Last Updated on April 29, 2020
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Are you sure you’re using disinfectants the right way?
To stay safe and healthy, many of us turn to disinfectants to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases, including cold and flu.
However, it’s essential to keep in mind that using even the best disinfectant the wrong way can make this preventive product very ineffective, thus leading to an inevitable health disaster that you won’t understand where it came from.
That’s why you should pay extreme attention to how you can apply a disinfectant properly for high-level disinfection that’ll protect your health and keep diseases at bay.
To avoid making disinfectant mistakes and putting your health at risk, here are ten expert tips on how to use and apply disinfectants correctly.
10. Use a cleaning cloth
Using a microfiber cleaning cloth or mop to apply household disinfectants is said to be more efficient than using natural-based fibers, according to experts.
This is because the microfiber cleaning cloths are resistant to a chemical phenomenon called quat binding, which happens when quaternary ammonium chloride gets absorbed into fabrics.
But how does this happen? It’s simple! Natural fabrics, like cotton, are negatively charged while quats are positively charged ions, and since positive attracts negative, that’s how it happens.
It’s best to always use microfiber instead of cotton to prevent the disinfectant from being absorbed into the fabric and get the high-level disinfection results that you want.
9. Always use a clean disinfectant solution
When cleaning your floors, you dip your mop into the bucket again and again to reach the perfect level of cleanliness. But once you re-dip the mop into the disinfectant solution in your bucket, the solution gets contaminated.
So if you didn’t change it as often as necessary, you might end up re-spreading dirt and bacteria all over your house.
It’s recommended to renew mop water every two rooms. But if you’re using a microfiber mop, you should change the mop-head after cleaning just one room, while making sure not to put it back into the disinfectant solution, or else you’ll promote cross-contamination.
