2000 Flushes
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I've been using 2000 Flushes Bleach for about 3 or 4 weeks now, and I'm so unbelievably impressed that I need to tell the whole world about it.  It's just a simple little "cake" that you put in the back of the toilet (the tank) that adds a few nice little chemicals into your toilet water to make it cleaner (and by "cleaner" I mean "deadly").  The website says it uses chlorine to bleach away stains and to deodorize.  All I know is that I was told to call poison control if the thing touched my skin.  I was a little concerned about the potential effect on my plumbing system, but the product packaging says it's safe for septics and sewers.  Sounds good to me. 

Besides the lethal nature of these harsh chemicals, the product is amazing.  My house has really hard water, which means it contains a bunch of minerals and salts that easily stain porcelain and consistently rust metal.  This meant that the toilet needed to be cleaned at least once a week, though the stains would start building up after about 4 or 5 days.  I decided to try these toilet cakes to see if they did anything.  It turns out that they do something quite different:  They prevent the toilet from getting dirty at all.  And they actually work.  I haven't cleaned the toilet since I started using these things, which means that this product is awesome.  One bad thing is that the toilet water smells like chlorine.  But since I don't drink out of the toilet [too much], it doesn't really affect me.  The cats might be a little mad, but they get their fill from the shower. 

On an interesting side note, 2000 Flushes is owned by the WD-40 Company, which is obviously the company that makes WD-40, arguably one of the most useful substances known to man. 

 Tuesday
May 23, 2006
10:34 am
Wendy:

David...I'm concerned about our cats drinking bleach water...we need to make a sign for our bathroom that says, "WARNING: Animals of this house will drink toilet water. Please put down the toilet seat in an effort to save their lives." or something to that effect.

 Tuesday
May 23, 2006
1:35 pm
Shara:

Toilet cake is a really gross phrase.

 Thursday
May 25, 2006
10:58 am
Dave:

Sorry, that's the best thing I could come up with.  I was thinking "urinal cake" because that's what sometimes sits in the bottom of urinals.  I figured a toilet cake would be the same thing as a urinal cake, but I can see where the confusion comes in.

 Thursday
May 25, 2006
4:54 pm
Dewayne:

I like the idea of using this product, but I wonder if there are any long term side effects from breathing the minimal amount of bleach fumes left in the air by it.  Can the minimal amounts of fumes of this product slowly build up in our body - like breathing second hand smoke eventually does?

Below, is a piece from "ScienceDaily" I was reading yesterday:

"These startling scientific discoveries illuminate the emerging field of epigenetics, in which single nutrients, toxins, behaviors or environmental exposures of any sort can silence or activate a gene without altering its genetic code in any way.

Rather, the environmental exposure triggers a chemical change in the body or brain that mobilizes a group of molecules – called a methyl group. The methyl group attaches to the control segment of a gene and either silences – or alternately activates – the gene. Either way, the gene veers off its intended course of activity."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051026090636.htm

 Sunday
Jun 10, 2007
1:54 pm
Wendy:

dewayne - very interesting post. i've actually started thinking the same thing. there are products like get clean by shaklee & meyer's clean day that supposedly don't release any such toxins. i wonder if it's better to be safe (than sorry) or go for convenience (and risk disease)?

btw, this theory is similar to cerebral palsy. people think that some children have a genetic weakness that is activated (un-suppressed, I suppose) by normal childhood shots.

 Monday
Jun 11, 2007
10:43 am
Payal:

You guys:

Have you seen those things that fit on the toilet bowl (mostly in the inside) and they spray some bleach / chlorine liquid everytime you flush? I see them in public bathrooms some time. 

I don't know whats gross : toilet or urinal cake?  Destroys the whole meaning. UGH

 Thursday
Jun 21, 2007
12:31 am
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