visible light.

In Spanish, bleach is called *BLANCEADOR* to make things BLANCO (blank) or WHITE. It is a whitener and disinfectant. Period. Full-stop.

 

[toggleswitch]

Lawrence you forgot to say "CHEAP" LOL

 

[peterh770]

LCB breaks down rather quickly after being diluted in wash water. I read somewhere that the half life of dispensed LCB is 6 minutes. LCB is sodium hypochlorite, so when broken down is similar to salt water.

 

[gadgetgary]

Results:

I used the Clorox Ultimate Care bleach on this load this morning....

Can we say 'PANK' class??????????

 

[toggleswitch]

I read somewhere that the half life of dispensed LCB is 6 mi

Makes sense that is is generally dispensed in the last 5 to 10 minutes of wash in American machines and in the first (short) rinse in Euro style front-loaders.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Saw this at Wally World today and gave it a sniff. It's definitely chlorine bleach. Read the label and it looks like they've added buffers so it doesn't eat through your clothes right away.

Methinks I may give it a try.

veg

 

[neptunebob]

Went swimming today, so now I have a question - if chlorine bleach breaks down in six minutes, how are swimming pools possible? Is HTH the same as chlorine bleath? I assumed it kind of was, but like the powdered clorine bleach.

 

[frigilux]

I love the marketing angle: PREMIUM bleach. Like McDonald's new extra-special coffee. (Sorry, I have the unfortunate luck to live 2 blocks from McD's, so I tend to read the window posters while waiting at the red light.)

 

[maytagbear]

no expert here,

but part of the pool equation is higher concentration of chlorine, and (supposedly) careful monitoring of the overall chemistry of a pool. I am sure there are others here who can provide greater detail.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[westie2]

Chlorine for Pools is stabilized

Chlorine rapidly depletes when exposed to the sun's rays. For this reason, many manufacturers produce stabilized chlorine which contains a stabilizer (cyanuric acid) that shields the chlorine from the sun so it depletes less rapidly. Have used HTH for years in our pool. We are thinking of going to the chlorine generator that uses salt to make the chlorine and also softens the water. Outdoor pools don't have as heavy of the chlorine smell with the satblizer. Indoor pools use straight chlorine with no stabilizer as no sun so it dissiaptes into the air faster.

 

[rayjay]

Bleach Alone?

Stefve, As you said, I would not use bleach alone. I always use on most whites that can be bleached, as socks, dish towels, underwear, etc.

Dish towels and dish rags especially need to be bleach to kill the germs and whiten.

All I know is that when I hang my whites on the clothes line, they dazzle. We had a neighbor many years ago who did not use bleach, (talk about dingy whites??) oh my.

 

[rinso]

I still use Chlorine bleach for washing dishtowels, white cleaning rags, tighty whites, and white napkins. I always thought that bleaches don't really remove stains, they just whiten them so they don't show.

I think it is interesting that may new FL machines, don't even dispense the bleach until the first rinse. I wonder if bleach in cold water works as well as in hot or warm.

 

[toggleswitch]

All I know is that when I hang my whites on the clothes line

The sun itself helps bleach clothing, too.

 

[toggleswitch]

His whites are WHTER than white

oh Ray. No one makes a better 1950's housewife than you.

How long does it take you to iron each of your wife's pleated skirts? and her unmentionables?
And how long to get those pleats in the sheer curtains and draperies ironed "just so"?

(Ducks and runs)
Just lovingly f---ing with ya Ray.
Are you giggling yet? I can see you covering you mouth with your hand. TE HE HE HE
Who loves ya baby?

 

[perc-o-prince]

Ya must be doing something right, Ray.

Nearly thirty years of marriage is the true Litmus test
Now I bet'cha laughing

R