Bleach Pen - Good For Some Things
Written: Mar 05 '07
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Pros: Works well on clothing stains.
Cons: Does not work on grout or caulking.
The Bottom Line: While this bleach pen has it's place in the laundry room, it didn't work as well in my bathroom. I had hoped it would whiten grout but it did not.
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| elzora's Full Review: Clorox Bleach Pen |
A couple of years ago I got a stain on a very expensive Ralph Lauren sweater. This sweater had thick blue and white stripes on it, and the spot was luckily on the white portion. I tried to bleach out only that area, but when my sweater came out of the washer, the bleach had spread onto part of the blue stripes, thus ruining a very nice sweater. It was just a few small spots, but it looked awful.
When I saw that Clorox came out with a Bleach Pen, I thought "what a good idea, why didn't someone think of that before?". I bought a blister pack of two at Costco.
Product Description
This looks like a flat, fat pen. It has two ends with removeable caps. One end has a fine point tip while the other has a broad scrubber. My last bleach pen was used up last week and I have since thrown it away, but I would imagine it measures about 5 to 6 inches long.
While the pen's contents does smell faintly like bleach, it is not very strong. The pen does contain hypochlorite bleach, but the concentration is much lower than with liquid bleach. The contents are more of a gel consistency.
It is recommended that you shake the pen before using it to be sure that the bleach and white gel are well mixed.
It costs about $3.50 for one pen.
Uses
* Most White Fabrics - even on the white portion of garments with colored trim or designs
* Grout/Caulking
* Areas around Sinks and Tubs
From the Clorox website:
The Clorox® Bleach Pen® Gel is perfect for removing stains from the white areas of your striped, floral, and patterned clothes because you put the bleach exactly where you want it. It also lets you target stains directly on tile, grout, caulking and porcelain.
If only I had this when I was trying to fix my sweater! It would have been perfect.
Product Claims
Clorox claims this will remove stains from:
Grass
Red Wine and Tea
Berry Juice
Mold Stains/Mildew Stains
Ingredients
Contains: Surfactants and hypochlorite bleach. Contains no phosphorus.
Thoughts
While this bleach pen works good for the occasional time I need to bleach a small area of clothing, it does not work well on grout or caulking. One of the reasons I purchased it was because I thought it would work nicely for whitening the grout in between the tiles in my shower. It failed miserably at that. I attempted to whiten my grout for a second time last week, thinking maybe I didn't shake it up good enough the first time. I applied it straight to the grout and let it sit for an hour until it was dry. I then attempted to spray the bleach mixture off my tile with my shower head, but it would not come off. I had to clean it off with a sponge, as it had dried to a hard white substance. When I had it all cleaned off, the tile was in the same shape as before I applied the bleach gel. Disappointed as I was, I put some liquid bleach in a spray bottle and sprayed my tile - 30 minutes later it was as good as new.
I did find that as the pen container neared empty it was harder to get the gel out. I had to shake it down, and when I squeezed it some sprayed out where I didn't want it go! (Just like that near empty bottle of catsup or mustard does!) It ended up right on the sleeve of my navy blue sweater, leaving a small brown spot. I took a navy permanent marker and turned it blue again. That worked great! (I don't know why it left a brown spot and not a white spot!).
Bottom line is that this pen works well for clothes, but I have had no success with grout or caulking, two areas that Clorox claims it works on.
Recommended:
Yes
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