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Since it has become difficult to buy disinfectant spray and disinfectant wipes in some countries many people are looking online for homemade disinfectant solutions. The problem is many websites and blogs are touting a whole range of homemade, natural, alternative and holistic disinfectant recipes that are simply ineffective. This is bad enough during normal times but during this coronavirus pandemic, it is dangerous.<\/p>\n
To be clear – as far as coronavirus is concerned, I would not be relying upon any disinfectant recipes that rely on essential oils (including tea tree), vinegar, lemon juice, vodka, bicarbonate of soda or witch hazel as the main germ\/virus killing agent. Stick with bleach, hydrogen peroxide or alcohol, at the correct mixing ratios recommended for killing germs and viruses.<\/p>\n
From my own research on the CDC website (see here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>), I have found the following products and ratios to be effective for killing germs and viruses, including coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out my two previous posts: How To Make A Disinfectant Spray From Bleach<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0How To Make Your Own Hand Emergency Sanitizer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n You will need<\/strong><\/p>\n Method<\/strong><\/p>\n When bleach is diluted with water it starts to break down after 48 hours or so. With this in mind, I recommend making a small batch of disinfectant wipes every few days.<\/p>\n Note —<\/strong> you could also adapt this to use 3% hydrogen peroxide instead of bleach. Hydrogen peroxide breaks down when exposed to light so you will need to store your wipes in a dark-coloured or opaque airtight container.<\/em><\/p>\n It’s recommended that you wear kitchen gloves when using these wipes as they are bleach-based. At the very least make sure you rinse your hands after using them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since it has become difficult to buy disinfectant spray and disinfectant wipes in some countries many people are looking online for homemade disinfectant solutions. The problem is many websites and blogs are touting a whole range of homemade, natural, alternative and holistic disinfectant recipes that are simply ineffective. This is bad enough during normal times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":19600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19601,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions\/19601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgeweighsnothing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Simple Homemade Disposable Disinfectant Wipes<\/h2>\n
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