Lysol is bad for your body and home, Does any-one use it?

Question

I don't use lysol my friend does a lot and she recently was diagnosed with skin cancer from harsh chemicls.

Answer 1

I doubt the lysol is solely responsible for her getting cancer.

Answer 2

No, I don't use it because that stuff stinks. Sorry to hear about your friend.

Answer 3

OMG! i use it everyday and spray my little girls room with it!

Answer 4

The stuff is not supposed to be used topically.  You are supposed to wear gloves and not breathe the fumes.  Lysol is a brand name of a bunch of products by Drackett-Benkster.  The products I looked at on this site are not listed as carcinogens.  Where are your facts?

Answer 5

I do use it when it is appropriate.  I think we use harsh chemical cleaners too widely when they aren't necessary.  I use organic/natural cleansers when I can for everyday cleaning.  Usually some kind of soap and water cleanup is what you mostly need, and for scrubbing some baking soda with soap or even a little vinegar does the job.  

For something extremely gross or when someone is very sick, however, I have no worries and no guilt about digging out the Lysol or a bleach based cleaner.  A meat drawer in which meat juice has leaked out and hardened, a bathroom that is being used by a very sick person, cleaning up urine, p**p or vomit, or just someplace that has grime that ordinary scrubbing with soap and water won't fix gets the chemicals, and I am grateful to have them.

I have never heard of skin cancer from chemicals.  Skin burns, yes, but not skin cancer.  

Answer 6

yeah, right. i HIGHLY doubt lysol gave your friend cancer. lysol is the best cleaning product i know of. i use it everyday, and i love it. the kind i use has NO harsh chemicals and cleans lovely.  

Answer 7

How can she be sure it was just the Lysol that caused it?

Sue the Lysol company and they will laugh you out of the courtroom.

Answer 8

I gargle with it. No cancer yet.

Answer 9

That's was probably from bleaching her hair so often and all of the makeup, and not the Lysol.

I think that first person is confusing Lysol with Listerine. It's really not a good Idea to gargle with Lysol.