Toilet Bowl Cleaner with Bleach

Similar to the technology used to produce cream cleansers, there are also formulas that can produce liquid toilet bowl cleaners with suspended abrasives [376,377]. The main difference between the cream cleansers and this type of product is that the suspending system should be acid stable instead of alkaline and/or bleach stable. Suspended particles are appearing in more and more of the toilet bowl cleaners. This has been commercialized in a gel form, which shows the suspended particles. 

The largest use of calcium hypochlorite is for water treatment. It is also used for I I and household disinfectants, cleaners, and mildewcides. Most of the household uses have been limited to in-tank toilet bowl cleaners. In areas where chlorine cannot be shipped or is otherwise unavailable, calcium hypochlorite is used to bleach textiles in commercial laundries and textile mills. It is usually first converted to sodium hypochlorite by mixing it with an aqueous solution of sodium carbonate and removing the precipitated calcium carbonate. Or, it can be dissolved in the presence of sufficient sodium tripolyphosphate to prevent the precipitation of calcium salts. However, calcium hypochlorite is not usually used to bleach laundry and textiles because of problems with insoluble inorganic calcium salts and precipitation of soaps and anionic detergents as their calcium salts. 

Read the labels before mixing household cleansers. Many toilet-bowl cleaners contain acidic solutions, as do some drain cleaners, rust removers, and, of course, vinegar. Never mix bleach with these products. You could sustain permanent lung damage. 

Wear safety glasses. Do not use bleach products because they will oxidize the pigment, rendering it insensitive to any changes in pH. You also do not want to run the risk of accidentally mixing a bleach solution with the toilet bowl cleaner because... 

The main component of bleach is sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl, which consists of sodium ions, Na1, and hypochlorite ions, OC1. What products are formed when this compound is reacted with the hydrochloric acid, HCl, of toilet bowl cleaner ... 

Three categories of bathroom cleaner are discussed here general bathroom cleaners, mildew removers (with some cross-over to bleach cleaners), and toilet bowl cleaners. Automatic toilet bowl cleaners are not discussed due to the dominance of solid, and not liquid, forms in this group. 

Do you want to know why bleach bottles have a warning label that tells you not to mix the bleach with acidic cleaning agents, such as toilet bowl cleaners The explanation is in Special Topic 5.5 below. 

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