Clorox Splash-Less Liquid Bleach, Crisp Lemon Scent, 116 oz Bottle

Been using this for years, never thought it was a disinfectant, it keeps the whites nice and white. The disinfecting one would say "kills 99% of germs" right on the front of bottle. I use clorox cleanup for general household disinfecting. Unless you have a Covid patient in your house or are a carrier or run a care center, I don't know why people are going nuts with bleaching everything in sight. Also mix bleach with "cold water, hot water decomposes the sodium hypochlorite and renders it ineffective " per NCBI.

After reading these reviews, had to check my bottle and sure enough in fine print it says NOT for sanitizing or disinfecting. Someone else claims it's in large red print. Maybe it's on newer bottles once Clorox realized their mistake. Now I am stuck with no disinfectant. I ran out of isopropyl a few days ago. No bleach in the store.

I bought 3 gallons of the Splashless Clorox Bleach because it was all they had at our local grocery store. I thought i was pretty stocked especially during this pandemic thinking my home would always be sanitized, but... NOPE!! I later found out that the splashless one does not disinfect. I am so disappointed, because it looks exactly like the regular Clorox bleach. It is so hard to find the regular bleach especially during this time.

Another reviewer wrote that you could use this product as a disinfectant if you doubled it (2/3 cup per gallon versus 1/3 cup per gallon for regular bleach). I just wanted to point out that this product also contains sodium hydroxide in addition to sodium hypochlorite. Sodium hydroxide is otherwise known as lye and is extremely corrosive. So, this would NOT be a good product to use for making homemade disinfectant wipes, unless you also plan on wearing rubber gloves when you use the wipes. Also, it does not work for disinfecting dishes because it will leave a soap (lye) film on the dishes.

I suspect that Splash-Less Bleach is cheaper to make than regular beach and you figured that most people would not notice the difference and think because it smells like regular bleach that we would assume it would disinfect surfaces the same as regular bleach. Well congratulations, you fooled me. For the past two weeks I have been scrubbing my house with this product to protect my 87 year old mother from COVID19 in case another family member brought it into the house. Learning that my Clorox bleach doesn't disinfect is over the top.