Force of Nature Review: Your New "Clean" Cleaning Best Friend
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I’ve said before that soap is soap is soap, and that you don’t need a million cleaners to tackle your house, you probably just need one, maybe two. Well, what if I told you there’s a product that really could fulfill all your cleaning needs and disinfect while you’re at it?
Read on for my honest review of Force of Nature cleaner. (Spoiler alert: Get ready to meet the EPA registered cleaner that is not only super safe for your home, your skin, your lungs, your kids, and the environment, but also kills 99.9% of viruses and bacteria.)
What is Force of Nature?
Force of Nature is a very simple cleaner at its heart. It is made of just three ingredients and utilizes natural chemical reactions to make the magic happen. I explained this a bit in my post about the best natural cleaning products (LINK), but here it is again.
When you buy Force of Nature, they send you a kit that has a salt and vinegar mixture that you combine with water in an “electrolyzer” that they provide. The electrolyzer uses electricity to take these ingredients and rearranges all the molecules into new substances: hypochlorous acid and sodium hydroxide.
This is possible because of basic chemistry. Think about how water is just bonded hydrogen and oxygen. Vinegar, salt, and everything under the sun is like this, to varying degrees of complexity. Most molecules react when combined in some fashion that creates “new” substances and a corresponding reaction. Some molecules need a little more help and can be “manipulated” if you know what you’re doing to create substances you want.
This can be done in a lab, or for simple processes like the one we see here, all you need is electricity. Force of Nature uses electricity to break the bonds of water, vinegar, and salt, so that all the elemental molecules are floating around on their own. In their attempt to rebalance themselves (think electrons), they grab on to different molecules than they originally had (because there are new, easier/better options). In this case, we end up with hypochlorous acid (kind of a mild bleach) and sodium hydroxide (lye, basically).
Hypochlorous acid is considered a cousin of bleach, just a different combination of molecules with chlorine, that is much gentler and works amazingly as an antimicrobial that’s actually a substance naturally produced by our immune systems. Further applications have been made to things like wound care, but there’s some work to be done in that research.
Sodium hydroxide (lye; see our discussion on castile soap LINK) works as a cleaner and degreaser that’s obviously in tons of cleaning products as well as things like toothpaste. It does exist in much lower quantities in this product.
Together these two compounds work to clean (soap) and to disinfect (hypochlorous acid). Most of the work in this product is coming from the hypochlorous acid. To me it’s somewhat similar to using vinegar (which disinfects as well) but is likely to be stronger and going to neutralize more bacteria and volatile compounds. I say this because it is of a similar nature to bleach, which does kill more bacteria than vinegar, though there’s not specific research to say hypochlorous acid is more effective than vinegar. We do have evidence that hypochlorous acid is effective though, killing 99.9% of viruses and bacteria, and it’s also registered by the EPA for disinfecting hospitals and for use against COVID-19. So yeah, it’s pretty great stuff.
How do I use Force of Nature?
So all this to say, Force of Nature can take the place of your favorite disinfectant and can do the job anywhere you would use any other cleaning spray. Force of Nature will wipe surfaces clean with the added benefit of knowing bacteria are eliminated.
This is all very sciencey so far, but I do actually use Force of Nature in my home. Once every couple of weeks, I use it all over my house, on every surface and for every purpose. It’s also my preferred bathroom cleaner. I even use it on the toilet bowl. Some people use Force of Nature as their one all-the-time, all-purpose cleaner. I could totally do that, I just don’t. Luckily, the somewhat bleachy smell doesn’t stick around for more than a couple minutes so you can do this without having a hospital smelling house.
The other thing I love about Force of Nature is that it makes an amazing travel “hand sanitizer.” I pour some of the solution into a little spray bottle and carry it around everywhere to sanitize the tables ny kids will lick, the grocery cart, and hands. Because it’s so gentle, it’s not so drying to me as hand sanitizer.
I will say, though obviously I’m not a doctor and make no medical claims, I have even used this in a pinch to clean booboos on the go. This is great for instances when I don’t have soap easily available and my little one gets a scrape that I just want to make sure I clean out real quick.
One final note I will make is something I picked up from someone else, that when you’re solution “expires,” as it has to be remade every two weeks, dump the old solution (which still works but is starting to lose efficacy) in your clothes washer (without clothes) for a clean cycle. Genius. What a great way to use up any extra product you might not get to (though I find I don’t typically have much left).
Is Force of Nature safe?
The nice thing about hypochlorous acid is that it’s much gentler than bleach, therefore causing less respiratory and skin irritation and being much less dangerous to keep around.
For instance, I wouldn’t freak out nearly as much if my son got ahold of this Force of Nature cleaner as opposed to bleach. This is because, for one, the chlorine (which is the part that could be potentially dangerous) exists in such fewer parts per million in hypochlorous acid than in bleach. In fact, this quality has led hypochlorous acid to be used as a safer (and highly effective) alternative for oral rinses in dental treatment. Additionally, very limited animal studies have shown no negative effects of even drinking hypochlorous acid. Obviously, that is not directly applicable to humans and more research would be needed to say one could drink this without toxic effects, but it is certainly comforting in a way.
I don’t like using bleach in my house because it makes it difficult for me to breathe (among other reasons) and I can’t imagine how my littles with weaker respiratory systems would feel with that around. I don’t have that issue with Force of Nature.
Is Force of Nature necessary?
I will say that this product is not necessary. Soap alone is enough to get rid of most of the germs, bacteria, and viruses floating on your surfaces. However, some of us like a good disinfectant either now and then or all the time…
If you’re a soap and soap alone girl, you probably don’t need Force of Nature. But if you like to incorporate a disinfectant on occasion or in certain places, you’d benefit from having it around. If you’re a Clorox wipe on every surface every day kind of person, you’re going to love Force of Nature.
If you are looking for a disinfectant alternative to bleach, Clorox, Lysol, etc., then you need look no further than Force of Nature. You won’t find a cleaner, more effective product out there. Plus, their model is sustainable, with the amount of physical product they have to send you being so small, that not only is it significantly cheaper for you, it also saves you and the world on the costs of shipping.
Summary / TLDR
Force of Nature is a very safe and highly effective disinfectant cleaner that could take the place of most, if not all, of your at-home and on-the-go cleaning products.
You can use it to clean any surface in your house or focus on specifically gross areas like the bathrooms. You can also take it with you as you go to serve as a hand sanitizer or disinfectant spray for all the nasty surfaces we encounter out and about.
One of my favorite things about Force of Nature is that it’s much safer to keep around kids than other similar products like bleach and is much gentler on our adult and our little ones’ bodies.
Beyond these simple things, Force of Nature is also an affordable and sustainable product that can help you reduce your toxic load, reduce your waste, and keep your home and your family clean, “clean,” and healthy.
FINALLY, Force of Nature is environmentally friendly, since the packaging of the product is so minimal, and this cleaner can replace so many bottles of other cleaners in your home. Adding the water at home means less plastic to hold mostly water cleaners and less shipping resources, since there’s overall less weight.
If you are interested in trying Force of Nature, which I absolutely recommend (as I said, I use it around my home and on the go daily), you can use the current promo code NEWME60 for 60% off the glass bundle (this is actually the bundle I started with, because I prioritize using glass over plastic) or NEWME40 for 40% off any bundle.
(I am a partner with Force of Nature and do receive a commission if you purchase through my links. However, as I’ve shared in detail, I highly trust and support them. I also keep this coupon code updated every month so it should work no matter when you’re viewing this post. If for some reason it isn’t. Please email me and I will get you the updated code ASAP.)
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