Disinfectant for surfaces

Mellika

:eek: If I did that I'd scratch and ruin the surface...

And I agree we worry too much about desinfecting. We'll be so mollycoddled one day we'll get ill from breathing a little dust... :rolleyes:

Mellika

Hollysan wrote: »

I put water in a spray bottle and a few drops of tea tree oil

Sorry to be so slow but how much oil to water? A few drops could be 3 or 20 ...

geri1965_2

Use Zoflora, it's really cheap and you dilute it, so a small bottle will last for ages.

http://www.zoflora.co.uk/home/

geordie_joe

debs2327 wrote: »

IS THERE ANY NEED TO BE SARCASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Y COMMENT IF ITS NOT HELPFULL :mad: IDIOT

I wasn't being sarcastic, it was a genuine question. How do you know that disinfectant is killing more germs than plain old stardrops would?

They come on the TV and tell us we have millions of germs on our chopping boards, and that we have to buy their product to kill them, but we only have their word that their product is better than another.

brila

I use dettol for the potty and "accidents" and also when people are sick. I find that the old fashioned type (looks yellow in the bottle and you need to dilute it) is cheap (£1.75 in our corner shop, doubtless cheaper elsewhere) and lasts forever if you dilute it (a capful to 1.5 pints) in a spray bottle. As an added bonus it has bitrex in it which deters small people from licking or chewing things they shouldn't... The fancy clear dettol that comes already in a spray bottle is tasteless which I'm not convinced is a good idea around young children.

I agree you can probably be too clean - but I think there are definately times and places when hyper-cleanliness is a good move.

poorandindenial

I am probably the worst person to answer this as my kitchen hygiene is shocking (I never, ever get ill though)

I personally just use stardrops for cleaning my surfaces (or I do since I saw the recommendations on here - cheers old stylers). One suggestion I did see from a poster once was that they use diluted sterilising solution in a spray. TBH I often think that technique is more important than product for cleaning things properly.

Sweetpeanut

i mix stardrops & water in a spray bottle, works for me;)

TheDoolallyDilly

I never really think of sterilising my worktops - they get wiped down with hot soapy water, and I used chopping boards for everything, which go in the dishwasher. If raw chicken or something ended up on the worktops, I might use a little spray of Dettox, but I don't use it all over the worktops all the time. Now I am wondering if I should!!? We don't get ill though.

For sickness type cleaning up I would use Tescos own disinfectant, diluted in water - it doesn't smell as lovely as the traditional Dettol, but presumably it works - although like geordie joe says, I don't actually know it does!