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Green Cleaning Services, Inc. uses only the most advanced, most efficient, all natural, environmentally friendly cleaning products. Our goal is to implement green cleaning systems so that your organization can benefit from the newest and most advanced natural cleaning products and services that meet all of your cleaning needs.
Our green cleaning solution is more than just cleaning - it is true sanitizing and bacteria removal for any industry.
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Silver – The All-Natural Disinfectant
Silver has been known for its disinfectant properties for centuries. In ancient Greece and Rome it was used as a germicide.
Today, it’s still used.
The active ingredient in our green cleaning disinfectants is silver dihydrogencitrate (SDC), a patented, electrolytically-generated source of ionic silver which is stabilized in citric acid. This formulation took almost a decade to develop and patent. Unlike most commonly-used commercial or household antibacterial or cleaning products, it is colorless, odorless, non-flammable and non-corrosive. There are no fumes and it does not cause skin irritation. That makes it an effective and safe green cleaner.
How safe? The Environmental Protection Agency categorizes all antimicrobial products according to a toxicity scale from I to IV (I being most toxic and IV being the least.) Traditional disinfectants, which use active ingredients such as ethanol or ammonium chloride, fall into categories I and II. The SDC dilution we use is classified as category IV.
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How SDC Works
SDC’s power is that it acts as a Trojan Horse. Microbes react to the citric acid in the product as if it is food and ingest it. Once they do, the silver ion in the SDC ingredient enters the microbe and binds to its DNA. This blocks it from replicating itself and kills it. The silver ion also is attracted to sulfur-containing thiol groups found in metabolic and structural proteins bound to the surface of the membrane of a microbe. The SDC destroys the structure of these proteins, effectively killing the organism.
Common antibacterial surface-cleaning products are alcohol-based and simply kill germs on surfaces the moment they are applied. Our green cleaning products have staying power. Once applied to a hard surface, they continue killing germs for at least 24 hours. For high-traffic areas such as desks in schools and offices or tables and counters in restaurants, our green cleaning products offer a crucial benefit.
The SDC disinfectant we use also outlasts other silver-based products. Traditional silver-based disinfectants only kill germs for a short period of time and have a short shelf life. Not only do ours kill germs for 24 hours, but they have a shelf life of several years.
