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turbo

Now go clean your mirror, windows, spaghetti-stained stove-top and your mildewed bathroom vanity with that same solution. The mixture of water and isopropyl alcohol gives you a range of solubility and wettability that you cannot get from either alone. It's cheap and effective. Like I mentioned earlier, you can put a few drops of Oil of Wintergreen or Oil of Peppermint into one of your spayers to leave a nice minty smell when you use this for general cleaning.

Take back our air, people! We should not be breathing the toxic soup of chemicals listed as "fragrances" in detergents, fabric softeners, room deodorizers, masking fragrances like Febreze, and used in "unscented" Oil of Olay Moisturizing lotion. None of us should have to breathe this crap, least of all the little children whose immune systems, respiratory systems, and neurological systems are still developing. Why do you think childhood asthma and respiratory illnesses are spiking? Duh! Note: If the label on a cosmetic, cleaning product, or laundry product does not explicitly say "fragrance free" IT ISN'T, and you are exposing yourselves and your loved ones to unregulated chemicals every time you use them. In the US, manufacturers are allowed to conceal the ingredients of anything they consider "fragrances" under an old French perfume law, depite the fact that anybody with a gas chromatograph or a mass sprectroscope can dissect their perfume in no time flat. Here's just one link. You can find others easily. If you are sending your kids to a school that is not fragrance-free, you mey be setting them up for a lifetime of health problems.


http://www.organichealthandbeauty.co...y_ep_46-1.html

chroot

I take it you work for Big Isopropyl, don't you turbo-1?

- Warren

turbo

No, but Ethanol and Isopropyl are pretty safe for skin contact, and combined with water, the range of solubilities and wetabilities provide a nice range of cleaning properties with little else required. Cleaners do not have to be constructed of X solvent and Y surfactant and z abrasive. Sometimes less is more.

chroot

I think you should rebrand some plain isopropyl "Miracle Cleaning Alcohol," mark the price up 1000%, then go on late-night TV, using the exact same sales pitch you just used. You'd be a millionaire in a matter of months.

- Warren

turbo

The Shaklee initiative! Regardless, the mixture works really well.

chroot

Fools and money are soon to part, yes?

- Warren

turbo

Have you tried a solution of isopropil alcohol and water as a cleaning agent? If not, I suggest that you do before denigrating someone with years of practical experience.

Math Is Hard

I think chroot is just commenting that there are many people who wouldn't make the cognitive leap that the solution is just ordinary rubbing alcohol and water that they could mix up themselves. Heck, if it came in a pretty enough bottle I might order it!

And yeah, I went and tried it on my mirror right after I cleaned the laptop and it did a fabulous job. No streaks!

chroot

I wasn't denigrating you, turbo-1, I was laughing at the general public who would probably buy your Miracle Cleaning Alcohol like hotcakes.

- Warren

turbo

I'm sorry, Warren. Sometimes, it's tough to read peoples' intentions through these posts, and I should have known that you wouldn't poke fun at people who are trying to be helpful. My wife bought Shaklee cleaners for a while because they were fragrance-free and didn't leave residues, etc. Then when I started working as an optician, I found out what the opticians all know - al solution of isopropyl alcohol and water works really well, cleaning a wide range of junk off lenses without damaging them or the coatings on them. Some coatings can be stripped and re-applied in the typical optician's lab, but not the really expensive anti-reflective coatings.

Again, my apologies for misreading your intent.

larkspur

The alcohol solution works great as car windshield washer fluid too.