Anti Bacterial spray that is eco friendly do they exist?

500yearvision

kittiwoz wrote: »

I had a look to try and find this on the internet and it seems I wrong about the research being done by the University of Manchester. It was done by scientists at the University of Ulster in their Food Microbiology Research Group (FMRG) and was revealed at a medical research conference in Manchester and published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Here is the press release. I found a page showing some of the recent funding successes of the FMRG which says it was awarded a grant of £546,286 by the Research and Development Office of the Department of Health, Social Services & Public Safety (Northern Ireland) for a 4 year project in collaboration with Dr John Moore and colleagues at the Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratory at Belfast City Hospital to study "The development, dissemination and significance of antibiotic resistance within the human food chain".

Hope that clears that up.

I'd love to find funding to do the research to investigate the link between sources of funding and any positive/negative outcome of research findings.

I was sceptical - it's tea tree oil we can be warned off, rather than using environmentally damaging substances such as bleach & all those disposable one use cloths that just end up in landfill.

I suppose though, the flip side of the University of Ulster findings is that tea tree oil is safe and effective in killing bacteria if diluted to 5%.

The Ulster research was about skin products, rather than cleaning products. This would make a huge difference in the sorts of bacteria that can survive (skin: nice & moist & warm, kitchen sink:not).

Perhaps the bottom line for this forum is that lavender oil is cheaper than tea tree oil, and produced locally, so I recommend you use lavender in your home made cleaning products.

gibby

to savea fortune Citricidal is totally anti bacterial & antifungal & antibiotic and not poisionus to the body or the environment
a £6 bottle will last for ages - much cheaper

basically its a little bottle of grapfruit seed extract
put a drop on your cloth and its more effective and less nasty to all of us

you can also put a small amount in your water to quickly kill off colds
soak you feet in it to kill of athletes foot
put it in you shampoo to kill off dandruff and it also keeps those head lice away

it has many uses & 100% non toxic
further in can be found
http://www.wddty.co.uk/cms/content.asp?pageid=home
and search for it

G

smileysaver

I think Tesco do their own environmentally friendly antibacterial cleaner.