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Here’s What The Founder of De CleanRoom Says About UVC Light Disinfection for Australians

Can your wearable electronic gadgets be disinfected and protected from germs and bacteria in just 3 minutes? UVC CleanPhone Trio does it with UVC light. This product is tested and certified in NATA Accredited Australian Microbiology Lab.

De CleanRoom in Brisbane, Australia incorporates UVC light technology in our products to destroy microbes on surfaces and achieve > 99.9% disinfection. Founder Alice Be speaks up.

Where did this idea come forth?

My kids, like any other digital-aged kids, wear and use electronic gadgets daily – AirPods, smartwatches and smartphones – they are always cleaned with alcohol wipes.

My first thought was that high-tech hygiene should be done in a smarter, faster and safer way.

And I hate the thought of extra chemicals they are exposed to. So this is how the CleanPhone Trio stemmed from.

What problem do CleanPhone Trio fix?

Each day, you wear your smartwatch and sweat on it. Your AirPods are inserted into a warm and maybe wet ear which harbors bacteria. Phone, you bring it everywhere and place it in many different environments that collect and thrive the growth of bacteria and germs. In order to kill bacteria and germs, you normally use alcohol wipes. However, not only is this a time-consuming process, but it also results in drainage of money to buy wipes (a.k.a. chemicals). Chemical wipes can be both harmful to you and to the environment besides potentially shortening the lifespan of your gadgets.

With UVC CleanPhone Trio, you only need to place all three electronic gadgets inside this disinfection tool and tab the disinfection button to activate the process. In just 3 minutes, disinfection is complete and your gadgets are free from harmful bacteria and germs. You save time wiping down these gadgets and avoid the need of water and chemicals for disinfection. Brilliant!

UVC light disinfection process is proven to be a faster, cheaper and more efficient way to protect yourself and your gadgets from harmful germs and bacteria.

How does UVC CleanPhone Trio work?

UV light comes in three different wavelengths – UVA, UVB and UVC. Only UVC light is germicidal as it breaks down the DNA of living organisms and prevents a cell from dividing.

In order to protect the safety of any user, UVC disinfection mode can only be activated when the lid is detected in closed position. As soon as the lid is open when disinfection process is still ongoing, UVC light is cut off automatically, ensuring user is not exposed to UVC light at all time.

Our device is sealed off so no light can escape. It’s just a matter of closing the lid and the device does its job.
No extra training is needed.

How would you rate on scale 1-10 the amount of germs harbours in following gadgets:

Smartphone

AirPod

SmartWatch

How are you feeling about revealing UVC light disinfection, here in Australia?

For Australians, disinfecting electronic gadgets, especially cell phones is a tricky one. Either they want to do it, or they just can’t be bothered. So, the greatest challenge I have is to create awareness on how unhealthy our gadgets are and at the same time presenting the effectiveness of UVC light disinfection in helping everyone having the access to disinfect safely and do no harms to our environment. It is a long journey ahead and I know I have to be patient in delivering the message.

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The Next Big Thing in Phone Cleaning: Why Aren’t You Cleaning Your Phone?

Daily, you use your phone and you don’t clean it and go on with your day. But then what happens to your phone? Like… what is collected on your phone?

Simply put it: Dr Simon Park said it best:

For that reason, start taking phone disinfection habits seriously to safeguard your health and others.

Why Aren’t You Cleaning Your Phone?

It’s no secret that you find it troublesome to clean or disinfect your phones. The most you might do is wiping down on a tissue paper or shirt as it is too much of a hassle to grab wet wipes or chemical spray.

I totally get it.

If it wasn’t the eyes itching or someone coughed to the surface of your phone, or someone was having the flu and touched your phone, it wouldn’t have convinced you to actually clean and disinfect the phone.

But since 2020, the perception of phone hygiene has changed. What it used to be isn’t what it is today.

Why Disinfect Your Phone?

Try jotting down:

where you have carried your phone
the number of times you touched your phone
the places you kept your phone

After a couple of days, you might start pondering if your phone is really clean in view of the above truth.

You’re simply a ‘microbiologist’ of everyday life which you’ve often overlooked. But let us share with you one of our lab test results if you are still struggling to convince yourself why you should start disinfecting your phone.

Second, your phones are magnets to your own germs and germs you’ve picked up from other people or the environment around you. They are similar to portable petri dishes accumulating bacteria and viruses.

Third, the warmth your phone gets after your daily use and where you store it – backpack or pocket – make it a perfect place for bacteria to flourish which could then stay up to 9 days, says Journal of Hospital Infection.

Now we know how phones can get dirty and contaminated, but then what? Well, start disinfecting it!

What to Disinfect?

Basically anything on the surface of your phone. Even if you think it might be a good bacteria, but you are not a trained microbiologist. They might wreak havoc on your skin and immune system. So, why take the risk?

Here are the worth noting details of what SHOULDN’T stay on your phone:

Methods of Disinfecting Your Phones

Disinfecting your phone doesn’t have to be complicated.

If you want to keep nasty bacteria at bay, start choosing a disinfection method that is easy for you to access and you know you’ll actually stick with.

So, we suggest you disinfect your phone daily using any of the below methods.

If you want a chemical free disinfection, opt for UVC CleanPhone.

Now that I’ve shared this much detail about what’s lurking on your phone and a simple method you can adopt to stop breeding bacteria on your phone and cross contaminate it to yourself and others, what do you think about phone disinfection?

Are you going to start taking it seriously?

Final thoughts: Always remember UVC light disinfection is a great alternative to chemical and wet wipes disinfection.

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Shocking Revelations of The Use of SmartPhones in Aged Care Australia

Aged Care Facilities in Australia start UVC light phone disinfection

Whether you want to improve the quality of life for house residents in your aged care facility, provide greater protection for both residents and your team, boost the confidence of residents’ family members and reputations in the healthcare industry, offer better marketing packages or anything in between, it all begins with a quality cleaning and disinfection system in place to safeguard your facility and all residents. This includes all the electronic gadgets that exist since they pose a potential risk as being a source of contamination.

Here is the thing: A recent eye opening tour to an Aged Care Facility in North Brisbane has noted an increasing dependency on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices in the healthcare industry in Australia.

That’s great and it’s true.

With the help of smart devices like smartphones, daily operations in an aged care facility can be done faster and more efficiently. We noted these mobile devices are now widely used from checking residents’ external appointments, looking up for residents’ diagnostic reports to assist visiting doctors, referencing physio apps for rehabilitation by a physiotherapist, to nurses using phones as part of an interactive communication amongst nurses-residents relationships, just to cite a few.

Smartphones. Aged Care Facility. HAI Transmissions.

In this article, I’ll show you how you can adopt a highly reliable method to disinfect your smartphones at your aged care facility to minimise the Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) transmission risks.

Why SmartPhones Need To Be Disinfected?

Mobile phones are reported as one of the most highly touched surfaces and can be breeding grounds of harmful germs/ pathogens. This becomes a problem when your smartphones are not sanitized.

Picture this: When you touch a phone, nasty microbes already present on the phone surfaces are transmittable to and from hands, face, mouth and any other body parts.

Your healthcare staff may inadvertently put themselves and the residents at risks by using these ‘contaminated’ smartphones. As a result, it risks increasing Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) cases amongst your staff and more so on the vulnerable.

A Great Safety Culture Within Any Organisation Is To Lead By Example & Exemplify Good Initiatives Bottom-up.

Due to a lack of a standardized approach for smartphone disinfection in the healthcare industry, you’ll have to start cultivating the habit to disinfect smartphones regularly by raising awareness and education top-down within your facility.

This brings me to my next point.

The 3 options readily available to disinfect smartphones are wet chemical wipes, alcohol/ water solutions, and personal UVC disinfection tools (Germicidal ultraviolet light with wavelength between 200 – 280nm).

How To Choose The Best Disinfection Method For Your Aged Care Facility

Your healthcare staff are the frontliners caring for your house residents. They play a crucial role in demonstrating the right attitude and a shift in mindset to implement a timely and yet efficient mobile phone disinfection method to ensure residents’ well-being remains as your business’ main priority.

However, picking the right phone disinfection method can be overwhelming.

So to help you out, here is a list of considerations to think about.

By the end of this article, you’ll be well on your way to decide the best smartphone disinfection method for your facility/ organisations.

Instead of making mobile phone disinfection a tedious task, UVC phone disinfection is a scientific method that delivers highly reliable and consistent results (>99.9%). The secret recipe – UVC light at 253.7nm wavelength is extremely effective in destroying the DNA/ RNA chains of bacteria, viruses.

The added advantage – UVC phone disinfection tools are purposefully designed to disinfect phones. The only effort needed to get your phone disinfected is to place it in a UVC disinfection tool and the disinfection process is activated instantly (Some disinfection tools might require a tab on a start button). Within minutes, disinfection is complete and you can retrieve your phone from the UVC disinfection tool. Easy.

De CleanRoom has a range of UVC phone disinfection solution designed to suit your facility’s unique needs.

Option 1: UVC CleanPhone

A winning model which can fit almost handphone sizes currently available in the market. Its design is sleek and lightweight, making it highly portable.

Option 1: UVC CleanPhone

Option 2: UVC CleanPhone Trio

A very high quality product which houses Apple Smartphone, Apple Smartwatch and airpod in 3 well-defined compartments. This tool can disinfect and charge all your smart gadgets simultaneously. It is highly versatile.

Option 2: UVC CleanPhone Trio

Our products go through independent lab tests in NATA Accredited Australian Labs for product performance and quality assurance controls. The lab test results are shared in following blog posts which have proven repeatedly to be effective in inactivating bacteria/ pathogens > 99.9%.

We need to remind you, despite having a great phone disinfection tool in place, it is still an important aspect in life to take care of your individual hygiene from time to time. You shall always encourage everyone to:

Hanging Up On The Invisibles

Implementing a new habit to disinfect phones can be challenging. You and your facility need to be prepared.

Here’s the beautiful part – you now have the privilege to act on the information we shared to make sure you get ahead of the crowd. I believe you can.

It doesn’t matter where you begin – whether you have a large number of residents or just starting off with a new facility. Just imagine, a small little step like this can make a big difference in your aged care facility in a longer term.

Tell us what you think of UVC light disinfection? Do you see the benefits of disinfecting smartphones used in you facility that fewer people are talking about?

Comment below.

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How to Turn Your Phone Cleaning Practice into An Auto-Pilot Habit

Disinfect phone and smart gadgets with UVC light

If you have started to realise phone cleaning is no longer an option but an essential act, you’ve probably already come across some of these claaaasssicccc problems of:

Removing phone case

Rubbing phone surfaces

Using isopropyl alcohol wipes

Worrying about wetting the phone

Drying phone

Classic #1: Removing Phone Case

You need to know your phone has some hard-to-reach crevices between your phone and the casing that can easily trap germs and bacteria.

I know your pain – Removing the phone case to wipe your phone and wait for it to get dry is such a time-wasting act.

Classic #2: Rubbing Phone Surfaces

You religiously rub the phone surfaces with a phone cleaner because the label says “mobile safe alcohol-based disinfectant”. By doing this, you can potentially strip off the protective coating on your phone.

You want a fingerprint-free phone – You give your phone a quick wipe with your shirt, or your skirt or any clothes you can reach out at that moment.

Can you relate?

All that you’re doing is merely causing cross-contamination from your shirt or your skirt to your phone, and vice versa.

Bacteria Colonies Swabbed From A Mobile Phone Surface

Classic #3: Using Isopropyl Alcohol Wipes

You have to leave your phone visibly wet for 4-10 minutes to remove infectious microbes. However, what you might not have realised is the ‘kill’ time of wet wipes varies depending on alcohol concentrations.

Besides, even disinfectant with 70% alcohol concentration is unable to disinfect surfaces that are highly contaminated.

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) believes that ethyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol are neither effective as they lack sporicidal activity and can’t penetrate protein-rich substances. The latter also lacks ability to kill hydrophilic viruses.

Why Is It An Issue?

As you’re not going to have a reliable and consistent result from alcohol-based disinfectant, it’s obvious you’ll still be mashing your ear and cheeks with germs and bacteria even after wiping.

Classic #4: Worrying About Water Getting Into Phone

You always worry about moisture from alcohol-based disinfectant can enter the phone and fry the insides. And this is true.

Though it may look dry on the outside, moisture can linger internally.

P/S: Do you want to disinfect your phone in a fun, fuss free and environmentally sustainable way?

Scroll down to find out how UVC light disinfection works…

How Can UVC Light Replace Your Classic Way of Cleaning Phone?

UVC light disinfection is straightforward.

UVC light with 253.7nm wavelength is germicidal since it destructs the links in DNA/ RNA chains of viruses and bacteria. This causes microorganisms to become sterile, avoiding their growth and proliferation.

Your phone gets instant disinfection results (>99.9%) the moment it leaves a UVC disinfection tool – UVC CleanPhone.

Take a closer look at the results below:

Disinfection Results of Chemical Wipes against UVC Light

So what do you think?

Can you imagine switching to a hassle-free UVC light disinfection habit for your phone?

It’s fuss free and effective. Besides, you get consistent results irregardless of any phone sizes. I guarantee you’ll have more time to spend on other things that matters most to you!

Before you go on a berserk of grabbing any UVC light phone disinfection tool, make sure what you’re getting is a genuine UVC light disinfection tool that gives you real sense of security that disinfects, comes with built-in safety protection features and more importantly, delivers highly reliable results just like UVC CleanPhone.

Explore the outcomes of a lab challenge we shared in our blog post, UVC CleanPhone: A Naked Truth to learn more about UVC CleanPhone’s performance.

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How UVC Light Disinfection Help Your Teens Get Back To School With Extra Layer of Protection

Staying away from pathogenic microbes is more important now than ever. Keeping your teens’ mobile phones disinfected constantly is a smart way to combat these microbes and stay healthy.

Do you want to know how to help your teens to keep their mobile phones disinfected? How about ways to keep your teens motivated to make sure they continue the habit to disinfect their mobile phones and other gadgets without hesitation?

Easy! Let me show you a new way to disinfect mobile phones/ gadgets that’s so simple but no one seems to talk about it openly since there are some suspicions around. I know after you read this, you’ll likely be intrigued to start thinking to switch to this fast but effective way to disinfect your phones/ gadgets.

Let’s begin by taking a look at the following Studies which remind everyone the importance of maintaining a good phone hygiene – it’s clear that most microbes (including germs, bacteria and even viruses) can live on surfaces such as glass, metal and plastic for a long period of time. What is unseen by the naked eyes on mobile phone surfaces does not always reflect the truth that our phones are ‘clean’.

Study 1

14% of children aged 6-13 years have access to a mobile phone which they do not own it. Understandably, sharing a mobile phone amongst your teens and their friends happens during lunch breaks or play time.

Why is this an issue?

The hygiene and health levels of a phone owner is unknown to one other. As your teen shares mobile phone with others, it can potentially get contaminated by their friend(s).

Study 2

Pathogenic microbes such as Staphylococcus aureus, E. faecalis (and others) are commonly detected on mobile phone surfaces of high school students.

These microbes can spread infectious diseases amongst students and beyond school communities. Yes, this is serious and to stop the spread, maintaining good phone hygiene is crucial.

Study 3

Hands and mobile phones are great carriers for infectious microbes such as Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Bacillus cereus, Micrococcus spp., E. Coli. and more.

The research suggested these microbes are resistant to antibiotics.

Hence, it’s crucial that your teens should practise proper hand hygiene and disinfect their mobile phones as frequent as washing hands.

What Matters More: Cleaning or Disinfecting?

If your teens can’t handle extra tasks, what matters more: to clean or to disinfect their mobile phones?

Let’s dive in.

The Perils of Cleaning

It’s only natural for us to want a spotless touchscreen mobile phone.

We can easily wipe it – Left to right, top to bottom, front to back till the phone screen becomes spotless. But then, half of the effort gets wasted by wiping the phone.

What does this mean? I’ll explain to you.

As you wipe, cross contamination starts to take place from one small corner to another corner of the phone.

So, don’t strive for a finger-print-free phone!

Forget About Tradition

Traditionally, you believe that wiping phone regularly with wet wipes is what matters most to keep germs at bay. Let’s scrap that for a second.

Say.

Your teens continue to use wet wipes loaded with chemicals or disinfectant sprays to disinfect their phones. However, you need to know the spray must at least be of 70% alcohol concentration to be effective. At this point, hand gloves become a minimum hand protection needed.

Just imagine if this is done on a routine basis – would this still seem to be worth the time or practical?

What if…

Instead of making phone disinfection so complicating, let’s take a closer look at a scientifically proven device that uses ZERO chemical but delivers a more reliable and consistent disinfection result – UVC CleanPhone. The secret recipe – UVC light at 253.7nm wavelength which can effectively destruct the DNA/ RNA chains of bacteria, viruses.

UVC CleanPhone disinfects > 99.9% consistently. Take a look at the outcomes of a lab challenge we shared in our blog post, UVC CleanPhone: A Naked Truth.

With UVC CleanPhone, phone disinfection is made easy. All you need to do,

✅ Pop the phone into device

✅ Disinfect for 6 minutes

✅ (Can) Immediately use the phone after disinfection

✅ Phone is free from chemicals

✅ Consistent disinfection result irregardless of phone sizes

UVC CleanPhone requires very minimal effort from your teens to start picking up this new habit for phone disinfection with no resistance.

Let’s not be afraid. UVC light disinfection is an established and widely used technology for centuries in medical, water treatment applications, and more. It is safe and effective.

The More Disinfection. The More Deactivation.

Notice I didn’t say ‘kill’?

Here is how the science-backed disinfection method works:

UVC light with 253.7nm wavelength is germicidal because it inactivates microbes by destructing the DNA/ RNA chains. This way, phone gets instant disinfection results when the moment disinfection process is complete within UVC CleanPhone.

So remember this.

As your teens start disinfecting their phones regularly with UVC CleanPhone, it is truthful that their phones are ‘clean’ even for the unseen by our naked eyes.

Final Thoughts

When it comes to using UVC light to disinfect your phone, one is quick to assume UVC light can be harmful to our teens as they get exposed to the light.

This is an invalid assumption – Whenever the case cover of UVC CleanPhone is ajar, UVC light gets shut off automatically. This interrupts the disinfection process instantly to ensure no UVC light is exposed to its users whom might want to retrieve the phone to answer calls while disinfection mode is still on.

At any point of time, your teens can immediately resume the disinfection process simply by placing the phones in UVC CleanPhone and closing the case cover next.

Do you think UVC light phone disinfection might work for your teens?

Share your thoughts with us in comment.

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Make UVC Disinfection Work For You; Ditch Chemical Wipes

Develop a good habit by disinfecting your phone with UVC CleanPhone from De CleanRoom

We are so inseparable from our smart gadgets and they all share a common characteristic – always in close contact or proximity to our hands, face, ears, nose and even our lips! The fact is their surfaces are contaminated but just because nothing is seen by our naked eyes, we thought they are ‘clean’. Essentially, these surfaces are filled with microbes/ bacteria since they get ‘hooked’ on these surfaces easily as they are touched. More often than not, these surfaces have become common infection gateways for mild to chronic spreadable diseases.

Realised germs and bacteria hooked on surfaces easily

5 Reasons Why Gadgets could be the Sources of Microbial Contaminations:

Inadequate hand hygiene.
Surfaces not disinfected.
Using phone/ gadgets in toilet.
Trapped sweat.
Ear wax.

The Good and Bad News

The bad news is that wiping and cleaning your gadgets alone do not destroy microbes/ bacteria on the surfaces of your gadgets. This action makes things worst since it causes cross-contamination from one surface to another as you wipe.

The good news is that an option is readily available which not only kills microbes/ bacteria up to 99.9% but also is beneficial to our mother nature – a chemical free disinfection method.

Meeting UVC CleanPhone Trio

Thrice the gadgets, dual-functions and one device – UVC CleanPhone Trio uses germicidal effect of UVC light to kill microbes/ bacteria effectively and precisely. With 3 well-defined compartments, it is a great option to disinfect all your Apple gadgets (Apple-phone, Apple-watch, AirPod) simultaneously. It delivers >99.9% disinfection* in 3 minutes. Besides, you can also charge all your gadgets whilst disinfecting – killing two birds with one stone.

UVC CleanPhone Trio is fully concealed when you activate the disinfection mode, leaving you with ZERO UVC light exposure risk.

* UVC CleanPhone Trio is testified in NATA Accredited Australian Labs to disinfect >99.9%. Learn more.

How UVC Light Disinfection Works

UVC CleanPhone Trio is fitted with germicidal UVC light bulb (With an estimated 6,500 hours of lifespan) and emits 253.7nm UVC light when the disinfection mode is activated. This UVC wavelength is lethal since it destructs the links in DNA/ RNA chains of microbes/ bacteria and the entire process occurs rapidly.

UVC CleanPhone Trio disinfects all 3 gadgets within 3 minutes and it shuts off automatically when a disinfection cycle completes. It’s a fantastic, sustainable and chemical-free alternative to wet chemical wipes to disinfect your gadgets.

Visit De CleanRoom and find out more today.

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Why Cleaning Is Essential For A Complete Disinfection Process?

Today, we’re all living in a world that’s different from the one that was 10 months ago. Maintaining a good personal hygiene has become a more essential task than ever.

The surfaces that bacteria and nasty microbes like better than human skin are plastic and glass – Hey! Your smartphone, earphone, smart watch and other electronic gadgets that you use daily can harbor these microbes easily. We need to clean more often now than before to stay healthy but cleaning alone is not enough. A better approach is to clean and followed by a disinfection process.

How can I tell the difference between cleaning and disinfecting?

Cleaning is a process merely to remove dirt, dust or debris from surfaces.

When it comes to disinfecting, more precautions are needed since it’s an approach used to reduce or inactivate microbes from surfaces (or even in the air) to stop the spread of undesirous transmissions.

What are the methods of disinfection?

Conventionally, chemical disinfectants are widely used for disinfections. Most chemical disinfectants claim to achieve 99.9% disinfection. However, there are inherent health hazards with the use of these chemicals besides pollutions (eg. water way) that it brings.

By late 19 century, scientists discovered the germicidal effect of UVC light (Ultraviolet-C). With the progress in technology, UVC light disinfection became more mature and was popularised. It is now widely used in various applications including medical field to disinfect airway and surfaces in hospitals, potable water treatment, food industry and much more since UVC is proven effective in inactivating nasty mircobes within a short duration. Its reach is precise, leaves no chemical residues nor odor (Just to name a few of its incredible benefits).

This technology has been around for more than a CENTURY and PROVEN effective scientifically.
Safe. Fast. Precise.

So, what’s the best way to disinfect today?

Definitely UVC light disinfection! Briefly, UVC light disinfection uses short UVC wavelengths between 200nm and 280nm (of light spectrum) to destruct the DNA/ RNA chains of viruses and bacteria. It is important to note that most UVC light disinfection products offer 253.7nm wavelength but the optimum UVC disinfection wavelength is actually 265nm.

How will you know if you need to clean before disinfecting?

When a surface is oily, dusty and dirty, you need to wipe the surface before disinfecting with UVC light to achieve the best result. One must bear in mind that genuine UVC light disinfection products promise 99.9% disinfection. It, however, does not produce a shiny or sparkling surface since this can only be done through wiping.

Remove dust or oily surface before disinfection is important to achieve best UVC light disinfection outcomes

Where can I purchase a reputable UVC light disinfection?

De CleanRoom! All our products are manufactured in compliance to RoHS, CE, FCC Standards whilst the products are also lab-tested in NATA accredited Australian Labs and certified to deliver up to 99.9% disinfection. De CleanRoom places utmost priority in product safety and efficacy to ensure you don’t have a false security in using our UVC disinfection tools.

Start disinfecting the right and easy way with De CleanRoom.

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A Fresh Way To Disinfect Your Wearable Gadgets

UVC light phone disinfection delivers 99.9% disinfection efficiency

We are so excited to share our new collection of phone disinfection series – CleanPhone and CleanPhone Trio.

And, we recently brought this collection of phone disinfection tools to a Brisbane microbiology laboratory to testify the effectiveness claims and the results were astonishing! Instantly, we were reassured these disinfection phone boxes are once again backed up by facts and figures that UVC light disinfection is the way to go for a better, faster and safer approach than the eco-damaging chemicals and wet wipes for your disinfection needs.

Conventionally, most people are taught to clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces with chemicals, wet wipes and also alcohol. Deep down, we are aware of the side effects of these chemicals on us both internally and externally. However, we continue to rely on this method of disinfection simply there is no ‘better’ option available. This is NOT true and we do have an alternative – UVC light disinfection. As a matter of fact, UVC light disinfection has existed for nearly a century and been widely used in the medical setting to disinfect surfaces. De CleanRoom phone disinfection series is built to capitalise on UVC germicidal characteristic to disinfect electronic gadgets with UVC light safely.

In order to assure our phone disinfection series can be used with a peace of mind that it can disinfect your smartphones, smart watches and airpods reliably and effectively as it should, we lab tested them in a NATA accredited microbiology lab to testify our efficacy claims of 99.9% disinfection against 2 types of microorganisms that pose serious health consequence – E. Coli and Staph. Aureus. The outcomes from these lab tests were a 100% win since none of these bacteria had survived post UVC exposure from within CleanPhone and CleanPhone Trio. De CleanRoom’s UVC phone disinfection series had totally eliminated the bacteria based on this lab test results.

CleanPhone and CleanPhone Trio zapped off E. Coli and Staph. Aureus 100%

This supported our claims that both CleanPhone and CleanPhone Trio can completely replace the old practice to clean and disinfect your phone surfaces with chemicals and wet wipes. It is proven as an effective and fuss-free disinfection approach for a 21st century living.

De CleanRoom phone disinfection series is aimed to create a better and smarter option to disinfect your daily electronic wearables – smartphone, smart watch and airpod without the needs of using chemicals. Our phone disinfection tools are designed to compliment modern living with a sleek and handy outlook. In addition, CleanPhone Trio is a complete game-changer that allows simultaneous disinfection and charging, achieving many tasks within a single device.

Utilising UVC phone disinfection technology to clean your phone and all other electronic gadgets is simply the way to go. Cultivate this new habit today.

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What’s Going On In The World Of UVC Disinfection?

A near century old technology is getting its moment to revive. Here is a rundown of how 5 different industries are reviving UVC light disinfection to get people back to work, travel, shop and dine safely.

Airlines

Airlines are leading ways to keep aircrafts clean and disinfected as part of the efforts to ensure passengers safety in order to win back passenger confidence.

jetBlue, a US-based carrier, was the first airline started using UVC light as a disinfection means in July 2020. The airline claimed a single-aisle aircraft can be safely disinfected within 10-minutes.

Qatar Airways, the second airline that put an ultraviolet light (UVC) disinfection trolley in action, providing an extra layer of protection against Covid-19.

Aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, has also developed a mobile wand which uses UVC light to disinfect flight deck control panels where chemical liquid disinfectant can’t be used.

Restaurant

Marlaina, a Mediterranean Restaurant in the US, had a hand-chalked sign at the restaurant entrance proudly announcing to diners “Coronavirus Disinfected Here!” He managed to install an upper-room low-dose UVC light while the restaurant was closed during city-wide lockdown. His customer, Bruce Davidson, a Pulmonary Physician had inspired him for this – When U.S. was attacked by a new tuberculosis (TB) outbreak decades ago with no drugs nor vaccines available, transmission prevention was the most important step taken and UVC light proved to be a key strategy back then, recalled Davidson.

Greater Boston Food Bank

The Greater Boston Food Bank planned to use robots that radiate UVC light to disinfect its warehouses and shipping areas during night time cleaning routines.

Hospitals

Researchers in British Columbia started a test on smart devices which were disinfected with UVC light twice daily at three hospitals. They found a radical reduction of bacteria growing on the devices after UVC disinfection. After the test, the volunteers found UVC disinfection is simple to use but found it hard to remember to use them twice daily.

Shopping malls

Shopping malls in Singapore adopted the use of UVC robots to disinfect surfaces or any hard-to-reach crevices and air. For public safety reason, these robots are only operated after the malls are closed for business. The robots have artificial intelligence (AI) built in where UVC systems can shut off upon human detection in close proximity.

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HOW “SPOT DISINFECTION” PREVENTS SICKNESS IN YOUR HOME?

Spot disinfection helps to maintain a healthy home and reduce chores

WHY IS IT UNNECESSARY TO DISINFECT THE ENTIRE HOUSE?

Disinfection is NOT about cleaning or picking up dirt and dust. It is a more thorough process which delivers a ‘cleaner’ environment beyond what our naked eyes can see. This process begins with some basic cleaning and ends with deactivating nasty microbes that could live up to an extended period on surfaces like tables, keys, phones, doorknobs, faucets, toilet flush, walls, switches and even on the floor! It is well understood that these surfaces can be the places where you’re likely to get infected by disease-carried microbes.

When a family member becomes sick, basic cleaning alone in those areas does NOT get rid of the harmful microbes but DISINFECTION does. The good news is that you don’t have to necessarily disinfect the entire home but only on the highly touched surfaces or any soiled areas suspicious to cause the infection.

This is what we call it the SPOT DISINFECTION.

HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU SPOT DISINFECT?

There’s NO hard-and-fast rule to how often you should spot disinfect an area in your home since you might have your general cleaning routine in place. However, all you need to remember is that spot disinfection is all about reducing the risks of infectious transmission. In a different term, the need for spot disinfection can also be much driven by what’s going on in your home. For instance, when a family member is down with flu or cough, it would be a cue for the needs to start spot disinfection on those commonly touched surfaces to prevent the spread of illnesses among family members. At that point of time, you might need to repeat the spot disinfection process more often.

WHAT TOOL SHOULD YOU CARRY IN YOUR CLEANING CADDY?

As the only thing that microorganisms do in life is to replicate their colonies, UVC light is incredible at killing germs, bacteria and pathogens with its germicidal action, can effectively destruct the links in DNA and RNA chains of these microbes. This results in them to become sterile, avoiding their growth and proliferation. UVC light disinfection is effective in inactivating these microorganisms.

The good news, there is an effective, safe and handy method to spot disinfect at home (and anywhere). CleanWand, an UVC disinfection wand, is a TRUE UVC disinfection tool that can easily SPOT DISINFECT all highly suspicious and common-touched points at home (and anywhere).

As you start and continue to implement this new practice in your cleaning regimen, you can effectively prevent or minimize the potential spread of illnesses in your home. Act on it now.

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Smelly Shoes Leave More Than Just Bad Odour on Your Teens

UVC disinfection heals smelly feet and removes shoes odour

Where some teens don’t really bother about their smelly feet and shoes, others are extremely concerned by the horrible smell whenever they take off their shoes. This embarrassment isn’t all bad. In fact, it can be a new beginning for your teen kids to start looking and be responsible for their personal feet hygiene.

If you’re a teen mom having teens who are embarrassed by their foot odour and low self confidence, here are two areas you can help them get rid of that stench smell and uplift their confidence in return:‍

Take extra time to care for their feet

Simply rinsing their feet just for the sake of cleaning may immediately ‘control’ the bad odour initially but does not actually remove it. As they dry up their feet, the smell starts oozing again. Instead, you should get them into building a good habit to wash with antibacterial soap and dry it up properly every time they take off their shoes.

Also, encourage them to change their socks daily and air dry the socks if they aren’t washed within the same day to avoid rotten-cheese smell developing in the laundry room. You can take it up a notch higher by providing them with cotton socks since this type of socks is more breathable and therefore does not retain sweat. This keeps their feet dry. Besides, your teens are undergoing hormonal changes and tend to sweat more since their sweat glands are more active than ever. As sweat is built up inside their shoes, it creates a perfect environment for bacteria to grow and produce foul odour consequently.

‍‍Keep Shoe Dry

The whole point in preventing and getting rid of smelly feet is to keep their feet and shoes dry. Options like drying their shoes under the sun, air drying for over 24 hours, having extra pairs of trainers, plus regular washing and drying the trainers are the conventional methods in getting rid of shoes odour.

However, your teens may probably procrastinate or won’t have time to repeat these tasks every time they come back from school or post-school activities. And, you wouldn’t want to keep nagging them into doing all these, right? That’s OK.

You’d probably have more luck now with UVC CleanShoe. Yes, you read it right and it’s safe and simple. This super-cool looking disinfection tool behaves like the sun and is powerful. It not only dries the shoes internally but also disinfects all the hard-to-reach areas including the front part of the shoes that ‘collects’ most sweat, with germicidal UVC light. This is crucial in getting rid of the stench smell both in their shoes and their feet as UVC light kills bacteria bred inside the shoes as a result of sweat induced dampness.

All your teens need to do is to stash this disinfection tool inside their shoes for a minimum of 15 minutes to let it do its job. It automatically switches off as the timer lapses. ‍How easy does this sound to you?

UVC light doesn’t have to be intimidating. In fact, due to UVC technology advancement in recent years, more of similar tools are produced and made available in the market continuously. There is no better time than now to take the advantage in saving time whilst achieving great outcomes at the same time.

Though there are plenty of ways to address smelly shoes and no matter what method you choose, it is important to make your teen kids realised they are doing it not to please you but to learn to be more responsible in preparation to adulthood.

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5 BAD ADVICES THAT “EXPERTS” GIVE TO DEEP CLEAN YOUR PHONE

You might be doing the WRONG things to keep your phone clean.

“I heard an expert says XYZ…”

“My Facebook community says XYZ…”

“I received viral messages on TikTok say XYZ…”

Most of us don’t have the time to further research on information that is thrown to us and resort to believe immediately.

I will list out 5 wrong advices that “experts” give to deep clean your phone.

ADVICE 1

“Experts” say:

Mix 70% v/v Isopropyl alcohol with water – half and half, and wipe.

Why it’s NOT true

We should only use Isopropyl alcohol as a short term win. As you clean your phone, constant inhaling of this alcohol can also cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, nose irritations, throat irritations, and even breathing difficulty. In a longer term, it might cause poisoning when your liver can no longer manage the amount of Isopropyl alcohol in the body.

ADVICE 2

“Experts” say:

Spray high alcohol content liquid (70% w/w) on a microfibre cloth and wipe your phone.

Why it’s NOT true

Alcohol and phone is a big NO! James LeBeau, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said alcohol can strip your phone screen off its oleophobic (oil-repellant) and hydrophobic (water-repellent) coatings.

ADVICE 3

“Experts” say:

Wipe down the entire phone, front and back.

Why it’s NOT true

As you wipe, you are moving microorganisms from one spot to another spot of the phone. Cross-contamination happens from front to back!

ADVICE 4

“Experts” say:

Use a dry cotton bud to clean small, fiddly areas.

Why it’s NOT true

While cross-contamination happens from one small area to another area, plastic cotton bud adds load to waste management. According to Sustainability Victoria, each day in Australia, 250 marine animals and over 2,700 seabirds are choked to death on plastic cotton buds.

ADVICE 5

“Experts” say:

Allow the phone to air dry for at least 15 minutes before reinserting it into its case.

Why it’s NOT true

Will you really wait for your phone to air dry before reattaching its case? What happens is you most likely wouldn’t bother to wait and fix the casing while your phone is still damp. Now, it is making things worse. Dampness provokes bacteria growth!

UV-C light disinfection is a safe, cost-effective and reliable alternative to alcohol clean. Also, it produces NO chemical residual or by-product that’s harmful to your health and the environment.

Essentially, the quest in correctly and efficiently operating a UV-C disinfection tool lies on the understanding on how a tool works and exercising good practice in using the tool. Find out more The Good Practice.

However way we choose to clean our phone really depends on ourselves. Choose the best option that is both good to the health of your phone and yourself.

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TO PEOPLE WHO USE CHEMICAL TO DISINFECT — BUT DON’T KNOW THE SIDE EFFECTS

Cleaning and disinfecting – the two mantras in our home today.

You have started a new habit to clean and start re-organizing your home. You wanted to make your home a happy and healthy place for your loved ones. You fantasized about a germ-free home and home-office. Germ-free mobile phones. Germ-free smartwatches. Germ-free headphones. Germ-free kitchen top. Germ-free remote controls. What else?

Let me present some statistics in reality from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a national public health institute in the United States experienced in conducting critical science and providing health information to protect fellow Americans.

More calls are related to exposure to home cleaning chemicals and disinfectant

I was astonished with the increased statistics they presented on calls received by poison control centers related to poisonous exposure to home cleaning chemical and liquid disinfectants.

Eyes are the easiest route

Our eyes are highly sensitive to chemicals. Even a short exposure can cause severe effects to our eyes since chemicals can be absorbed through eyes and transported to other parts of the body resulting in harmful effects.

Bleaches are the main cause of chemical poisoning

You can tell that this statistic reveals the reality of our daily disinfecting habit is actually hurting our health, our loved ones and even our pets! We tried our best to keep everyone safe, but it turned out NOT the way it was meant to be.

It’s no brainer that kids are the most susceptible age group

Here is why: Lead Researcher Tim Takaro, a physician-scientist in the faculty of health sciences at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia claims that 0 – 5 years old spend 80% – 90% of their time indoors, and are vulnerable to chemical exposures through the lungs and skin since they are in regular contacts with household surfaces.

It’s difficult to try to make a decision which disinfectant should be written off from your cleaning checklist while trying to digest these alarming statistics!

As parts of our lives begin to slowly open back up after we closed the door more than 100 days ago, we need to re-evaluate our previous practices in disinfecting our home with chemicals.

DON’T BRING HOME MORE GERMS
LIKE IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL.
AND,
DON’T STOP DISINFECTING!

If you’re worried about using chemicals to disinfect your home, consider other alternative like CleanAir Pro, a device that uses UV-C light to disinfect both hard and soft surfaces in any area of your home. It’s easy.

Experience CleanAir Pro with a deeper and wider disinfection through germicidal UV-C light.

You will have a chemical free surface and no more bad odor in any area you disinfect.

Added bonus: You can ‘convert’ this light into a bright ceiling light with 6000 lumens. Find out more.

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Is your lunch bag bacteria-free?

UVC disinfection ensures germ free lunch bag

Did you ever realize the lunch bags that your kids use in school daily are contaminated with thousands, if not millions, of germs and bacteria as due to accidental spillage and prolonged hours of food closure inside these bags?

You may already practise due diligence in cleaning the lunch bags for your kids weekly if not daily. However, did you ever wonder what makes an effective cleaning that minimizes the threats and spreads of food poisoning incidents as due to these germs and bacteria that are not visible to the naked eyes? Whatever method you choose to clean up your lunch bags, you should probably never clean them in the following ways.

Washing Machine

The thermos layer of your lunch bag fabric might get damaged and lost its functionality. Checkout the care instructions first and use your due research skill to confirm if your lunch bag is machine washable?

Chemical Spray

Regular exposure to cleaning chemicals can lead to respiratory symptoms because it leaves behind chemical residues on the lunch bag surface. So, NO.

Baby Wipes

They’re not made for removing bacteria effectively.

Tea Towel or Dish Cloth

Tea towel or dish cloth moves bacteria around the lunch bag. It makes the lunch bags look ‘clean’ on the surface but spreads bacteria from one spot to another.

“Small, light weight and portable disinfector that combines ultraviolet quartz tube with 254nm UV-C light and ozone to reach every nook and corner that needs disinfection”
de cleanroom

Introducing De CleanRoom Active-go portable UV-C disinfector.

It combines ultraviolet quartz tube that emits UV-C light (Wavelength @ 254nm) and ozone to reach every nook and corner of a small storage area that needs disinfection. This UV-C disinfector is made lightweight and compact. Just place Active-go in any pouches and turn it on for 10 minutes to allow UV-C light to do its disinfecting duty. It is a simple yet effective way to clean and disinfect your lunch bags conveniently.

You can also use this Active-go UV-C disinfector to disinfect other daily active pouches such as gym or soccer bag, tennis bag and even school bags, just to name a few.

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UV-C Light Disinfection Good Practice

Implement good practice in using UVC disinfection tool to reduce operating risks

Cleaning without direct contact with the surfaces we want to clean? YES! UV-C LIGHT GERMICIDAL process! It ‘cleans’ with no direct contact on any surface nor device. Result? It leaves behind no residues and the disinfected surfaces can be used almost immediately.

However, UV-C light disinfection is also known to contribute to health hazards if used incorrectly since UV-C light can penetrate our skin and cornea.

A short term direct exposure to UV-C light can result in temporary skin irritation (redness) and eye damage (cornea and conjunctiva injury or better known as ultraviolet keratitis) but shall heal after a few days. For longer term exposures, it risks developing premature skin aging and even skin cancer; whilst eye damage can be irreversible – cataracts.

Looking at the hazards, please realize that UV-C light intensity from point sources falls off exponentially as it gets past scattering path in air. So, keeping a certain radius is a safe practice when open source UV light is on disinfection mode.

Would I still buy any UV-C disinfection tool if hazard is NOT an issue? YES! UV-C light exposure is greatly reduced through product safety designs implementation (Eg. CleanPhone disinfector with enclosure). Some products incorporated safety switches that allow UV-C sources to be turned off whilst it senses external motion (Eg. CleanToothbrush disinfector with PIR motion sensor). Other designs have built-in timers with options having the ON/ OFF switches for UV-C light sources separated from general lighting.

However, it is important to develop a good habit to always read and understand the User Manual and recommendations for a proper application of any UV-C products before use.

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Your Toothbrush: Make! You! Sick!

Germs and bacteria breed on toothbrush and it's important to disinfect toothbrush

“Improve your toothbrush hygiene, then your oral health improves”.

To achieve better oral health, think of an alternative method to deeply clean your toothbrush differently. Using a UVC toothbrush disinfection tool is considered as an extremely basic need. But be sure to pick the right one!

Why should we disinfect our toothbrushes?
Think of this:

The fact is, millions of germs grow and incubate in our toothbrush daily. Researchers found out flu virus, staph bacteria, E. coli, yeast fungus and strep virus ‘like’ hanging out on our toothbrushes.

What are the nutrients for bacteria to thrive on toothbrushes?

Two nutrient-packed conditions for bacteria to thrive are the food particles that cling to the bristles and moisture on the toothbrush.

When we dutifully brush our teeth, these germs from our mouth are gargled down to the drain when we are done brushing. Surprisingly, a significant amount of germs is trapped on the toothbrush. These germs can SURVIVE and MULTIPLY in numbers even after days of use!

The germ problem lies in how and where we store our toothbrushes. In most households, we use a cup to hold toothbrushes for the entire family. This transfers bacteria incubated on one toothbrush to another toothbrush through close contact. Also, bathrooms, as being moist and steamy most time are the perfect spot for germs to grow.

The bottom line: Toothbrush is always at high risk for incubating germs.

We need to reshape our mindset and start disinfecting our toothbrushes!

Toothbrush disinfection is typically achieved by UVC light that can kill germs and bacteria ranging from the not-so-serious to those that can make you ill.

CleanToothbrush from De CleanRoom uses UVC light to kill germs and bacteria lurking on the bristle up to 99.9%. 10 minutes is all you need for all the wonderful things to happen.

Our product is also incorporated with solar technology and it just means there is no trouble in searching for a power socket to activate its UVC light disinfection function on your toothbrushes. All you need to do is to ensure the device is placed at a spot that receives maximum sunlight or indoor lighting.

In addition, the built-in advanced infrared sensor triggers the UVC light disinfection function to halt as you open the lid whilst disinfection is on-going. This prevents you from UVC exposure.

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Finally: Clear Division of Sanitizing, Disinfecting & Sterilizing I can Actually Understand

Clear division of sanitisation, sterelisation, disinfection

Essentially, there are differences amongst the terms ‘Sanitizing’, ‘Disinfecting’ & ‘Sterilizing’. Let’s break it down in the following way and you shall see why we can’t use them interchangeably:

Sanitization (Cleaning) – Refers to a process of dirt, dust or debris removal from surfaces.

Disinfection – This is a method used to reduce or inactivate germs, bacteria and pathogenic microorganisms from surfaces to stop transmittable infections.

Sterilization – This involves quick killing of most forms of bacteria, fungi and viruses present on surfaces.

Whilst sanitization is mainly regarded to general cleaning that we do every single day, both disinfection and sterilization are microbiological decontamination processes. Sterilization provides the highest level of a cleaning state.

Define your cleaning objective(s) and decide what is best in your situation.

Have your phone disinfected and protected from germs and bacteria for just 6 minutes per phone.

New technology leaves your phone 99.9% disinfected and ready to use in 6 minutes… or you don’t pay.

IT’S TRUE! You can have one phone or other items like pen, badges, key, credit cards disinfected for only 6 minutes. No chemicals! No wastage! No touching!

De CleanRoom is the UVC light phone disinfection provider in Australia. They are introducing their advanced new disinfection system. The UVC CleanPhone disinfects fast and effectively and leaves your phone 99.9% disinfected and ready to use in 6 minutes.

Since the dawn of cleaning, the method used to clean phones has been to spray disinfectant or wipe with wet wipes that make your phone wet and loaded with chemicals.

There’s no doubt this time-consuming and chemical loaded disinfection is effective. But it leaves your phone wet and has chemical residual.

Do you think it’s a nuisance to tolerate more chemicals into our daily life?

Especially at this time when disinfecting hands with alcohol wipes are so common that you get dried and irritated skins. You don’t want to do the same to your phone and also hate the idea of using more wet wipes on your phone just to clean it.

This new UVC CleanPhone really works!

Here’s how it works:A wavelength of 265nm UV -known to be incredible at killing germs, bacteria and pathogens- shines out UVC light onto the phone surface.

It rapidly deactivates all germs and bacteria on the surface of the phone. This deactivation means the DNA of the germs and bacteria is destroyed so they could not multiply and do not stay on the phone.

That’s the secret. The UVC light deactivates all microbes in small or large amounts. You’ll be surprised at how much of the colony the light deactivates after 6 minutes disinfection!

This UVC light disinfection is becoming so popular in medical facilities, aged care, public areas and also in schools to disinfection their environment.

For this same reason, UVC CleanPhone adopts the same technology to disinfect smaller items and daily electronic wearable gadgets like your smartwatches, AirPods and phones.

De CleanRoom guarantee to you is simple.

If for any reason you are not delighted with the effectiveness of the disinfection, tell us the same day or the next day, and we will give you a 100% refund. No question asked!