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How to select a suitable Disinfectant Cleaner?

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With a multitude of Surface Disinfectant Cleaner options available in the market, it is a challenging task just to select the right product for one’s needs.   Do you buy a Disinfectant Cleaner or a plain Disinfectant?   Should you buy a Disinfectant Concentrate or a Ready to Use (RTU) pre-diluted variant? What is better - a Trigger Spray or a pre-wetted Disinfectant Wipe? What is better value for money - Aerosol Spray or No Gas Trigger Spray? Each decision can influence your user experience to a great degree. So, how do you select the most suitable product for our needs? Before we get to that, a few things to remember:   Hand Sanitizer is NOT an ideal Surface Disinfectant, and vice versa. An antiseptic solution may not be the broad-spectrum Disinfectant that you are looking for A cleaner removes the germs, while a Disinfectant kills them Let us now consider each point that will help us choose the best option: Disinfectant Cleaner or plain Disinfectant? This one is easy. If
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Surface Disinfectant for Corona

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With so many different Surface Disinfectant for Corona products available in the market, how do you choose the one that works best? We decided to look for recommendations from an independent, respected, external agency. Our search ended at this page on the website of the Centre for Disease Control & Protection (CDC), USA As per the CDC, the properties of an ideal surface disinfectant are: Broad spectrum: should have a wide antimicrobial spectrum Fast acting: should produce a rapid kill Not affected by environmental factors: should be active in the presence of organic matter (e.g., blood, sputum, faeces) and compatible With soaps, detergents, and other chemicals encountered in use Non-toxic: should not be harmful to the user or patient Surface compatibility: should not corrode instruments and metallic surfaces and should not abuse the deterioration of cloth, rubber, plastics and other materials Residual effect on treated surfaces: should leave an antimicrobial film on the tre
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Disinfectants vs Sanitizers: What is the difference??

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We use the words Disinfectants (or Disinfection) & Sanitizers (or Sanitization) quite liberally. And in the post COVID-19 world, interchangeably too. So, are disinfection and sanitization the same? Quite simply put, no. To clearly understand the difference between the two it is important to first understand how they are defined. Let’s look at the definition provided by the Centre for Disease Control & Protection (CDC), USA for cleaning, sanitizing & disinfection: Cleaning removes germs, dirt, and other impurities from surfaces, but doesn’t necessarily kill them. Sanitizing lowers the number of germs on surfaces or objects—either by killing or removing them—to a safe level Disinfecting kills the germs on surfaces or objects. The three activities form a spectrum with Cleaning at one end & Disinfecting at the other. So, with respect to action on germs: Cleaning – doesn’t necessarily kill anything Sanitizing – doesn’t necessarily kill everything Disinfecti
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Know your Germs

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  When we talk about Disinfectants, we usually talk about how disinfectants ‘kill germs’ in a generic manner. Almost like all germs are same, or at least, similar. Of course, thanks to the Novel Corona Virus epidemic, we now know a thing or two about viruses. Enveloped/non enveloped, capsid, lipids are words that are a part of our personal lexicons. The sub microscopic pathogen space is a crowded collection of millions of species that – much to the Microbiologists’ delight – all have differing characteristics & properties. All germs (or microbes/pathogens) have a differing response to the action of disinfectants. Some are more susceptible (easier to kill) than others. Susceptibility of pathogens to Disinfection Action Though the microbe universe is huge, the following table captures the susceptibility of the pathogen families – in descending order of their resistance to disinfectants & antiseptics. Table: Descending order of resistance to antiseptics and disinfectants
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How to Select a Suitable Disinfectant Cleaner?

  With a multitude of Surface Disinfectant Cleaner options available in the market, it is a challenging task just to select the right product for one’s needs. Do you buy a Disinfectant Cleaner or a plain Disinfectant? Should you buy a Disinfectant Concentrate or a Ready to Use (RTU) pre-diluted variant? What is better - a Trigger Spray or a pre-wetted Disinfectant Wipe? What is better value for money - Aerosol Spray or No Gas Trigger Spray? Each decision can influence your user experience to a great degree. So, how do you select the most suitable product for our needs? Before we get to that, a few things to remember: Hand Sanitizer is NOT an ideal Surface Disinfectant, and vice versa. An antiseptic solution may not be the broad-spectrum Disinfectant that you are looking for A cleaner removes the germs, while a Disinfectant kills them Let us now consider each point that will help us choose the best option: Disinfectant Cleaner or plain Disinfectant? This one is eas
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Disinfectant Cleaner – Advantages of using a Concentrate

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Most Surface Disinfectant Cleaners are available as  Ready to Use (RTU)  solutions or as  Concentrates . The concentrated solution  is to be diluted  before use. RTU or a concentrate is, one of the factors to consider while  selecting the most effective Disinfectant Cleaner . Considering the additional effort required for diluting the solution, is there any advantages of using a Concentrate? The short answer is, yes! Especially in situations where the benefits of using the concentrate outweighs the inconvenience of effort. Let us evaluate all such situations. You should  definitely consider  using a Disinfectant Concentrate if: High Quantity Use If you are using a high quantity of disinfecting solution – for eg in setups like office, factory, shop, hospital, school etc – using a concentrate & diluting it before use is  very economical. For general use (like disinfection & cleaning of hard surfaces, furniture, floors, walls, kitchens & toilets etc), Germnix Con
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