Jennifer Scott tries one cleaner to solve her cat urine problem. Unfortunately she was unsuccessful so she tries a second cleaner on the same area. This cleaner also falls short of her expectations so Jennifer panics and tries vinegar. Welcome to the world of cross contamination.

Jennifer originally only had to deal with the cat urine. Now she will have to remove three different layers of cleaning products and their associated ingredients in addition to that strong cat urine odor.

Clearly Jennifer Scott's problem has gotten much worse.

Lets’ perform the following experiment. Grab five different cleaning products from under your kitchen sink. Now pour one ounce of each cleaning product into the same beaker. Stir gently and let stand for five minutes.

Certain household cleaning products from your kitchen, bathroom and laundry room contain ingredients which are very inexpensive to produce and will produce catastrophic results if you are foolish enough to experiment with them on your carpeting and upholstery.

Each cleaner has a different combination of ingredients. Playing amateur chemist without the proper training and credentials will result in creating a mess of monumental proportions.

For many years we have advised against using certain cleaning products.

The most primitive of any cleaning product is chlorine bleach. Chlorine bleach actually occurs naturally when lightning strikes the oceans releasing tons of chlorine ions into the atmosphere.

Because chlorine bleach occurs naturally it is very inexpensive to produce. That is why it is the primary cleaning ingredient in many mass marketed television cleaning products.

Can’t sleep because your cleaning chores have spiraled out of control? Late night television commercials offer you a fifty five pound tub for only $19.95. But if you order right now they will send you a second 55 pound tub absolutely free.

Chlorine is very corrosive and results in serious damage to any fibers that are exposed to it. Using any product that contains chlorine bleach is a sure recipe for disaster. Chlorine bleach is not an effective countermeasure for cat, dog or human urine.

Mass market cleaning products disguise their use of salt by renaming the salt as sodium whatumacallit. Using any cleaning product that contains any form of salt will render those areas a sterile wasteland which are virtually impossible to clean.