Zoflora

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Do people still use this? Can I use it in my fridge?

I have the blackcurrant one. I wipe it over my radiators for a heavenly smell. I wouldn't use it in the fridge though, I use plain bleach in my fridge.

I just fill a bowl of hot water up with antibacterial fairy liquid and wipe out the fridge with this, works well.
Probably wouldn't use zoflora - if you do fully rinse off and dry before putting your food back in.

Great! I can get this easily thank you.

I used it in on the floors a while back

Yeah it's really good I buy the big bottles of it from b&m(it's the blue bottle) .
Another tip I use it on my oven hob with a washing up pad and also to wipe the sink out with - fairy works fab on grease 😀

I use it for everything, fridge, surfaces, floors, showers, everything. I have the fabulosa glass sprays and foam sprays etc too. You can use it in the fridge safely (diluted)

I use it for washing DD's school shirts and jumpers, the only thing to get the sweat smell out of polycotton fabric and same with DH's running shirts.

Not everytime but maybe once a month I put a bit in the fabric conditioner slot in the washing machine.

I loved Zoflora,and used it everywhere. Then I got diagnosed with COPD. Just a whiff of it now causes an exacerbation, sometimes bad enough to put me in hospital.I had to wave it a sad, but necessary goodbye.

I wouldn't - a bit of research into the ingredients will show that they're quite toxic, and even if you dismiss that because they are deemed 'safe', it's not good once it gets into the water system. Hot soapy water will clean most surfaces in the kitchen, especially the fridge. I do use other things, especially vinegar/washing up liquid for the cooker, but I wouldn't use Zoflora on surfaces where I stored or prepared food. I do keep a bottle for cleaning up after pet accidents, and I wiped over the bathroom with a solution when we had covid in the house. Not sure I would bother with that now.

Sounds like I just need washing up liquid!

I used it during covid in the wash back in the early days but yeah.. now I've thought about it that can't be good for wildlife

It's not recommended to use anything toxic other than soapy water in fridges, microwaves etc.
Would you really want your fridge to stink and your food to taste weird?

I can't be in the proximity of anything that has been Zoflora'd it makes me ill, and I am not alone in this.

Fair point

I thought this was a baby name thread. Little baby zoflora is kind of cute 😂

It does look like a baby name. Unfortunate it is such disgusting stuff though.

Zoflora for a girl, Dettox for her brother.

I'm sure it would be fine as long as you thoroughly wiped after with just water.

I v rarely use disinfectant for anything. I clean the fridge with just a regular kitchen spray.

It smells disgusting, awful chemicals to breathe in and end up in the water course, why would anyone use bleach in the fridge either?? My mind boggles tbh

Most fridges now have an inbuilt anti-bac in the plastic, and they reccomend just hot soapy water.

Really?
Doesn't it ruin the clothes?

It smells vile, all varieties. Use diluted white vinegar with a couple of drops of essential oil.

I think we have to reframe what we think of as ‘dirty’ somehow.

a layer of toxic chemicals lying over every surface and entering the water system is dirtier than a few rogue bacteria. Beneficial bacteria are necessary for life, our skin is necessarily covered in them and our guts are home to trillions.

Regular cleaning with minimal products eg soap and hot water, reduces the likelihood of pathogenic bacteria to a manageable level without exposing your health or the environment to damage.

I am kind of thinking out loud as Covid has made us all have to reframe our postc19 attitude to what actually is ‘clean’. I went to a posh supermarket recently and then to a B&M in a more deprived area, it is the latter that had rows and rows of P&G and Unilever brightly coloured chemicals all giving people in less affluent circs the belief that they are failing in domestic hygiene if they’re not buying all this crap. Rich people apparently just use some undyed Castile soap for £xxx and the occasional lemon.

So far it doesn't. I don't pour it right on the fabric, it goes in like fabric conditioner and is then diluted.

Yes I only want to use it when someone's been ill or once in a while the fridge needs a really good clean.

We have a REALLY old fridge

I agree. I grew up with my mum using soapy water to clean everything plus a toilet cleaner.

This is what I basically have as well, the only addition is a limescale product as our water is hard and limescale is difficult to shift. But I try to use as much eco-friendly products as possible and happy to get the vinegar out as well.

I never understood the idea that you need a different product for each room or surface when the actual dirt is often the same.

I saw a tip on here once to put some antibacterial hand wash on the armpit of clothes, bit on scrub and into wash as normal for bo smelling clothes. Works every time, even on dps work uniform

Yes I soak their smelly football shirts in a bowl with white vinegar then empty and soak with some zoflora to kill off any remaining bacteria before washing. Only method that kills the smell.