![]() ![]() Where bleach comes from, starting and ending as salt water, is a big part of what makes bleach environmentally friendly. In fact, The Clorox Company’s headquarters has always been in Oakland, California where the company founders first used the salt water from San Francisco Bay to make bleach! Once it encounters organic material (like dirt) or heat or sunlight, bleach very rapidly breaks down into salt (NaCl) and water, where it all began. Historically, our bleach was made in a simple process beginning with passing an electric current through salt water to produce sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and chlorine gas (Cl2) these two products are then combined, producing sodium hypochlorite bleach ![]() The bleach active in Clorox® Bleach is sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl). ![]()
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