Jonathan Perlstein talks about how to keep you homes safe in an eco-friendly way.

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Hello, it's JP from Procyon. This is the week of July 6th and the whole COVID virus issue has been on my mind and my heart as we've watched the numbers increase and people are concerned about how to keep their homes safe. And so it occurred to me that it was time to speak a little bit about how to keep your home safe and the greenest possible way.

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So this morning, I took some Procyon Multipurpose Cleaner and Degreaser. This product is made with the same ingredients that are used in food processing. Extremely safe. No volatile organic compounds. So I love cleaning with it. I mixed it up and the mixture for cleaning the hard surface that I used was four ounces to the gallon. And you can of course not. You can just mix two ounces to a half gallon if you want. Make a spray bottle. I sprayed our counters.

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We happen to have a granite counter, but it works great on Formica counters or other hard surfaces. So sprayed it down. And I used a Dobi pad to rub it in and then it used a clean towel to wipe it off. It's great at cutting grease and it's much more effective than many other cleaners you might use, including soap. 

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The one thing that we don't do in cleaning with Procyon is we don't have the same chemistry as a soap with respect to destroying the virus. So whether using soap or so Soap Free Procyon, what I like to do in our household is I do make a bleach solution. And you can choose just look right on a Clorox or other bleach bottle and you can choose whether you want to use a sanitizing or a disinfecting strength. So if you're sanitizing, it's a much lighter mix. It would be something like it could be two teaspoons to a gallon. But if you want hospital level disinfection, which is what I choose for our family, I use a full half cup in one gallon of water.

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And I do that at a smaller portion and put it in a 16 ounce spray bottle. So once I have finished cleaning the countertops with the Multi-purpose Cleaner and Degreaser, I lightly spray the countertop with the Clorox and once again use a Dobie pad or similar. And gently move it around to make sure that the countertop is completely coated, at which point I let it sit for 10 minutes at the end of ten minutes. I take a white towel with bleach fast and wet it down and thoroughly rinse the countertops and then let them air dry.

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We take that towel that has some bleach on it and I use it to clean all of the handles on our appliances, the poles on our cabinets and drawers. And then I'll do a fresh spray of the bleach solution and I clean all the doorknobs on the house. So that's just. I do that twice a week in our household. You can choose to do it at the interval that you feel appropriate for your risk assessment. If you're wanting to disinfect the soft surfaces in your house, I once again, we've post this on the Web site before.

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I want to recommend a wonderful product that's made by a company, Benefect, and it's called Decon 30. This is a botanical disinfectant. It's extremely safe. And it is EPA certified to kill ninety nine point nine percent of bacteria and also viruses. It's used in hospital settings. The amazing thing about this product is it's it uses something called thymol t h y m o l, it's a derivative of the herb thyme. This product, the one I select, has a very light lemon and thyme scent.

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You can you can blend that according to the directions and then just spray it lightly on both hard and fabric surfaces. So if you've had guests in the house, you may choose to lightly mist your upholstery with this. You can also use on the countertops, if you like, in place of bleach. So that's just a quick hit for you as we are all continuing to be wary of and fight this epidemic. All of us at Procyon wish you happiness and health, and we always welcome your questions. You're welcome to submit them either through our Web site at soapfreeprocyon.com or you're also welcome to call us at one 800-PROCYON. 

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Thanks. And I'll look forward to talking to you on the next podcast next week. Have a green and healthy week.

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