The Eco^® Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaner E15 S15 is a general purpose cleaner designed to perform the job of multiple products, successfully cleaning your facility while taking up less inventory space.

Eco Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaner E15/S15 is a versatile cleaner. It is made for use on floors, walls, fixtures, and other surfaces. It also has a variety of applications. Apply E15/S15 with a cloth, sponge, trigger spray bottle, pump-up sprayer, automatic scrubber, foam gun, or mop. This hydrogen peroxide cleaner can have a powerful impact on solving your cleaning needs.

Eco Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaner is a super concentrated, powerful degreaser. It is more effective than ordinary, general purpose cleaners because of its hydrogen peroxide boost. However, this does not make it harmful for users. E15/S15 is butyl-free and environmentally responsible. It is non DOT corrosive and meets Green Seal^™ Standard GS-37. Green Seal standards are based on effective performance, concentrated volume, minimized/recycled packaging, and protective limits on VOCs and human and environmental toxicity.

E15/S15 is perfect for athletic facilities and locker rooms. It brightens grout and eliminates odors, leaving behind a fresh orange blossom fragrance.

Because E15/S15 is part of Buckeye’s Eco Proportioning Program, it comes super concentrated in a 1.25 L bag. This bag of product is then safely and automatically diluted with the Eco proportioning system, saving time and ensuring the product dilution rate is accurate every time. E15/S15 is one of many products offered as a part of the Eco Proportioning Program. The program is customizable with products and dilution control systems to meet your facility’s needs.

Contact your local Buckeye representative for more information.

Kill dangerous bacteria with Eco’s One-Step Disinfectant-Deodorizer-Cleaner E22/S22. This multi-purpose disinfectant can disinfect, clean, and deodorize. Eco One-Step Disinfectant E22/S22 is a heavy-duty, quaternary-based disinfectant, designed for use on all hard, nonporous surfaces.

For effective disinfecting in healthcare facilities, Eco One-Step Disinfectant is the perfect fit. It is EPA registered, bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, and mildewstatic. It has a variety of kill claims including, but not limited to, HIV-1 (AIDS Virus), HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) HVC (Hepatitis C Virus), and H1N1 Influenza A Virus (Swine Flu). Eco One-Step Disinfectant is great for use in nursing homes, hospitals, healthcare facilities, schools and colleges, office buildings, public facilities, hotels, and exercise facilities.

This disinfectant-deodorizer-cleaner is part of Buckeye’s Eco Proportioning Program. The Eco program is designed with the user in mind, diluting products with the push of a button. It can be customized to your facility, meaning you can choose which products fit best and what size proportioning system you require. The ease of the Eco proportioning system saves time and money, allowing you to accomplish more for less. Contact us today to learn more information.

An effective multi-purpose cleaner is a necessity for any maintenance staff. Using the right product can save time and money. Buckeye’s Eco^® Multi-Purpose Glass Cleaner E13 may be used for light spray and wipe general purpose cleaning and glass cleaning. It provides the best polishing performance with the least amount of effort. It’s a super concentrated, versatile, all-in-one cleaner with effective and efficient cleaning action.

One of the most beneficial features of Eco Multi-Purpose Glass Cleaner E13 is that it is a part of Buckeye’s Eco Proportioning Program. This program offers push-button and automatic fill proportioning, making it easy to properly dilute products. Diluting concentrated products through proportioning/dilution control systems is quick, easy, accurate, and will save you money. A 1.25 L bag of E13, diluted through an Eco proportioning system, can produce 57 quarts of end-use product.

E13 is also environmentally responsible. It contains no alcohol, butyl, or ammonia, making it safer for employees to use and preventing damage to the surfaces it cleans. It is fragrance-free and leaves no residue, drying quickly without streaking, reducing time and labor. Contact Buckeye International today for more information.

A cloudy haze on your floor finish can be caused by a number of things. Often when an autoscrubber or burnisher is used, small scratches can appear on the floor. Scratches like these are normally unnoticeable, but can stand out on dark tile flooring. It may take some time and careful examination to determine the cause of haze in your facility.

If you find that while using an autoscrubber or burnisher, it is quickly becoming caked with floor finish, you may have an issue with detergents. Always make sure that floor finish is applied with a clean mop and wringer. If the wringer has detergent on it, you will contaminate the floor finish before you even apply it. Detergent can also cause a problem when too much has been left on the floor from daily activities like mopping. Over time, the detergent can build up and cause a sticky residue that will not respond to buffing. The detergent will be ground into the floor finish and cause the floor to look hazy.

However, detergents aren’t the only sources that can contaminate floor finish. Dust mops may also cause buff haze. When you use pre-treated dust mops, always remember to air them out the night before you use them. Often pre-treated dust mops are saturated with oils that can seep into the floor finish and even onto the tiles themselves if you do not air dry your dust mops first.

When you begin to notice scratches in your floor finish, you may need to examine your daily cleaning practices more closely. Many things can cause scratches. Are you using the right floor finish? Buckeye’s Hard Floor Program has a variety of floor finishes that are customizable for your facility. Are you using the right floor pads at the right pressure? If a pad is too aggressive or too much pressure is applied, you may be inadvertently stripping off floor finish. Is the floor clean? Are the floor pads clean? If not, you may be grinding dirt further into the floor as you attempt to clean. The Buckeye Hard Floor Care Program includes extensive training and customer support that can help solve almost any flooring issue. With Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program, you can ensure products are being used correctly and customize you floor care program for your facility.

Unfortunately, when your floor finish is compromised in this way, you will most likely need to deep scrub and remove a few layers of floor finish. To do this, use Buckeye Eco^® All-Purpose Cleaner E11/S11, diluted at 4 ounces per gallon with a blue, soft pad. Then, reapply. Once you have done that, be sure to clean the new floor finish with soft padded autoscrubbers. When using autoscrubbers or burnishers, you may benefit from beginning with a softer pad and then later moving to a more aggressive pad. Contact Buckeye International to discuss how we can help.

It can be challenging to find a floor cleaner that deep cleans on all types of floors, and even harder if you are looking to find one that is fragrance-free. Buckeye Eco^® Floor Cleaner Fragrance-Free E32/S32 is a super concentrate and can be used on all types of floors and finishes. It is a superior cleaner, low-foaming, and pH neutral when diluted.

E32/S32 has many advantages and benefits compared to other floor cleaners. It can handle high soil loads and will not damage floor finish. The effective cleaning performance is proven to extend time between required floor finish strip outs. It is also Green Seal^™ certified, making it the environmentally responsible choice. E32/S32 is formulated to help minimize foam in the recovery tank of your automatic scrubber, allowing you to go further without taking the time to empty the tank. Another benefit of E32/S32 is that when used with an Eco Proportioning System it’s guaranteed to be mixed at the correct dilution and at the lowest end-use cost.

E32/S32 and the Eco Proportioning System are part of the fully integrated Eco Proportioning Program. The program has a simplistic approach to proportioning to help protect and preserve the environment, while helping you achieve the best overall value for each dollar spent.

What should your facility’s temperature and humidity be to ensure successful floor finish application? Many temperature and humidity combinations can produce successful results, however, one strict limit to follow is that the air and floor must be at least 55°F.

Pay special attention to areas where it can be colder such as near exterior doors, or the freezer aisle. Also, consider instances when the floor finish is left inside a cold vehicle, and always allow the cold floor finish to warm to room temperature. Applying a cold floor finish to a warm floor (or vice versa) challenges the floor finish to form a proper film. This can cause lack of gloss, and the floor finish could easily powder causing durability issues. Your floor finish should be 55°F. To measure the floor temperature, place a thermometer on the floor and cover the bulb with a Styrofoam cup. After about 30 minutes, read the thermometer.

The Buckeye Hard Floor Care Program includes a comprehensive training for your staff to ensure that products are being used correctly and efficiently. This program is dedicated to providing the most extensive customer support that can help solve flooring issues even when the cause isn’t obvious. With Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program, you can customize the most successful floor care program for your facility. Contact us today to learn more.

Winter weather brings many concerns, including slippery floors. Most people put down ice melt to keep entrances safer for people to walk, and walk-off mats to trap ice, snow, water, and ice melt so that they do not get onto the hard surface flooring. Unfortunately, these contaminants do find their way into facilities. Fortunately, a thorough wet cleaning procedure can remove these contaminants from the floor and prevent damage!

To start, you need the proper products and procedures to be successful at removing ice melt. You need products that will dissolve and chemically suspend the ice melt salts to keep them from re-depositing onto the floor while mopping or auto-scrubbing. You should avoid natural soap products and some synthetic detergent-based products. They do not contain the chemical ingredients to chemically bind ice melt salts in solution and allow the salts to re-deposit onto the floor during the cleaning operation. Products such as Buckeye Blue All-Purpose Cleaner, Tenacity^® All-Purpose Cleaner, Green Light^™ Super Concentrated Floor Cleaner, True 7^™ pH Neutral Cleaner, Buckeye Eco^® Floor Cleaner E32/S32, and Straight-Up^® Neutral Cleaner all yield excellent results for removing ice melt. These products are designed to chemically suspend and dissolve ice melt salts and keep them in solution. This prevents them from re-depositing back onto the floor. You can learn more about these Buckeye^® products and more here.

Removing ice melt isn’t the only tricky cleaning task that comes along with winter weather. You also need to adjust how you mop or auto-scrub floors. It is best to start away from outside entrances and work towards them. If you are mopping, change the cleaning solution often so as not to overload the cleaning solution with ice melt salts. By following this procedure, you will not spread ice melt residues over floor areas that might have been cleaner before you started. Cleaning during winter weather doesn’t have to be difficult if you have the proper products and procedures. Buckeye’s full line of products can help clean smooth or textured flooring. With Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program, you can customize the most successful floor care program for your facility. It helps you maintain your floors by using superior products that require less labor, increase efficiency, and produce excellent results. Contact us today to get started!

The Buckeye Eco^® Proportioning Program will help you achieve the best overall value for each dollar spent with products that are effective, safer, and economical, and packaging that is flexible and sustainable. Eco products are super concentrated and packaged in 1.25 L bags that are hermetically sealed to ensure no contamination, and manufactured with 83% less plastic than rigid containers so less waste goes to landfills.

The Eco program is ideal for cleaning in any area including food service areas. Eco Sanitizer E62/S62 is a broad-range sanitizer that can be used on walls, floors, fixtures, and on food processing and preparation surfaces. To clean glass and acrylic plastic surfaces covering food surfaces, use Eco Multi-Purpose Glass Cleaner E13. Eco Heavy-Duty Cleaner E61/S61 can be used to clean stainless steel and food contact surfaces in cafeteria settings. To disinfect trash receptacles, use Eco One-Step Disinfectant/Deodorizer/Cleaner E22/S22. Using these Eco products will improve the overall cleanliness of your food service area. Learn more about the Eco Proportioning Program here.

This is a question that is, unfortunately, familiar to many people in the cleaning industry.

With floors, dirt is transported from a floor to a mop head, then to a wringer, a bucket, and then a drain. If what you use to pick up the dirt is not absorbent, your floors will look filmy.

Many times, the applicators used to clean a floor are wetted with a cleaner and that cleaner is rubbed around on the floor. This leaves a layer of water, plus detergents and dirt behind. To prevent this, thoroughly dry the microfiber or flat mop before using it so it transports dirt back to the bucket.

Here is one way to demonstrate the effectiveness of a cleaning tool, string mop or flat mop, to clean an area:

1. Allow the string mop or flat mop to dry.
2. Place a very white gym sock over one of your hands.
3. Moisten the gym sock with warm water and squeeze out as much water as you can.
4. Rub your hand on a section of the floor and inspect the sock.

A very sloppy wet mop head leaves so much solution behind that it takes a long time to dry, no doubt leaving dirt behind – this is the most common situation where a floor is left looking filmy.

Next, gently rub that area with a soft cloth. Then wipe up the water with a clean cloth, and reapply the quarter sized drop of water. This time, the water will bead up since there is no detergent present to help it wet out.

If your filmy floor issue still persists there could be a different problem. In some cases, the cleaning compound may attack the floor finish, leaving it dull. This can be caused by using aggressive cleaners like pH degreasers or floor strippers, or even from the use of moderate pH cleaners such as all-purpose cleaners.

Normally, Buckeye Blue diluted at 2 ounces per gallon and mopped on a floor does not attack floor finish. Buckeye Blue can attack a floor finish, however, when the floor is being mopped and solution is left behind on the floor heavy enough that it takes a long time to dry.

During that soak time, the pH of the solutions slowly rise as the water evaporates and, as the water evaporates, the concentration of the active ingredients become stronger and stronger until the last 30-40 seconds of dry time.

You can also use Straight-Up^® pH Neutral Cleaner to prevent filmy floors. The chemistry in the true pH neutral cleaner does not suffer a pH spike no matter how long it is diluted or how long the solution takes to dry. Just remember that even though filmy floors can be a nuisance to deal with, they can easily be fixed with simple changes. If you have questions about the chemicals you are using, contact your Buckeye representative.

Soils can be difficult to remove from walls, floors, and other fixtures. Buckeye Eco^® Heavy-Duty Cleaner E61 is highly concentrated and can be used to remove pesky soils. It can be used in auto-scrubbers, other industrial applications, and on surfaces such as countertops and ovens.

E61 has many advantages and benefits compared to other heavy-duty cleaners. It works in cold water and offers superior cleaning and soil suspension. E61 is NSF registered, Green Seal^™ certified, and UL listed for slip resistance. Another benefit of E61 is that it reduces the amount of labor needed to complete cleaning, making it more cost effective. You can simply apply the diluted cleaning solution to the surface that needs to be cleaned, scrub thoroughly, and rinse with potable water.

E61 is part of the Buckeye Eco Proportioning Program. Be sure to achieve the best overall value for each dollar spent with the fully integrated Eco Proportioning Program. The program has a simplistic approach to proportioning to help protect and preserve the environment, while helping you achieve the best overall value for each dollar spent. You can check out the full benefits of the Eco Proportioning Program here.