Common Hydrogen Peroxide uses

Hydrogen peroxide is found in many households at low concentrations of 3 percent or below. It is most often used for treating wounds, as a disinfectant, for teeth whitening and as a clothes and hair bleach.

Hydrogen Peroxide as a Disinfectant

Hydrogen peroxide is a great way to disinfect your home. Use it to clean your cleaning supplies like those dirty dish scrubbers, rags, sponges, and toilet brushes (they don’t clean themselves). 

All you need to do is spray some hydrogen peroxide directly on the items, let it bubble up, and repeat. If something is really dirty, it can be soaked.

Using Hydrogen Peroxide in the Kitchen

After using Hydrogen peroxide to sanitise food safe surfaces, you won’t have to rinse away any product residue. Hydrogen peroxide works without the need for detergents and is completely sanitiser and fragrance free. In fact, you can spray Hydrogen peroxide onto uncooked fruits and vegetables, or even raw meat and fish, to clean them and prolong shelf-life.

Use Hydrogen peroxide to sanitise your cutting-boards leaving them safe and clean without leaving any soapy disinfectant taste behind.

Use Hydrogen Peroxide in the Bathroom

Another hydrogen peroxide use is for cleaning hygiene items like toothbrushes and loofahs as well as other kinds of sponges. It can also be used to disinfect facial cleansing devices and shaving brushes. When you clean your teeth, rather than rinse your mouth with water, use a low concentration of 1 percent (no more than 3 percent), to help fight gum disease and whiten teeth.

If you are struggling with mould and mildew in your shower, try using Hydrogen Peroxide, as it is a great anti-fundal. Just pour some in an empty spray bottle, spritz away, and wipe down. You can even keep a bottle in the shower and do a quick spray down once a day. Replace the solution when the hydrogen peroxide no longer bubbles on contact with metal.

Use Hydrogen Peroxide to Whiten Grout

Are your grout lines looking dingy? Dip an old toothbrush into hydrogen peroxide and go to town. They will whiten right up.

Hydrogen Peroxide has many commercial uses; here are the most common.

Hydrogen Peroxide for Commercial Cleaning

Hydrogen peroxide concentrations greater than 3 percent can deliver a deep clean, so commercial cleaners love it. Upon contact with bacterial and fungal build up, H2O2 product produces a foaming reaction. If there is a lot of build-up present, you can see particles that have been lifted by the cleaning action.

You may need to use a scrubbing brush to shift stubborn build up, then wipe it away with a damp cloth.

Hydrogen Peroxide as a Mould Cleaner

Mould thrives in areas where there is little light and airflow. Breathing in, eating, drinking, or touching mould can cause health problems, especially for people with asthma, sensitivities or allergies. Hydrogen peroxide is an effective solution to removing mould and destroying its spores. The hydrogen peroxide oxidises the mould.

It is not recommended that you use a dry brush to abrasively clean mould from a surface. This could release spores into the air, which may cause adverse health effects and spread mould to other areas.

First, spray Hydrogen peroxide so that it covers the surface of the area you are cleaning. Wipe the surface clean with a soft cloth, then reapply to prevent contaminating other surfaces.

Can Hydrogen Peroxide Be Used in Enclosed Spaces?

Hydrogen peroxide is safe to use in confined spaces such as shower cubicles or cool rooms, without worrying about inhaling toxic fumes.

If you are cleaning mould in an enclosed space however, we recommend you wear aN95/P2 disposable respirator. Standard dust masks do not protect you from microscopic spores and bacteria. Be sure to follow the manufacturer’s instructions and fit the mask properly.

Why Dentists love Hydrogen Peroxide

Dentists have many uses for Hydrogen Peroxide. The best known ones are water system contamination, mouth wash, wound antiseptic, teeth whitening and surface disinfecting.

Why Medical Practitioners Love Hydrogen Peroxide

Medical practitioners use Hydrogen Peroxide to disinfect surfaces and medical implements. It’s also useful for cleaning items in sickrooms such as thermometers and bedpans.

Concentrations of Hydrogen Peroxide that 70 percent or greater are used in industry for bleaching paper and fabrics but also in mining and even as rocket fuel in the early days.

A concentration of 35 percent Hydrogen Peroxide, with no additives, is called Food Grade and is used to treat products that may be consumed, such as meat, vegetables and drinking water. 

50 percent Hydrogen Peroxide is often used to treat swimming pools and spas.

Different concentrations and the inclusion of additives such as stabilisers will determine the most suitable uses of Hydrogen Peroxide. To learn what these concentrations are called visit our blog post food-grade-hydrogen-peroxide-vs-regular-pharmaceutical-and-other-grades.

You can buy Australian Made Hydrogen Peroxide from Mission Control Disinfectants at missioncontroldisinfectants.com/hydrogen-peroxide-australian-made-buy-online.

Mission Control Disinfectants produce any dilution of Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide you may require but only to a maximum strength of 12%. Only purified water is used in the dilution process, in order to avoid contamination from impurities often found in regular water.

Mission Control Disinfectants are the only manufacturers of Australian Made Hydrogen Peroxide to have been verified as such and thus bear the genuine Australia Made logo.

Any suppliers that claim to be selling Australian Made Hydrogen Peroxide are most likely buying from Mission Control Disinfectants and rebottling it, so as to resell with their own label. This is why they don’t have the Australian Made logo on their own product.