My friend has been using one and they say it’s an “ozone cleaner” and that it disinfects whatever you spray the water on?
Is this bullshit?
Here is the explanation from the website: Ozone spray is the amazing, easy-to-use cleaner, sanitizer and disinfectant made from just tap water. This patented ozone spray machine takes ordinary water then electrifies it, creating aqueous ozone, an earth-friendly, totally safe and chemical free spray to clean and sanitize countertops, floors, windows, door handles and any hard surfaces in your home or business. The EnozoPRO (Hygeia) aqueous ozone sprayer is battery operated and kills 99.9% of bacteria and common viruses in only 30 seconds
In: Chemistry
ozone is a gas made of 3 oxygens per molecule and is deadly toxic to all life, not just microbes.
Ozone is horrible for your health, and your friend is easily deceived by random information they read while ‘doing their own research’.
Avoid obtaining information from them in the future lol
Electrifying water is indeed one way to make ozone, but it’s not a disinfectant, and exposure actually causes a lot of chronic health problems. [Here’s](https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/air-cleaners-ozone-products/hazardous-ozone-generating-air-purifiers#:~:text=Because%20ozone%20reacts%20with%20some,viruses%2C%20bacteria%2C%20and%20odors.) a rundown from the California Air Resources Board (gov’t agency). According to the [CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0476.html) exposure to ozone can cause pulmonary edema and chronic respiratory disease, and it reacts with other molecules in the air to create a number of other toxic chemicals.
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Ozone is very bad for you, and not something your friend should be making on purpose!
How can they call it chemical free and say it releases a chemical that’s harmful when inhaled?
I work in water treatment. Ozone is very commonly used as a primary disinfectant before water is treated with chlorine and sent down to your house. However, it can’t be stored in a traditional sense and is bubbled through the water, and leaves no residual. I kinda call bs on this.
According to a [Donut video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P92fmLpxKHQ), Ozone kills bacteria in the way that it kills everything it touches.
It is very bad to generate ozone indoors. It is a serious pollutant, hazardous to all life. Even if it works (dubious), it shouldn’t be used in an area where people are actively living.
For example, you can use ozone generators to kill mold. However, people have to leave to house for the entire day.
We used to use one to clean and sterilize the barrels in a winery. Made the whole place smell like just after a rain
The hotel laundry I used to work in had ozone in 3 of the washing machines. A pipe cracked somewhere and the place stunk of it and we all got head aches and a sore throat. Not surprisingly, management were annoyed when we called for it to be fixed and refused to work in there until it was.
As much as everyone here hates ozone, I absolutely *love* using my ozone generator while me and my pets are out of the house to freshen everything up.
Ozone is effective at killing absolutely everything, from bacteria to bugs and mold or uninvited guests, has a very distinguishable smell , and is generally safe to use if you can leave it alone for an hour or two after it’s done working.
As far as the product in question, what it promises isn’t impossible or entirely unlikely, if it’s getting good reviews then it probably actually works how it says.
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