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If you’ve been following me for any length of time, then you know my penchant for rewriting the rules of health and nutrition. My mentor, Dr. Hazel Parcells, was well known for her research into the tremendous healing properties of chlorine bleach at Sierra States University in the 1950s, and I have shared her bath and food soak formulas with my clients for decades now. But, because of changes to the original formula, Clorox bleach has been given a bad rap in recent years, and has been implicated in some respiratory injuries.
It’s true that undiluted chlorine bleach after the formula changed can cause respiratory issues, especially when mixed with other chemicals. But Dr. Parcells taught me that the original strength Clorox bleach, which is now available again as Cloromax, has great cleansing and healing properties when diluted and used properly as an oxygenating salt. Let’s break down the good and the bad of bleach, so we can once again enjoy its detoxifying attributes.
Clorox is the brand of chlorinated bleach that Dr. Parcells used in her research. It’s actually a salt, made by combining chlorine and sodium hydroxide (lye). Chlorine is bubbled into a solution of clean, filtered water and sodium hydroxide, which converts all the free chlorine into a solution of sodium hypochlorite. Because of this, Clorox bleach becomes an oxygenator when it’s diluted into a bath or soak.
Clorox bleach is a simple naturopathic, oxygenating salt bath that has been in use for more than 75 years.
Clorox bleach was originally a 5.25 percent solution of sodium hypochlorite and water. In recent years, they concentrated it to 8.25 percent sodium hypochlorite, which is when we started seeing an increase in respiratory injuries related to bleach. Now, Clorox brand has reduced the concentration back to 6 percent with their new Cloromax formulation, making it safer and easier to use for its naturopathic purposes again.
I have yet to improve on the pioneering formulas of Dr. Hazel Parcells to clear food or body of chemical and metal contaminants, so I still use them just as she taught me. It is important to only use unscented Cloromax formula Clorox bleach. Do not use scented formulas, powdered bleach, bleach crystals, or any other brand or formulation of bleach. This is the closest formulation I’ve been able to find that compares to the one she used during her research and is therefore the only one I recommend. I will explain in more detail in the next section.
Use anytime you are buying non-organic food or are unsure whether the food was raised using chemicals.
Use after any chemical or heavy metal exposure.
We have a surprising number of reactive chemical compounds available for household use, including natural cleaners that we just assume are safe. The truth is that every chemical we use, from natural vinegar to harsh drain cleaners, must all be used correctly or they may cause harm. Chlorine bleach is no different.
The problems using Clorox bleach occur either when it isn’t the proper dilution, or when it’s mixed with something it reacts with. Bleach only breaks down into salts to oxygenate pure, filtered water that has nothing added to it. Even a small amount of contaminant (like an added scent or impurity) in the water is enough to cause undesirable chemical reactions to occur.
For instance, roughly 25 percent of our US municipal drinking water is now disinfected with chloramines, instead of the chlorine we used to use. If the water were simply chlorinated, nothing would happen, but with chloramine, it can form chloramine gas, which is a temporary respiratory irritant. In addition, if the water isn’t filtered, chlorine bleach can react with contaminants, even when present in minute amounts.
Other chemicals that shouldn’t mix with bleach include ammonia, alcohol, and other cleaners – even vinegar. Fortunately, if you do experience respiratory irritation from any of these chemical combinations, it is usually brief and resolves on its own.
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