Ok, now in this third section what we
 
want to talk about are the different
 
products that are available for helping
 
you keep your sand clean. To
 
review this section what you need to
 
first understand is that there's three
 
basic ingredients that we're going to
 
talk about today. These two cleaners are
 
our ammonia-based. This particular one is
 
hydrogen peroxide. And this particular
 
one is a bleach base cleaner and
 
sanitizer.
 
Now the reason they have the different
 
ingredients is because everyone is
 
familiar with bleach, you know the smell
 
of bleach and a  lot of people can't stand that
 
bleach smell. Even if it's you know
 
very diluted it's still a very strong
 
odor. If you're asthmatic that's
 
something that you need to consider. So
 
when you look at these different types
 
of ingredients ammonia, we all know the
 
smell of ammonia, this is a very
 
effective sanitizer contact times
 
typically on the order of 30 seconds to
 
sanitize your material. Hydrogen peroxide
 
basically doesn't have a scent, in fact
 
the only scent that you're going to smell
 
is the fragrance that they add. But with
 
hydrogen peroxide the resident contact
 
time has to be on the sand is much
 
much longer to achieve that sanitizing.
 
So that becomes a difficulty to keep the
 
sand wet for long periods of time. The
 
most aggressive one is the bleach-based.
 
One we all know how effective bleaches are.
 
They use it you know in a lot of
 
hospital situations and in fact most
 
bleach solutions, like this this product,
 
actually don't even sanitize, it goes
 
straight to disinfecting. It does so
 
in in 30 seconds of wet contact time.
 
So those are the three types of of
 
cleaners that you can use on your sand
 
it becomes a personal decision i think
 
as to what smell what fragrance do you
 
like and then how much time do you want
 
to spend wetting the sand and having
 
that contact time. So i just want to
 
summarize the section that we've talked
 
about on sanitizing vs disinfecting.
 
There's three things that you really
 
need to keep in mind. One is you have to
 
read the manufacturer's instructions on
 
the back because the manufacturer knows
 
from their testing how long it takes to
 
achieve sanitizing. That's the
 
second point, it is that rarely
 
is there a need to disinfect your sand.
 
Achieving the sanitization
 
level is really what your objective is.
 
Finally as a sand geologist
 
you don't have to worry about spraying any
 
of these products on the sand, it's not
 
going to affect the color even
 
the bleach product. There's pretty much
 
nothing that can hurt the sand. It's been
 
around for millions of years and it's seen a
 
lot harsher treatment than any of these
 
chemicals. You can go ahead and just
 
use it without any concern
