Every pet owner knows about the problems associated with accidental pet messes. Entering the lounge room, you suddenly discover a few mud prints across the carpet, or a mysterious puddle near the sofa. Your immediate reaction would be to grab the bright and strongly smelling spray and to start scrubbing hard to clean the stains.
After the quick application, you might enjoy the scent of artificial pine and citrus that fills your house instantly. In a few days’ time, however, after hot Australian summers set in, you realise that the smell you have been longing to get rid of has returned.
In reality, mainstream sprays and foaming products do nothing but mask the odour and whiten the visible stains, covering up the initial problem instead of addressing it properly. If you own a cat or a dog, most formulas simply fail to work efficiently. In this article, we tell you why you should give up the regular sprays and foams for good to finally make your house spotlessly clean and smelling great!
The Problem with Chemistry
Commercial household cleaning products normally use highly potent bleaching formulas based on various chemical ingredients such as chlorine and ammonia. They are designed to clean the spot on a cosmetic level, making you believe that everything is all right. While applying the chemicals on any stain, you immediately notice how it is removed; the surface becomes almost white.
However, what makes up the essence of pet messes? Animal urine and droppings contain lots of proteins and uric acid. Regular cleaning products have absolutely no effect on these substances; there is nothing in their chemical composition that could neutralise them. As a result, these formulas merely mask the smell using a strong scent, and when this smell disappears, so does the initial smell. And then your dog or cat will inevitably go to the same place to mark the territory.
Why Is Surface Cleaning Not Enough?
This drawback becomes particularly noticeable when working with the fabrics. Imagine that your pet had an accident either on the floor carpet or on the sofa itself. Liquid will not just sit at the surface but will deeply penetrate its fibres, backing, and often even under the underlay and floorboards.
Standard chemical products were created with a surface cleaning task in mind. Hence, they will clean off the surface of the carpet, leaving a huge layer of animal mess beneath. As the moisture in the room starts evaporating, odours will continue coming up. Whatever intensive scrubbing you try on your carpets and sofas, with the help of standard soaps and detergents, your house will remain unhygienic.
How Chemical Cleaning Products Can Harm Your Family
Another problem with harsh cleaning formulas is that they create dangerous conditions within your home. Dogs and cats always stay close to the ground; hence, they are likely to breathe the air full of potentially hazardous substances applied in the form of sprays or foam to different surfaces.
When walking on the floor that has recently been wiped with the cleaning product, your pets will leave a layer of chemical agents on their paws. Since they always lick themselves, chances are that the animals would ingest the harmful substances regularly, which may lead to serious allergic reactions.
Poor indoor air quality caused by volatile organic compounds found in most conventional cleaning formulas is another danger, especially if your house remains shut during the coldest seasons, when you turn on air conditioning.
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Why Use Specialised Biological Cleaners?
The solution to all these problems lies in the fact that biology works better than chemistry. An enzyme cleaning spray, or a specialised biological cleaner, includes enzymes that act on the organic matter, breaking it down and consuming it. When you spray such a formula on a stain, the enzymes will transform the remaining proteins, fats, and uric acid into harmless elements such as oxygen and water.
As a result, you no longer need to worry about harsh chemical solutions that cannot penetrate far beneath the carpet and are likely to affect the health of your pets. Such formulas do not harm your doggies or kitties because the organisms used in biological products are absolutely safe for humans and domestic animals.
Make Your House Truly Clean and Fresh-Smelling!
Now you see that there is a difference between seemingly similar products, and that it is not always enough to wipe your carpet to clean the surface properly. Make sure to check all labels at the bottom of the bottles, stored under your kitchen sink!
Replace the regular cleaning sprays and foams with special biologically active formulas, and enjoy the results!
