Lysol, Killing Germ since 1918
With new influenza strains developing every year, there is more and more reason to protect your family from germs by thoroughly disinfecting your home. The most trusted name in killing germs is Lysol, and our Lysol coupons are just what you need to buy Lysol for less. If our Lysol coupons aren't presently available, then check back again shortly. Fresh new coupons are always being added, so bookmark this site so you don't miss out. While you are cleaning, look through our other grocery and household supply offers.
The Chemistry of Lysol
Lysol is composed of a set of active ingredients that work synergistically in the fight against germs. Ethanol, Isopropyl Alcohol, p-Choro-o-benzlphenol, Potassium Hydroxide, and alkyl dimethylbenzlammonium chloride. Those are some science sounding terms indeed, but what they do is a lot less complicated.
Ethanol is the same thing in alcoholic beverages that are enjoyed on those evenings of relaxation. But, besides relaxation and the occasional rowdiness, it works quite well as an antibacterial sanitizer as well. In many of the hand sanitizing gels, their only antiseptic agent is ethanol. Ethanol kills little organisms by unravelling their proteins that make up their body, and dissolving the lipids they store their energy in. Many viruses, including SARS, are also destroyed by ethanol.
Isopropyl Alcohol is much like drinking alcohol but deadly poisonous and lethal. It can dissolve lipids and oils better than ethanol, removing any grease that might be shielding bacteria against the other ingredients of Lysol.
P-chloro-o-benzlphenol is a pentachlorophenol, variety of organic chlorine that operates in nature as an insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, algaecide and all round disinfectant. Other famous organic chlorides include DDT, Mirex, and Endosulfan. Pentachlorophenols are used widely to preserve wood, most notably the wooden power poles outside. They are soaked in pentachlorophenols, and this precaution expands their lifespan from 7 years to 35! But in Lysol it is used as a disinfectant. P-chloro-o-benzlphenol is absorbed into the microbes and poisons them from within, oxidizing them in a series of chemical transformation similar to the operation of a fire or rusting metal. Lysol burns away the germs with the pentachlorophenol. Finally, we are left with two last ingredients, Potassium Hydroxide and Alkyl Dimethylbenzlammonium.
Potassium Hydroxide is sometimes called potash lye, and when it comes across any lipids or fats, it converts them into soap. Any grease in the way of Lysol will be combined with the potash lye and transformed into soap, even fats that composes the exterior of a virus, or contains the energy of a bacteria. Alkyl dimethylbenzlammonium on the other hand is a quaternary ammonium, and is a premier disinfectant used in hospitals.
Aklyl dimethylbenzlammonium disrupts the enzymatic reactions that keep a bacterial cell operating, and a viral body moving. But the problem is it is hard to get the Aklyl dimethylbenzlammonium inside the bacterial cell, but luckily those ingredients previously mentioned rend open the outer layer of the germs. The Akyl dimethylbenzlammonium can do its job, and sabotage the functioning of the bacterial cell. But the cooperation does not stop there, the interference with the enzyme reactions results in a release of the lipids from within the body. These lipids and fats get dissolved by the alcohols, and in the alcohol is the potash ash waiting. Potassium Hydroxide combines with the lipids, and fats, thus producing clean hygienic soap. All of these ingredients together obliterate the germs, and do so in incredible speeds.
History of Lysol
During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Lysol was there to disinfect sick-rooms, faucets, and hospitals to prevent the spread of disease. The masses found it the perfect solution, and bought it by the gallons. Businesses purchased 20 gallon buckets of undiluted Lysol and cleaned their entire establishments with it. The countless germs destroyed in the process are a testament to the effectiveness of Lysol. Since then, they have perfected the formula.
