E-Cloth
We are giving away 2 General Purpose Cloth’s over on Instagram @sistersundercover! More info at the bottom of this post to see just how to enter to win!
While at the Natural Food Expo West, my sister and I came across this wonderful cleaning cloth. The fact that NO cleaners are necessary piqued our interest. Another bonus with e-cloth is waste reduction, it is good for 300 washes. If utilizing an e-cloth you won’t be using as many paper towels. My general purpose e-cloth has helped me prevent cross contamination, big bonus for me. This is great to use in a household like mine where I am the only paleo eater in the family.
Our opinion of e-cloth
My sister and I have tried both the General Purpose Cloth and Glass & Polishing Cloth and have been very pleased with both. I absolutely love that you don’t need to use cleaners just water to clean. Another positive is using the General Purpose cloth to give my counters a quick streak free look after I’ve splattered any water on the counter. The Glass & Polishing Cloth is the best cloth I have used in getting streak free windows and mirrors. You only need water to clean and rinse after each use and they are good to go again. Washing your e-cloth weekly will make sure they continue performing well. They are made out of polyester and polyamide, since I consider polyester to be another form of plastic I hesitated, I’m trying to remove plastics from my life. They are also made in China, would love that to change of course. That being said, I don’t need to use a million paper towels or any harsh chemicals in the kitchen to get it squeaky clean! It is making a decision, harsher chemicals or polyester made in China. This is not a regular microfiber cloth folks.
From the E-Cloth website
e-cloth’s General Purpose Cloth uses the highest quality microfibre mix to give it a long life and the right level of absorbency. Knitting, rather than weaving, gives the cloth more volume and surface area. This delivers enormous cleaning power and the ability to remove thick grease and dirt. It also enables it to retain its shape throughout its life.
Using just water, the results showed that the cloths remove over 99% of bacteria, locking them away inside the cloths special fibres, where they stay until the cloths’ are rinsed. Further tests showed that, after a rinse with warm water, e-cloths re-introduced just 0.01% of bacteria back onto a sterile surface.
* Silliker: The leading food testing organisation, with over 45 laboratories worldwide. Clients include Kraft Foods, Kelloggs, McDonalds and Carrefour.
* Silliker Study: To conduct detailed micro-biological research studies, to validate the effectiveness of using e-cloths on removing bacteria, using just water.
Test performed on e-cloth® using just water % of Escherichia coli (E-coli) removal % of Listeria monocytogenes removal % of Aspergillus niger removal.
Sillikers Interpretation:
The results of the study show that efficiency of cleaning with e-cloth micro-fibre and just water is close to the efficiency of competitor cloths using chemicals, non chemical additives and disinfectants.
Sillikers Interpretation of bacteria transfer:
The evaluation of bacteria transfer show that when the same cloth is used again (after simply rinsing under warm tap water), e-cloths remove bacteria, and the transfer of bacteria from the e-cloth to another surface is only 0.01%.
This is a great video Ruth Anne made to show the awesomeness of e-cloth and how it picks up bacteria from raw chicken off of the counter! It’s a little over three minutes & so worth the watch! She is using the Professional E-Cloth.
