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If you are open to suggestion on cleaning products, I suggest the brand I use- Bi-O-Kleen cleaning products. I am known as "The environmentally friendly cleaner." Another cleaner uses- "Baby Safe", and there are other types of claims, that are different from other cleaners. Do you want to be just another member of the herd? Why should any potential customer use you as compared to Mr. Cheap Cleaner, who will do the same thing for less than you want? I really do recommend switching to Bi-O-Kleen products, no matter what niche you promote. Look in your yellow pages, and see if any, and how many cleaners market environmental cleaning. Not many in my area, or others that I know of. These products clean as well as any others, and are cheaper than a lot of others, because they are more concentrated. For instance, the Fiber-Glow TM powder uses 1 cup to the 5 gallon chemical feed tank in the TM. Most other powders need 3 or 4 cups to the 5 gallon chemical feed tank. Most other powders are pH of 10 to 13, and don't break down well, or at all. Check the pH of the waste water next time you dump, and see what it is. The Fiber-Glow is 8.5 in RTU, and 7 pH when coming out the waste tank, so that shows it is rapidly biodegradable. It does not need an acid rinse, like a lot of others do, either, because it is neutral. The Fiber-Glow liquid concentrate uses 2 cups per 5 gallons of water in the TM chemical feed tank, and is 7 pH to start, and finish. Where and how do you dump your waste water? I don't really want an answer- just think about what all is in it. Wouldn't you prefer knowing what you are dumping is biodegradable, environmentally friendly, etc? For more info on Bi-O-Kleen products, do a yahoo or other search engine search. Put in the "Search for" line Bi-O-Kleen, and go. You will find a lot of interesting info on it, then compare what you now use to what is said by a lot of different folks. -------------- Bac-Out enzyme digester. The live bacteria/enzyme digester from Bi-O-Kleen I have tried and liked called "Bac-Out". One reason I prefer it is the very fast action compared to most similar types. On small urine, vomit, or diarrhea deposits I apply it before setting up my equipment. Then by the time I am ready to clean where the deposit is located- say 10 to 15 minutes, the digester has done it's thing, and the deposit is ready to be rinsed out, leaving no residue, or odor. It gets the stain in most cases, but that depends on several factors such as was there medication in the urine, dye in the food vomited, or passed. Bac-Out will not remove the dyes in these situations. For more severe urine contaminations, I apply it to the carpet backing after lifting it, to the pad if not discarding it, and to the floor, whether it needs sanded and sealed or not. The severe cases take longer, and more product, but it is very effective, and faster than anything I ever tried. It can also be applied to any furniture fabric that deposits have been put on. Even "S" rated fabrics- the deposits are water based, too, and Bac-Out is water based, but what are your options? I also use it on very small sewage jobs on the carpet (discarding the pad), where say a 2 x 3 foot wet area of a living room 15 x 20 is affected, etc., rather than discarding the entire room's carpet. It comes in quarts, gallons, and 5 gallon pails. I buy quarts for my use in the home, and buy gallons to refill the quart. I also buy quarts for re-sale to my customers, and by the case to stores, vets, dog groomers, etc. Bac-Out is a very versatile product. What other product will digest urine, vomit, diarrhea, spaghetti sauce, pizza, coffee, tea, wine, blood, a tracked stepped on raspberry, melted together cake and ice cream, removes water stains from carpets and upholstery, and most everything organic? None. I buy a 5 gallon pail to refill the gallon jugs to take on the truck. I also sell some gallons to customers. One house cleaner likes it for cleaning the grease, etc on the insides of kitchen stoves. It is a great grease cutter for restaurants, etc., besides it's main use of digesting urine, vomit, diarrhea, etc. I use a lot of it. It is shipped by UPS, or US Mail. Re enzymes. Most urine/vomit/diarrhea removal products are a combination of enzymes and bacteria to break down and digest the waste material. Certain of these types also contain a detergent to aid the process. I don't know what all is in Bac-Out to make it superior to other products of this type, and I have used a lot of them over the years, but on the first trial of Bac-Out, I could tell it worked better, and faster than any similar product I had ever used. Small urine deposits in a carpet are usually gone in a few minutes. Larger deposits take more product, and more time, of course. It knocks vomit and diarrhea deposits in minutes. Coffee spills, wine, most foods are also digested in minutes. Greasy restaurant traffic paths coming from the kitchen are digested in minutes. Bac-Out has hundreds of uses, including drain traps, and septic tank additive. Actually, it is sold and was developed as a drain cleaner and septic tank additive, and was discovered to work excellently on carpets and furniture, where organic material of any kind needed a digester to remove it. --------- Bi-O-Kleen All Purpose Cleaner- I keep an old Ivory liquid soap pump dispenser at the bathroom sink for hand washing, wash my car and van with it, basically use it for any purpose that I need soap for. It IS soap, dontcha know. All Purpose Cleaner was originally formulated to be a produce wash, made for a local produce store, a big produce distributor, and was only used for that purpose for several years- a different label at that time- it just said "Produce Wash". Now, any produce wash must rinse off totally, and quickly, and cannot leave a residue of any kind, because you are about to eat that apple, broccoli, lettuce, etc. With time, Jim, and others discovered more uses for it. It still says on the side of the label produce wash, and lists other uses. The second big use was for laundry. To replace Tide, for instance. Washes your clothes. Jim now makes a separate label for liquid laundry. It is All Purpose Cleaner with added ingredients. Then for hand dishwashing, with some different added ingredients. Basically the same stuff. About that time, I tried it on a wool oriental rug, then on nylon, and other loose rugs. I liked it because it rinsed off better than other rug shampoos. Then I tried it as a shampoo in the Chemstractor, bathed my dog with it. When the dog's hair did not fall out, I tried it on my own hair. Boy, am I ever game for new stuff. I have had the pump dispenser at the sink for several years, for hand washing instead of bar soap, because it rinses off faster than bar soap. I find that prior to shaving, after I wash my hands in the morning, I slather the remains of the soap on my hands onto my face, and rinse both my hands and face, then apply shaving soap. The All Purpose Cleaner seems to soften my beard better than bar soap, etc, and makes shaving easier, and closer. No, it does not replace shaving soap- unless you run out, and it is an emergency. I find it an excellent degreaser for removing greasy dirt when I do mechanical work on my car or truck, as it does not take out the skin oils, leaving them soft and natural condition. I have even used it a couple of times to clean my car engine. Pour it on, rinse it off. Another use for All Purpose Cleaner is to bathe my dog. Try it. I also use it for bonneting, shampooing in the Chemstractor (1 ounce to a gallon of water) mostly- more or less, depending on how dirty it is. Same amount for bonneting as shampooing. the purpose is the same, just more water for shampooing. Re the Bi-O-kleen Hand Dish soap's other uses. Because it contains Aloe Vera and Vitamin E oil, along with other ingredients specifically gentle to the skin for hand dishwashing, I also use it in the shower for a body wash and hair shampoo. Yeah, there is a regular plastic quart bottle in the shower for my use. Most of the time I use a natural sponge, putting some Hand Dish Soap on it, and working up a great lather. UUnnnnhhhh.........Yeah, I do like using it on the nylon netty stuff in the shower. Don't tell the world that Big G uses his wifey-poo's nylon netty stuff. It would be a real good scenario for blackmail. I prefer using a sponge to the nylon netty stuff, though. If you are interested, I will send along a price list. What you might consider is- as you run out of whatever you are now using, replace it with Bi-O-Kleen products. Photos of the Bi-O-Kleen booth at the CCINW convention Seattle, May 2000 Here is your reward for finding this page- * It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. * The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. * Paranoids are people too. They have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. |
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