5 Blends of Cleaning Products You Should Never Do At Home
We know that you always want to do your best to take care of work, children and the house, but that is not easy. Therefore, we love those tips that make our lives easier, especially the cleaning tricks.
However, for lack of information, we can end up putting ourselves in danger. This is the case with the blending of cleaning products: in an attempt to make your job easier, you may end up generating substances hazardous to your health.
As much as two products can work wonderfully alone, this does not mean that mixing the two will potentiate their effects. On the contrary: you can end up canceling the cleaning properties of the products, damaging your health and running the risk of causing an explosion.
To avoid these problems, know and note these 5 product mixes that you should never clean.
1. Sanitary water + Disinfectant
These two products are widely used and offer good results when they are used alone in cleaning the house, but their mixture is dangerous.
Sanitary water has the active ingredient sodium hypochlorite, which has germicidal properties and can be used as laundry bleach. Disinfectants, in turn, are rich in ammonia.
Thus, when these two products are mixed, the formation of chloramines occurs, substances that, if inhaled, can cause health problems ranging from allergies to intoxications and burns.
2. Sanitary water + Detergent
Like disinfectants, detergents can also contain amines. Thus, mixing this product with bleach leads to the formation of chloroamines, which cause damage to the airways.
It is worth noting that this mixing may occur involuntarily when cleaning the sink immediately after washing the dishes without rinsing the traces of detergent left in the tub. Therefore, always remove all detergent from the sink before applying bleach.
3. Sanitary water + Vinegar
The vinegar looks like an innocent seasoning that leaves the salads very delicious, besides being a powerful cleaning agent. These properties are true, but vinegar can also pose a hazard if it is mixed with bleach.
When combined, these two products form the chlorine gas (Cl2), a yellow-green vapor that, even in small amounts, can cause coughing attacks by irritating the airways, breathing problems and burning eyes.
4. Vinegar + hydrogen peroxide
The mixture of vinegar with hydrogen peroxide leads to the formation of peracetic acid, which in high concentration can cause irritations to the skin, eyes and respiratory system.
Peracetic acid can be found in chemical stores, but the packaging lid needs to be equipped with a special valve that allows oxygen to escape out of the package.
This means that if you make the vinegar blend with hydrogen peroxide at home and store it in a standard, airtight container, the release of oxygen may increase the internal pressure and eventually break the bottle.
5. Baking Soda + Vinegar
If you attended a science class at school, you should remember that volcano erupts when baking soda and vinegar come together. Under these conditions, where the foam and the formed carbon dioxide have to escape, the mixing of these two products is not dangerous, but may even cause an explosion if it is made in an enclosed container.
In addition, since baking soda is a basic substance and vinegar is an acidic substance, mixing the two results in water and a salt called sodium acetate, meaning you lose the cleaning properties that these products had before.
For your safety, never mix cleaning products, not even products of the same species, but of different brands. It is worth remembering that you should keep all these products out of the reach of children and animals and that the packaging should never be reused.
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