what happened to Oxyclean?

[Jack Campin - bogus address]

I haven't seen Oxyclean on supermarket shelves for a year or so. What happened?

I've looked up a material safety data sheet on the web, which states the active ingredient is sodium hypochlorite. I don't believe the stuff I used to buy (thick pink liquid in a spray bottle) had that composition - there was no chlorine smell on reacting with cat pee, it behaved like a peroxide solution.

I am wondering if (a) there was more than one formulation sold under that brand name, (b) one of them was mainly peroxide or a related oxidizing agent, (c) it's been quietly pulled off the shelves as a result of the "terrorist liquid bomb" bullshit.

Or is it still available somewhere? The only supermarkets I ever go into are Somerfield and Lidl.

Finally, any suggestions as to where I can get peroxide for neutralizing cat pee? I know how to produce it from basic materials but that's getting a bit messy.

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[newshound]

You can still get a weak-ish hydrogen peroxide from chemists. Not expensive.

[Graham.]

Gives a whole new meaning to "Cillit Bang"

[Rod]

Last time I bought some H peroxide it was for medical purposes. And I bought it at a pharmacy. (Possibly even one of the ones mentioned as having been used by the bomb makers.) It was a couple of years ago, and things might have changed.

[Graeme Wood]

Waitrose have it.

[teddysnips]

That makes sense. Waitrose don't let riff-raff like terrorists shop there - they have to go to Morrisons. Or Tesco.

[Bruce]

It got even weaker just after the arrest of the terrorist plotters, some of whom were convicted last week.

Most pharmacies used to sell 5% or 6%, but it was reduced to 3%. Now it's back up there again.

[The Medway Handyman]

Are you sure it wasn't sodium perborate? Lots of stain removers based on this.

[George]

It got oxycuted.

[John Stumbles]

What about LiDL's (and others') oxy-action laundry cleaners? LiDL's W5 brand says "> 30% oxygen-based bleaching agent, < 5% non-ionic surfactants, anionic surfactants, enzymes (protease)"

[stuart noble]

Laundry bleach is usually sodium percarbonate, which fizzes like peroxide, but comes as a powder

[Rod]

STOP PRESS: Morrisons - £2-98 a pot with 50% extra free!

(Partner wouldn't take photograph for proof. :-( )