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What is Hypochlorous Acid (HOCI)?

Hypochlorous acid is nature's oldest disinfectant. HOCl is a weak acid with chemical name Hypochlorous Acid. It is also called Hydrogen hypochlorite or Chlorine hydroxide or hypochloric acid.

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🦠 Kills Pathogens in Seconds

Hypochlorous acid doesn’t wait. Unlike bleach or peroxide, which often require long dwell times and safety precautions, HOCl begins killing bacteria, viruses, and fungi on contact. It penetrates microbial walls instantly-disrupting cellular function and rendering the threat inert. It’s proven effective against E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, MRSA, and Norovirus. For facilities under audit pressure or contamination risk, speed equals protection.

🧬 Prevents Mutation & Superbugs

Where antibiotics and chemical disinfectants often encourage resistance over time, HOCl kills pathogens by oxidation-not poisoning. That means viruses and bacteria can’t mutate or develop immunity. It’s one of the few disinfectants safe for continuous use without increasing the risk of “superbugs” or mutational drift. Your sanitation system shouldn’t evolve its enemies-it should end them.

🍏 Food-Contact Surface Approved

HOCl is among the rare sanitizers that can be applied directly to food, not just food-contact surfaces. That means misting produce, rinsing fish, or sanitizing meat during processing-without post-wash rinsing or residue. HOCl is fully compliant with FDA, USDA, and NSF guidelines, making it ideal for facilities where seconds matter and safety is non-negotiable.

🧃 Extends Shelf Life of Perishables

HOCl not only kills pathogens-it slows decay. By neutralizing the microbial causes of spoilage at the surface level, it extends freshness for seafood, produce, and meat by 30–40% in many environments. That’s fewer spoilage losses, longer transport windows, and tighter profit margins-without preservatives or chemical interference.

😷 No PPE Required

HOCl is safe enough to touch, inhale, and use in occupied spaces-no gloves, no masks, no goggles. Employees can spray, fog, or mop freely without hazmat gear or downtime. In food plants, schools, or healthcare environments, this eliminates labor bottlenecks and creates immediate trust with staff.

👁️ Safe for Face, Eyes, and Skin

Used in ophthalmology clinics, dental chairs, and dermatology offices, HOCl is so gentle it can be misted around eyes, lips, and open pores. No sting. No residue. No risk. If it’s trusted in surgeries and wound care, it’s more than safe for your staff’s hands, faces, and arms.

🧸 Safe for Babies & Toys

HOCl is the disinfectant of choice in neonatal ICUs and pediatric clinics because it leaves zero residue and doesn’t require rinsing. It’s used to clean pacifiers, baby bottles, cribs, and toys-even those that go straight into infants’ mouths. It’s rare to find a sanitizer that’s this powerful and this gentle.

👃 Zero Odor, Zero Irritation

Unlike bleach, ammonia, or quats, HOCl has no chemical smell-because it’s made of what your white blood cells already produce. No throat burn. No itchy hands. No harsh fumes. HOCl feels like clean air, not chemical warfare-and that’s why people actually use it.

🐶 Pet-Safe for Skin, Fur & Paws

Veterinarians use HOCl to clean wounds, sanitize paws, treat eye infections, and spray kennels-because even if pets lick the area, there’s no risk. It’s safe for animals’ skin, fur, and respiratory systems, making it ideal for homes, clinics, and shelters.

💨 Safe for Air, Surface, Skin & Equipment

You don’t need four different products to clean your air, hands, countertops, and equipment. HOCl foggers can safely run in classrooms, kitchens, cruise ships, or gym floors-while people are still in the room. No rinse. No wipe. One molecule. Total coverage.

🌱 Eco-Friendly + Biodegradable

HOCl breaks down into two elements: saline and water. No volatile organic compounds. No hazardous runoff. No impact on soil, water tables, or marine ecosystems. It’s safe enough to rinse down a drain and clean enough for use in organic-certified operations. For sustainability directors, HOCl isn’t just greenwashing-it’s molecular integrity.

📊 Improves Audit Scores + Compliance

When regulators walk in, HOCl makes your audit smoother. It’s already FDA, EPA, and USDA compliant. There’s no residue, no rinse cycles, and no PPE violations-just simplified logs, clean surfaces, and safe chemical storage. From HACCP to SQF, HOCl checks the boxes most sanitizers can’t.

🐾 Safe for Pets, Vets, and Animal Facilities

Whether you’re running a grooming station, animal rescue, vet hospital, or kennel-HOCl gives you power without poison. It’s used to clean wounds, neutralize odors, sanitize cages, and fog animal wards-safe even if inhaled or ingested in trace amounts. No more choosing between safety and sterility.

🩹 Skin-Safe — Even on Open Wounds

HOCl doesn’t just disinfect-it heals. It supports tissue regeneration, reduces inflammation, and prevents infection. It’s already used in wound clinics and burn units. Spray it on post-surgery stitches, abrasions, or chronic ulcers-without stinging or harming healthy cells.

👶 Infant and Toy Safe

HOCl is so safe, it’s used in neonatal wards to sanitize anything a baby touches or puts in their mouth. Toys. Bottles. Cribs. Changing tables. Unlike bleach or alcohol, it doesn’t require rinsing-making it the go-to sanitizer for nurseries, daycares, and pediatric hospitals.

🌫️ Air Disinfection Without Chemicals

When fogged, HOCl neutralizes airborne pathogens without choking the room in chemical vapor. No VOCs. No respiratory stress. No eye irritation. It’s used to sanitize classrooms, dental offices, hotel rooms, and public transit overnight-leaving behind only clean air and cleared risk.

🖥️ Ideal for High-Touch Electronics

Spray it on phones, tablets, terminals, medical monitors-even elevator buttons. HOCl doesn’t corrode or short electronics like bleach or peroxide. It disinfects without disruption, making it ideal for banks, hospitals, classrooms, and shared office tech.

🔁 Replace 4–6 Products with One

HOCl can replace your degreaser, produce rinse, surface spray, hand sanitizer, wound cleaner, and odor neutralizer. It consolidates your chemical inventory, simplifies training, and cuts overhead. One generator. One molecule. Every surface covered.

🚫 No Special Disposal Required

HOCl is shelf-stable and non-toxic, so you don’t need special storage, disposal procedures, or hazmat services. Drain it. Dump it. Spray it. There’s no red tape-just total usability. Most facilities cut chemical compliance headaches by 70% within 30 days.

🧊 Cold Room & Ice Machine Compatible

Unlike bleach, HOCl stays active even at cold temps. It can be used to sanitize ice machines, seafood slurries, chilled transport bins, and walk-in coolers-without degrading its effectiveness. That means less cross-contamination, better cold chain safety, and higher shelf integrity.

🔥 Zero Fire Hazard

HOCl is water-based and non-flammable. Unlike alcohol or aerosol sanitizers, it won’t combust near fryers, stoves, welding stations, or heat-sealed packaging machines. You can spray it next to open flame without fear-giving your facility true fireline freedom.

🪖 Used in Disaster Zones & Military

HOCl is field-tested in the world’s harshest environments-from combat hospitals to natural disaster zones. It requires minimal ingredients, no rinse, and offers maximum microbial control. When water is scarce, time is short, and lives are on the line-HOCl is the solution.

🧼 Trusted for Trauma Cleanup & Odor Elimination

HOCl neutralizes bloodborne pathogens and biological odors instantly. It’s trusted by trauma scene remediation teams, crime scene cleaners, and hospitals for post-incident sterilization. It doesn’t just mask-it erases.

🧳 Travel + On-the-Go Safe

HOCl can be bottled and taken on the go-perfect for hand disinfection, hotel room sanitizing, airplane tray tables, and more. TSA-friendly under 100ml and shelf-stable, it gives mobile workers and travelers the ability to bring hospital-grade safety wherever they land.

💅 Used in Skin Clinics & Beauty Spas

HOCl is used pre- and post-treatment in dermatology clinics and spas for acne, peels, facials, and dermaplaning. It soothes, calms, and protects without irritation-making it the secret weapon behind some of the cleanest skin clinics in the world.

🧴 Natural Deodorizer & Odor Neutralizer

HOCl doesn’t mask odors-it destroys them at the microbial source. Whether it’s locker rooms, restrooms, food waste bins, or fabric-covered furniture, HOCl neutralizes the compounds that cause smell. No perfumes. No gas clouds. Just clean air and eliminated bio-load.

🧯 Safe Around Open Flame Equipment

Because it’s non-flammable and water-based, HOCl can be sprayed near fryers, ovens, blowtorches, or welding stations without risk. It doesn’t ignite, doesn’t evaporate explosively, and won’t react violently with heat. If your sanitation station is near fire-HOCl is your only sane choice.

🧠 Reduces Mental Load for Staff

HOCl simplifies everything: no confusing dilution ratios, no locked cabinets, no special handling. Staff spray and go. It builds immediate confidence among frontline workers, reduces training time, and lowers the fear that they’ll “do it wrong.” That means more compliance-and more peace of mind.

🧼 Simplifies Chemical Safety Training

Most operations require 4–6 chemical safety modules. HOCl collapses those into one. No hazmat rules, no eye-wash stations, no GHS symbols. That saves time, protects employees, and cuts the liability tied to chemical mishandling.

💡 Integrates with Automated Dispensers & Robots

HOCl is stable, non-corrosive, and compatible with auto-foggers, floor scrubber robots, and line-misting systems. It runs cleanly through automated sprayers and programmable valves without clogging or degrading sensors-making it a perfect fit for Industry 4.0 sanitation setups.

🧃 Certified for Organic Production & Processing

HOCl is USDA National Organic Program approved for use in organic produce, meat, and food processing. That means you can clean equipment, floors, and even direct-contact surfaces without violating organic integrity-critical for compliance in modern clean-label facilities.

♻️ Supports LEED & Green Building Credits

HOCl qualifies under LEED v4 credits for low-VOC emissions, indoor air quality, water efficiency, and chemical safety. It helps your facility meet sustainability targets while reducing the footprint of your sanitation process. Less chemical load = more green building points.

🔗 Non-Corrosive on Steel, Plastic, Rubber, Silicone

HOCl has been tested on stainless steel, gaskets, food-safe plastics, and rubber components-without damage or breakdown. You can use it on conveyor belts, tanks, seals, and spray heads without worrying about pitting or corrosion. Your equipment lasts longer. Your audits run smoother.

🏥 Supports HACCP, GFSI, ISO & SQF Protocols

HOCl fits into every major food safety framework: HACCP, ISO 22000, BRC, SQF, and GFSI. It’s easy to validate, easy to document, and fully compliant across multiple critical control points. That makes it ideal for processors with international certifications or export requirements.

🛒 Can Be Privatized & Bottled

EcoloxTech generators let you create HOCl on-site-but you can also bottle it, brand it, and sell it under your own label. With the right registration, HOCl becomes your white-label edge: clean, compliant, and scalable. Perfect for OEM resellers, distributors, or internal product lines.

🧽 Fast Drying on Surfaces

HOCl dries in seconds and leaves no film, residue, or stickiness. That means you can use it on glass, stainless steel, electronics, and packaging surfaces without smudging or buildup. No rinsing. No streaks. Just fast-dry sanitation that leaves your surfaces truly clean.

⏱️ Reduces Cleaning Time by Up to 40%

HOCl eliminates rinse cycles, reduces changeover time, and replaces multiple products with one application. It can be fogged, sprayed, or mopped-no dilution, no mixing, no follow-up steps. Most facilities report 20–40% faster cleaning cycles within the first month of switching.

🌐 Globally Recognized Across 40+ Countries

From the USDA to Japan’s Ministry of Health, HOCl is approved or authorized for food-contact disinfection in over 40 countries. Whether you’re operating in the U.S., EU, Australia, Canada, or Asia, you can deploy HOCl with confidence across borders and compliance codes.

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What is hypochlorous acid ?

Hypochlorous acid is a free chlorine molecule with the chemical structure HOCl. It is the dominate free chlorine species in chlorine solutions that have a slightly acidic to neutral pH. HOCl is a much more powerful oxidant than sodium hypochlorite (or chlorine bleach).

How does it kill microbial pathogens ?

Hypochlorous acid (HOCl) is a neutrally charged molecule. Bacteria have negatively charged cell walls. Just like magnets, molecules with the same charge will repel each other. For example, the negatively charged molecule of bleach (OCl-) is repelled by bacterial cell walls. This is not the case with HOCl which is neutrally charged. HOCl easily penetrates bacterial cell walls. HOCl either oxidizes the cell walls killing the bacteria or enters through the cell walls and destroys the vital components inside the bacteria

Can hypochlorous acid be made from chlorine bleach?

Hypochlorous acid can be made from chlorine bleach by dilution however there are limitations. Hypochlorous acid is almost nonexistent in a free chlorine solution with a pH above 9. Chlorine bleach has a pH above 13. By diluting chlorine bleach, the pH can be lowered however the concentration of free chlorine will also be lowered. Upon diluting chlorine bleach to pH 8.5, the percent of the free chlorine that is hypochlorous acid is less than 5%. More dilution will dilute the free available chlorine concentration to unuseful levels. Trying to lower the pH with acidifiers will not help either because chlorine bleach will react violently and the free available chlorine product will be lost as chlorine gas. Therefore, electrolysis is the only safe method for generating high concentrations of acidic-to-neutral pH free chlorine solutions that are dominated by hypochlorous acid. At pH 5, the percent of free chlorine that is hypochlorous acid is above 99%.

How is hypochlorous acid deactivated?

Hypochlorous acid is a strong oxidant that is seeking to steal electrons from another molecule. Synthetic surfaces are difficult to steal electrons from however organic matter, microbial pathogens, or oxygen in the air is easy to steal electrons from. Once hypochlorous acid steals an electron, it either binds to that molecule and forms a new molecule, reverts back to hypochlorite, or it turns back into saline.

How is hypochlorous acid made?

Hypochlorous acid is made through a process called electrolysis. By passing a sodium chloride solution (NaCl) through an electrolysis cell containing an anode and a cathode, electrolyzed water is generated. There are two commonly used electrolysis methods for generating hypochlorous acid, membrane cell electrolysis and single cell electrolysis. Membrane cell electrolysis converts a saltwater brine into two solutions, a strongly acidic anolyte of hypochlorous acid and a strongly alkaline catholyte of sodium hydroxide. Single cell electrolysis converts a saltwater brine into one solution, a slightly acidic-to-neutral anolyte of hypochlorous acid.

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