Allison Evans

We need a produce cleaner.

We need a stain remover.

I mean, literally...

if you absolutely feel like you have to kill bacteria, so you just clean raw chicken.

I mean, it's been 20 years since I've used a disinfectant, but if you really feel like you need one, get out the hydrogen peroxide, get out 3% hydrogen peroxide and spray it on that surface, let it sit for a few minutes.

And if the combination of hydrogen peroxide in a separate bottle, a white vinegar has actual more killing power than Clorox.

And if you think about it, disinfectant actually doesn't clean.

If you look at the directions, if you flip it around, it's gonna tell you to clean the surface first and then disinfect.

No one does that.

We just pull out our disinfectant and we think that it's cleaning.

It's really not.

It's not gonna have the disinfecting killing power unless that surface is completely clean first of particulates.

So you might as well just use a clean surfactant.

I'm not here to push branch basics.

Obviously, I think it's the best, but you don't even have to use it.

Like I would rather see you have no branch basics and no toxic products under your sink and you have some vinegar, a hydrogen peroxide, lemon.

I mean, you can literally do almost everything with just that.

Well, listen, the CDC during COVID actually came out with a statement that said it is more effective to use a gentle surfactant or regular soap to tackle germs than it is to use in disinfectant.

And I truly believe, and so does science, it backs me up when I say that the homes with the highest amount of disinfectant use are the homes with the kids that get sickest the most.

Because you are, again, taking away that good bacteria that actually is used to fight off the sickness that you're being introduced to.