Harold Baker is Dr. Laundry And He’s Got The Blog To Prove It
Clorox is best known for making your whites, white again. Yep, they make bleach which also happens to be one of the world’s most cost effective sanitizers.
If you want a one-stop source of laundry tips and advice for removing stains, using bleach and laundry basics the drlaundry blog can set you up. The site is sponsored by Clorox and there are a lot of Clorox products involved in the solutions they talk about on the site. But it is a good site with lots of great tips and probably a few tidbits of info you didn’t know.
Harold Baker
Harold Baker is the Senior Scientist for Clorox’s Laundry Care Product Development. He’s been fighting stains and developing laundry products for 30 years. I guess it’s safe to say he knows what he’s talking about. He sees every stain as a challenge to be met and conquered, so it’s no doubt he’s come to be known as Doctor Laundry.
Bleach
If you skip on over to Clorox’s website you’ll find a great little solutions guide that will help you tackle all sorts of things that Dr Laundry doesn’t cover. It especially gives you a great insight into the many uses of bleach.
Bleach is cheap, simple and effective. That’s why it’s used by so many people and organizations for so many different things. Here’s a short list of some sanitizing jobs that bleach (aka Chlorine) is used for:
- General purpose surface sanitizing. Germs bad. Bleach kill. Bye bye.
- Purifying drinking water. Especially in third world nations or in industrial applications. But if you’re having a serious issue with your drinking water in a crisis situation, 6 to 8 drops of unscented bleach per gallon will disinfect it and kill all the bacteria. Add your drops, wait 30 minutes and you should be good to go. You can leave the bottle open for a half hour afterwards or tumble the water between two containers a dozen times to get rid of any residual chlorine taste.
- Killing mold. Mold can cause serious respiratory problems and can be a huge problem after flooding or in damp climates. Bleach kills mold as well as bacteria.
