My laboratory is focused on evaluating safer approaches to disinfection ("green" or low toxicity disinfectants.) Safer approaches include saturated steam vapor, activated water, thymol and other plant ...

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A leading disinfectant producer has issued a strong warning not to use its products on the human body after Donald Trump suggested they could potentially be used to treat coronavirus. Reckitt ...

After the recent pandemic, our use of disinfectants has increased, but are our efforts to create sterile urban environments backfiring? A new study published in the journal Microbiome has ...

After the recent pandemic, the use of disinfectants has increased, but are efforts to create sterile urban environments backfiring? "Built environments offer distinct conditions that set them ...

It can also work as a natural disinfectant if you have been scratching ... It contains camphor and thymol, which can relieve itching, says Dr Mittal. You can crush fresh basil leaves and apply ...

Thyme, no less beneficial, is a treasure trove of essential oils like thymol, carvacrol, and cymol, which act as disinfectants, relaxants, and bactericides. They thin bronchial secretions, improve ...

They can survive drying out as well as most chemical treatments and disinfectants, including bleach. Humans get infected if they inadvertently eat soil or other material that has become ...