Do you think greenworks is safe for aquariums? OR could be one day?

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The new line of Green works from Clorox is made from natural ingredients so do you think it would be safe to use in an aquarium? I doubt it but figured I would look into it some. I was thinking maybe someone with a little more scientific knowledge could shed some light on what ingredients might be harmful.

Green works All-purpose cleaner contains...
Filtered water
Coconut-based cleaning agents (nonionin surfactant;alkyl polyglucoside)
Corn based ethanol
Glycerine
Essential lemon oil
Biodegradable preserative
Blue & yellow colorant
Contains no phosphorus or bleach.
99.93% all natural


Just cause it is natural does not mean it is not dangerous of course....:frog:.... Plenty of natural plants will kill us if ingested.

I ask for a couple reasons. 1.) I have colorquartz that I can not get the oil off of. 2.) Maybe a future aquarium safe cleaner could stem from this.

I could find nothing about anyone else asking about this so I figure it is for obvious reasons (dumb question!) but I gotta ask anyways! :)
 
no, definitely nono... it contains ethanol... don't use unless you want drunk fish... besides, corn based ethanol is WORSE than gas for the environment... what happened to sugar cane :(
 
o, good point... it should be okay to drink but it will taste horrible(I mean the greenworks thing)...
 
Not ok to drink, not ok for your tank....no no no....."natural" doesn't mean ANYTHING. "Natural" and "Organic" do not mean harmless and do not mean "Good for the environment". All "natural" means as it applies to Greenworks is that they do not use oils to produce it and that it has a higher markup in order to profit on the fad. "Natural" isn't a defined term as it applies to non-food items. A few companies have tried to form an industry wide definition of "natural" but couldn't get other people on board.
 
Ok, Ethanol was the one I was concerned with as well. Clears that right up! :) Thank you for confirming everyone.

1oooop said:
no, definitely nono... it contains ethanol... don't use unless you want drunk fish... besides, corn based ethanol is WORSE than gas for the environment... what happened to sugar cane :(
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What do you mean?
 
I reacted pretty strongly to the drinking comment. Basically, never drink anything unless it's a food item. EVER. Depending on how much you ingested of Greenworks, you might only have a horrible stomach ache, or you would be bleeding internally...Don't drink household cleaning agents and don't suggest to other people that it might be ok to drink it. (on a side note, when Clorox was developing "Clorox Anywhere", there was a video of one of the product developers drinking it, showing how safe it is.....on the other side of that, there was a guy who was a leaded gasoline product developer who used to bath his hands in it to show how safe it was, then he died of lead poisoning.....but that's neither here nor there).


So, the two things in there to watch out for are ethanol and the surfactant alkyl polyglycoside. Both of those would be very bad for your fish. They are both pretty easily rinsed out. Ethanol dilutes easily, and the surfactant readily biodegrades in water. However, you don't want to leave any residual in your tank. Interesting enough, alkyl polyglycoside is a pretty good surfactant, and they have a decent amount of it in Greenworks, so for areas outside the aquarium, it's great for cleaning up oily messes.
 
All very good to know. I am glad you mentioned something about NOT drinking things like this as well, for the safety of the members.
 
The rum comment was to what 1oooop asked as to what happened to the sugarcane...rum is from molasses (a sugarcane bi-product), I drank all the rum so we're stuck using grain-based ethanol...

Guess no one got the joke.

I don't suggest drinking anything that's not marketed for consumption.
 
never mind... alkyl polyglucoside is used to brighten aluminum and as a paint stripper... glycerol is actually a sweetener that does not have any adverse effects but it's high calorie content it is also used as a soap :)... I'm not too sure about the biodegradable preservative but I think it is glycerin as it has preservative properties
 
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