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Oddly enough, good ole dish soap for most things. For those wonderful accidents I usually use Simple Green as its organic and non toxic, also a good degreeser.
Vinegar will eliminate urine oders and the such, as an added benifit the dogs don't like the smell or usually taste of it.
Hope this helps a bit.
Dish soap (usually SDS, sodium dodecyl sulfate) or plain soap like Dr. Bronner's (the two are very close to the same thing). Dish soap is all you need for cleaning toilets. Simple soap (potassium salts of fatty acids) is all you really need. First known human chemical synthesis. SDS is nearly the same thing, but a sulfate.
Vinegar (acetic acid), very good for Swedish finish wood floors and urine odors.
Sodium hypochlorite (bleach, arguably the nastiest chemical in our lab), this is a harsh oxidant but it kills everything instantly at low concentrations, and if you want to kill mold & mildew & viruses, 1-2% is plenty... Chlorox knockoffs for scouring.
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda).
Elbow grease.
Yeah, we've got stuff like the quaternary ammonium compounds, but who needs 'em?
Rule of thumb: if you see it advertised, don't buy it. We only need to be brainwashed into buying what we don't need.
I would not advise anybody to buy those antibacterial soaps and things. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the antibacterials are more dangerous than the bacteria. I believe one of the downsides of hydrogen peroxide disinfection of drinking water vis-a-vis chlorination is the toxic oxidation products of some of those antibacterials (I forget the details; I read it in Science).
I admit to a weakness for mechanics' hand cleaner.
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