What do you use to clean your table?

[Skalite]

In school we use some sort of solution in unmarked bottles. I think someone mentioned that it contained Citrus. What do you like to use?

 

[Brendon]

We used a mixture of alcohol and water (50/50) when I was in school.

 

[Sean L]

My school used baby wipes!

 

[avid reader]

I have an oakworks, and it specifically states to not use a product with alcohol. I found that fantastik is the only product that didn't contain alcohol... my chair I use baby wipes...

 

[airforcewife64]

I found a non-alcohol cleaner/disinfectant at massagewarehouse. I don't remember the whole name (the bottle is at the clinic) but it was Citrus-something. I think it was around $5/bottle and it works great! I found it when I was looking for a non-alcoholic cleaner for my massage cups.

Try it....you'll like it!

Angie

 

[Chance M]

I use simple green and add lavender EO. Smells great, disinfects and gets grease.

 

[smallvoice85]

I found that Benefect disinfectant works great.

 

[Megan!91]

Alcohol-free cleaner / disinfectant

I don't remember the whole name (the bottle is at the clinic) but it was Citrus-something.

Citrus II Germicidal $4.19 for a 22 oz. bottle from Massage Warehouse:

http://massagewarehouse.com/itemdetail.asp?item=025+0001

 

[Pompal 09.]

I use a wipe, called Sani-Cloth and it works great. You can get at Wal-Mart for $1.66 + tax. The product is packaged in a round container over in the cleaners by all the other wipe thingys they have now. I am about certain you get around 35-40 of these in a package.

 

[Zallarion]

i use seventh generation's cleaners on mine.

 

[beholdtheglory]

re: what do you use to clean your table

I use a solution of water, dishwashing soap and vinegar. Put 2 Tablespoons vinegar and a small squirt of dishwashing soap in the bottom of a spray bottle. Fill with hot water. Shake to blend, and it's ready to use.

It cleans, cuts grease, removes odors, leaves no residue. This can be used all over the house by the way. You can use it clean your floors, your bathrooms, your appliances -- even your windows it will leave streak-free. I was amazed when I discovered this. I no longer keep a million different bottles of cleaning solutions in the house. Turns out, you only need this.

 

[night_life17]

I LOOOOVE the Seventh Generation cleaner.

 

[overthemoon]

cleaners

Just be careful that what you use is recommended by the manufacturer or they can void your warranty. I know that Omnova which is the vinyl manufacturer for pretty much every table manufacturer recommends only soap and water for regular cleaning. You can use stronger things for harsh stains but they are having a lot of trouble with the "citrus" products killing the vinyls. Even "enviro friendly" or "green" products can be harmful to vinyls. Like T.O., I also like Benefect Cleaner and Disinfectant. Both are OK on vinyls.

 

[Renee P]

Odoban from Sams Club. It is an anti-bacterial/anti-fungal/antiviral cleaner and deodoriser. I even put some in when I wash my sheets. Its great.

 

[Desk3Bound]

I seem to remember there being a germicidal solution we used in school called "Incide" or something like that. I never bothered to look it up as while it may work well on cheap vinyl, I'd never use that on my Dura Touch / Ultra Leather fabric. It must have had a big amount of alchol in it as it dried almost instantly and that's very bad for a fabric that is supposed to to stay soft and supple like Dura Touch.

 

[Omar]

16 oz spray bottle. Warm (not boiling!!!) Distilled water, 30 drops of lavender, 20 drops of tea tree, a little bit of the liquid germicide type of soaps - I have the Citrus one - (I believe 2 tablespoons) - mix it up, let it sit for a few days. Then spray away!

It's a mixture one of my buddies that does Reiki uses.

 

[Dragon]

I have an oakworks, and it specifically states to not use a product with alcohol. I found that fantastik is the only product that didn't contain alcohol... my chair I use baby wipes...

The school I went to also used fantastik for wiping our tables and chairs. I used it also after graduation. I plan to stick with fantastik.

 

[MikeL]

Neem Oil: WHERE CAN I FIND THIS? I NEED THIS STUFF>>>>>>

National Research Council ( NRC ), Washington, USA, has released a report with title as " Neem: Tree for Solving Global Problems.". The NRC Panel considers the Neem to be " one of the most promising of all plants and the fact that it may eventually benefit every person on this planet. Probably no other plant yields as many strange and varied products or has as many exploitable by-products. "

The Neem Tree is describes as Important, because of :

1. Anti Malarial
2. Anti Tubercular
3. Anti Viral
4. Anti Allergic
5. Anti Enzemic
6. Anti Scabic
7. Anti Dermatic
8. Anti Gingivitic
9. Anti Inflammatory
10. Anti Periodontitic
11. Amoebicidal
12. Diuretic
13. Spermicidal
14. Anti Pyrrhoeic
15. Anti Seborrhoeic
16. Anti Feedant
17. Anti Fungal
18. Anti Furuncular
19. Bactiricide
20. Insecticidal
21. Larvicidal.
22. Nematicidal
23. Piscicidal
24. Cardiacand lot of other beneficial properties of its derivatives.
SOME OF THE INSECTS AFFECTED BY NEEM PRODUCTS.

American Cockroach: Reduces fecundity and molts, reduces number of fertile eggs.

Bean Aphid : Reduces fecundity, disrupts molting.

Boll weevil : Inhibits feeding.

Brown planthopper : Inhibits feeding repellent, disrupts growth, making failures and sterility.

Cabbage looper : Inhibits feeding

Colorado Potato beetle : Eggs fail to hatch, larvae fail to molt with azadirachtin levels as low as 3ppm inhibits feeding.

Confused flour beetle : Inhibits feeding, disrupts molting, molting, toxic to larvae.

Corn carworm : Retards growth, inhibits feeding, disrupts molting

Cowpea weevil : Inhibits feeding, toxic.

Diamondback Moth : Strongly suppresses larvae and pupae, retards growth, inhibits feeding.

Face Fly : Retards growth, toxic

Fall armyworm : Retards growth, repels adults, inhibits feeding, disrupts molting, toxic to larvae.

Flea : Retards growth, repels, inhibits feeding, disrupts growth, eggs fail to hatch.

Flea beetle : Inhibits feeding.

Fire ant : Inhibits feeding, disrupts growth.

Green leafhopper : Inhibits feeding.

Gypsy moth : Retards growth, inhibits feeding, disrupts growth.

Head Lice : Kills, very sensitive to neem oil - traditional use in Asia.

Horn fly : Repels, retards growth, disrupts growth.

Housefly : Inhibits feeding, disrupts molting, repels.

House cricket : Disrupts molting.

House mosquito : Toxic to larvae.

Japanese beetle : Repels, retards growth, inhibits feeding, disrupts growth.

Khapra beetle : Inhibits feeding, disrupts molting, toxic to larvae.

Large milkweed bug: Toxic, disrupts growth.

Leafminer : Retards growth, inhibits feeding, disrupts molting, toxic.

Mealy bugs : Repels, inhibits feeding.

Meditterranean Fruit fly : Disrupts growth, toxic.

Mexican bean beetle : Retards growth, inhibits feeding, disrupts molting.

Migratory locust : Stops feeding, converts gregarious nymphs into solitary forms, reduces fitness, adults cannot fly.

Milkweed bug : Difficulty in escaping the "skin" of the last molt, disrupts molting.

Oriental fruit fly: Arrest pupae development, retards growth, toxic to larvae.

Pink hollworm : Retards growth, inhibits feeding.

Red flour beetle : Inhibits feeding, toxic.

Rice gall midge : Toxic.

Rice weevil : Inhibits feeding, disrupts growth, toxic.

Serpentine leafminer : High pupal mortality, retards growth, inhibits feeding, disrupts molting, toxic to larvae.

Sorghum shoot fly : Inhibits feeding.

Spotted cucumber beetle : Retards growth, inhibits feeding.

Tobacco budworm : Inhibits feeding.

Tobacco hornworm : Inhibits feeding, disrupts growth, toxic.

Webbing clothes moth : Inhibits feeding, disrupts molting.

Western thmps : Retards growth.

Whitefly : Repels, retards growth, inhibits feeding.

Yellow-fever Mosquito : Kills larvae, disrupts molting.

 

[mazy_bird]

Susan Sumner, a food scientist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Wahington State University, developed an effective disinfecting procedure using white vinegar (or cider vinegar) and 3 percent hydrogen peroxide (the same as found at the drugstore). These ingredients are completely nontoxic and inexpensive and work not only on food(fruit and vegetables) but can be used to sanitize counters and preparation surfaces, including wooden cutting boards, as well.

I wonder how it affects vinyl surfaces. I'm pretty sure it's not as bad as most products with chemicals in them. I like learning about healthier and alternative ways of doing things because I try to be ethical with my clients down to the molecule. I could never put my clients on a table knowing that it may have adverse effects on them. For example I know that memory foam is toxic especially when inhaling the toxic fumes deeply in sleep. I don't care how innovative or cheap, my clients should rest assure they're safe in my hands.