Why Traditional Cleaners Don't Work
 Let's look at the language used to sell traditional cleaners.
Got to grab those cleansers that kill germs, right? Protect your family - destroy all bacteria on contact. Wipe out microbes that cause colds and flu. Eradicate microorganisms in the bathroom and kitchen. Stamp out. Annihilate. Obliterate. Eliminate. Abolish. Get rid of.
Sound like war?
It is. And it's going on in your home and office right now.
The trouble is, when we wage a battle using traditional cleaners that contain antibacterial chemicals, we kill everything. The good and the bad bacteria are destroyed - leaving an almost sterile environment - for a little while. A very little while. The traditional disinfection killed 99% of the pathogenic bacteria for just 10 minutes. Then the dead bacteria became food for surviving pathogenic bacteria. After a few hours the pathogenic bacteria multiply to their original numbers.
Remember how bacteria like to "chemically talk", then act as a community to build biofilm with a sticky exopolysaccharide layer that protects the bacterial cells? Bacterial cells in biofilms can be up to 500 times more resistant to sanitizing chemicals than free-flowing or suspended cells of the same species. And, studies have found that sanitizer concentrations and exposure times may have to be increased 10- to 100-fold to be effective against cells in biofilms compared with interventions found to be effective against free-flowing cells.
One reason traditional antibacterial sanitizers and disinfectants are not very effective against biofilms is that the formation of a biofilm leads to the expression of genes that make bacteria more resistant to sanitizers.
So, we may win a battle for 10 minutes but we lose the war. And we up the anti for the next skirmish because the pathogen is now more resistant.
Read more to find out how Chrisal changes cleaning strategies with a more natural, green approach using Chrisal probiotic cleaners.
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