Talk:Cillit Bang

Easy off Bam, base?

Ive been studying easy off bam degreaser (from australia) recently and found that it is in fact a base so its not the same as cillit bang, i also havent been able to find any information anywhere of what it might contain. I titrated the bam, using HCl to neutralize it and got a molarity of 0.104

this product is definently not safe for children and skin contact should be avoided

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.254.83 (talk) 14:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I bought Cillit Bang from the supermarket as a bathroom cleaner, in just two weeks of using it, it has taken the skin off my childrens hands, particularly my youngest child, all of our skin has gone very dry. I am having to use copious amounts of E45 at the moment to correct this, and have put the product in the bin. It should come with a government health warning for children. The effects have been quite severe. I had no idea how strong this was, and how it clearly doesn't just rinse off the surfaces. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.109.176.198 (talk) 18:24, August 20, 2007 (UTC)

Let me get this right. Are you saying a substance made up of various acidic chemicals might actually be damaging to a childs' skin?!?. NO WAI! I would suggest buying your offspring some toys to play with, as opposed to cleaning materials. Obviouscat (talk) 10:53, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair, it doesn't actually say that it's acid-based on the bottle (though it does say to avoid acid-sensitive surfaces which might be a hint). Also, it's thickness means that it does leave a layer behind unless you rinse well. It could pretty easily confused with a simple SLS-based detergent, as most people don't know WTF they're buying with cleaning products, and manufacturers don't really help. I think acid-based cleaners are brilliant, and use them all over the place (though not on small children), but it was only by accident I discovered that Cillit Bang was a concentrated acid-based cleaner, despite having seen a lot of publicity for it. 131.111.21.21 (talk) 21:39, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Amusing vandalism (removed, but here for posterity)

" Cillit Bang Grime & Lime can be used on glass, acrylic plastic, ceramics (wash basins, toilet bowls, etc.), wall and floor tiles, PVC floor coating, chrome and under-3s.

Cillit Bang Grime & Lime should not be used on any acid sensitive material, such as marble or enamel, aluminium, copper, stone, zinc-plated metals, kitchen worktops, cattle, linoleum, varnished, waxed or oiled wood floors, rubber, textiles or carpets. "

Using acid-based cleaners on your 3-year old is not recommended, though cattle may well scrub up well. 131.111.21.21 (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bang! And the dirt is... gone!

Rumours abound that this cleaner is exceptionally strong in domestic terms, and that if the cleaning instructions are not carefully adhered to - staining and other complications can occur, particularly when used with surfaces such as enamel baths.

It may be useful for someone with first-hand experience of this to add information to the article regarding care which should be taken.

Someone has documented experience of Cillit Bang being used on unsuitable surfaces. See http://bang.adamwelch.co.uk/, perhaps it could be worked into the article? Deszmond

Name derivation

Where does the name come from? I know what Bang means, but what about the Cillit? DavidFarmbrough 13:53, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Anagram (almost) of Illicit Bang? Seriously though, I'd imagine it refers to the various ingredients, like Persil refers Perborate-Silicate. Maybe it contains some Silicon compounds. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 19:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cillit is a name invented to make it sound like a German company. (to make it seem it has worldwide apppeal.) --Bilky asko 21:29, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't sound very German to me and I highly doubt a company selling products in the UK would deliberately market themselves to appear German.--Joe 1987 13:16, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Audi do... :Vorsprung Durch Technik" and all that. --Kiand 23:54, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It really DOESN'T sound German. I don't think you even get "C" for "s" sounds in German. It sounds, maybe Slavic? A Geek Tragedy 14:38, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In style and appearance it seems to be vaguely Dutch to me. Almost a parody of the kind of adverts you see on holiday when you tune into Dutch channels. Stannered 00:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the cillit in cillit bang was somewhere between and in joke and subliminal advertising. It sounds very close to "clit bang"

I think it's simpler than that. Until I saw the TV adverts, I thought the purple bottled newcomer to the supermarket shelf was pronounced "Kill It! Bang!". Perhaps in Chermany it is pronounced deeferently, nein? Veez der "K" sound, nicht der "S"? (ahem, sorry...). Incidentally, the Persil is a fortuitous double pun --- I don't know about the PerBorate Silicate (presumably the whitening agent?), but also the french word for Parsley IIRC... a herb sometimes used in washing waybackwhen, I have been told. (NB Citation VERY much needed on that one :D But it's still sold as Persil in france, so there must be some reason for them to buy "Parsley" washing powder)

Change

I have changed the article, Easy Off Bam is the Australian name not the American name. Adamshappy

It is also known as Easy-Off Bam in the USA. --Dave2 21:18, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gravy?

This has to be a joke... right? --dsm iv tr 23:32, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, it does ectually exist, we're not pulling your leg. --Yuvri 01:55, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I really thought this was a joke for the first half second or so. I was like, "WHAT bang!?". :) Zanturaeon 02:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Consumption warning

should one be added? we all know Cillit Bang is very powerful, but the purple packaging is attractive to kids (vimto, blackcurrent). so should a warning not to drink Cillit Bang be added to the page?

I don\'t think so. Children are unlikely to read Wikipedia prior to going in search of bright pink bottles. Stannered 00:49, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: Fu kinell, please do not edit my talk page comments. Please read Wikipedia:Talk pages#Basic rules for all talk pages. Cheers, Stannered 17:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sorry - however Cillit Bang comes in a purple container.

With a pink label, and nozzle-spray bit. (I have not actually ever use a Cillit Bang bottle, so was going on the basis of the advertising. Google Image Search proved me semi-wrong.) Stannered 18:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

the we can agree: a purple bottle with a pink label?Fu kinell 18:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So it seems :-) Stannered 19:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Easy-Off BAM

It is also marketed as Easy-Off BAM in India. Polar 20:08, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My wife used this on our bathroom, fooled by advertising hype, and not fully reading the labelling... very tiny. It stripped the enamel off the bath, a very expensive bath at that. When I examined the bottle label, yes, it warns about its use on enamalised material, though very tiny. What I later discovered, the smell, acidic, is SULPHURIC, in addition, PHOSPHORIC acid is also in there. Read up on these two chemicals and their effects. At no time doea any of the powerful TV advertising warn anyone of its potential effects, like stripping the enamel from you lovely bath, the ad shows a lady squirting it onto her bath, and wow, one wipe, the grime is gone, plus the enamel, if you dont read the small print????!!!!!!!! My question is, how much enamel exists in the average kitchen and bathroom??? Contact with Reckitts elicits the response that you should read the label??? So, that makes it all ok???? I say, CHECK...... what SULPHURIC ACID does, I also say, CHECK WHAT PHOSPHORIC ACID does, both are in this product!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tosha abc (talk • contribs) 21:30, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Phosphoric acid is also in Coca Cola, your stomach is full of Hydrochloric acid, rainwater typically has some amount of Sulphuric and Carbonic Acids in it both naturally and as a result of manmade pollutants, and household vinegar is pure acetic acid. The link? They're all quite weak, actually. As will be the ingredients in these cleaning products, unless the manufacturers want to be slapped with a legal requirement to put a "hazardous" or "toxic" label on it, rather than merely "harmful" (to be expected with most cleaning products?) or "irritant". Weak acid will elicit a skin response ... if you have prolonged contact with it, and have failed to properly rinse after cleaning, wear rubber gloves whilst handling such powerful agents, or properly wash your hands afterwards. Please get your scientific facts straight before mouthing off so loudly. God only knows how mad you'd go if you know how much MORE damage common or garden BLEACH (high concentration hydrogen peroxide, or some kind of chlorine solution, usually - neither are pleasant) can cause in comparison. If you HAVE taken the proper precautions, I'd put the skin reactions down to either hypersensitivity to this stuff, or the fault of some other ingredient. Or maybe even some bleach you were also using at the time.

I mean, what next - are you going to freak out over how your skin is naturally slightly acidic in of itself? Give me a break. We're not talking car battery acid here, or concentrated nitric acid. They wouldn't be able to sell you stuff that strong and dangerous without both you and they having proper licenses. It will be about the same concentration as the Hydrochloric acid in the solution I bought to clean my car's alloy wheels, which couldn't beat an average puddle of vomit in a straight fight ... it's just far more convenient than throwing up every time i want to remove some stubborn road dirt. The citric acid in a lemon is probably stronger (and i'd use that, but lemons are comparitively more expensive!) 82.46.180.56 (talk) 19:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Further, contact with Reckitts, only ellicits ... the labels cover them, the advertising meets the Advertising watchdogs criteria. Upon stating that this product contains two very powerful acids, SULPHURIC and PHOSPHORIC, which both will etch enamel from surfaces, bath, teeth etc, one would expect more obvious advertising warning, and much more emphasis on labelling, ellicited the reply, that there is only limited space on the label, and only so much one can say on an advertisement. So serious set of chemicals and their actions, I feel, warrant a more informative approach, however, if they did, then the product might not sell anywhere near what is expected of it. The fact that it ruined my bath, to them is neither here nor there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tosha abc (talk • contribs) 21:40, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello My name is Jeff Atkins and I live in Chelsea, Quebec. My grandfather Herbert McCool invented Easy Off oven cleaner in Regina in 1932. I wrote a Wikipedia article on the invention and early years of Easy Off a number of years ago. I see that the Wikipedia Easy Off "tag" no longer takes the viewer to the original article. Indeed the contents of that article are no longer available at all. In light of the fact the the original article covers the first fifty years of the history of Easy Off it would be appropriate to make article available again through a reference to "Easy Off", so that those interested can see how Easy Off came to be and evolved.

Jeff Atkins Chelsea, Quebec 9 January 2013 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.129.253 (talk) 18:12, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No longer contains phosphoric acid

Cillit bang no longer contains phosphoric acid, at least in the UK you can get the product formulations for Reckitt Benckiser products here: http://www.rbeuroinfo.com/index.php For the european union. http://www.rbnainfo.com/productpro/ProductSearch.do For North America http://www.rb-msds.com.au/home/default.aspx For Australia.

The current UK formulation of Cillit Bang Power Cleaner - Grime & Lime in the UK uses Sulfamic acid, Formic acid and Oxalic acid, the Oxalic acid is probably responsible for its ability to remove rust stains (see wikipedia article for oxalic acid). The nearest Australian equivalent seems to be Easy Off BAM! Power Cleaner Grime and Soap Scum which just contains Sulfamic and Formic acid. And the US EASY-OFF® BAM® Grime & Lime - Trigger appears to be the same formulation as the Australian version. 188.220.252.46 (talk) 14:36, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Bias / Validity of article?

Is it me or does this read more like an advice and promotional piece on the product and not like an encyclopaedic entry?

A concerned anon 86.7.223.84 (talk) 19:51, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]