Floor disinfectant concentrate(Pine)
A floor that looks clean is not enough. This one actually is.
Highlights
- Pine Oil 5% w/w — phenolic disinfection with a century of proven institutional deployment — effective against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria at standard dilution.
- pH 8–10 — alkaline formulation remains potent in hard water conditions across Indian municipal supplies where TDS routinely exceeds 500 ppm.
- 25 ml / 45 ml dilution system — a single concentrate serves both routine daily cleaning and post-incident heavy-soil protocols without changing product.
- No rinsing required — reduces cleaning cycle time by 20–30% in high-frequency institutional mopping schedules.
- Bilingual label — English and Hindi instructions ensure every staff member can execute the correct protocol regardless of literacy level.
Product overview
There is a category of institutional hygiene failure that never appears in inspection reports: the gap between a cleaning protocol on paper and what a rotating housekeeping team actually delivers at the end of a mop. In healthcare wards, industrial washrooms, and educational facilities running multiple cleaning shifts daily, this gap is not an inconvenience. It is an infection risk.
Alle’s ClinX Labs Floor Disinfectant (Pine) was formulated to close that gap at the chemistry level. Built around Pine Oil 5% w/w, a phenolic active with over a century of institutional disinfection history, it delivers consistent germicidal performance that is independent of operator technique, application pressure, or mopping speed. The active does the work. The protocol becomes reliable because the product makes it reliable.
The alkaline pH of 8–10 is not incidental. It ensures that the phenolic active remains in its effective ionisation state in working solution — a critical specification in Indian facilities where hard water mineral content routinely challenges water-diluted disinfectant performance. The classic pine fragrance provides the immediate post-clean olfactory confirmation that the floor has been treated — a signal that matters in environments where occupant confidence in hygiene is itself a measurable outcome.
The chemistry
| How does phenolic disinfection work, and why does pH matter?
Pine oil contains terpenoid phenolic compounds — primarily terpineol and related monoterpenes — that act as broad-spectrum antimicrobials by disrupting the structural integrity of bacterial cell membranes. On contact with bacteria, these phenolic molecules intercalate into the lipid bilayer of the cell wall, causing membrane permeabilisation, leakage of intracellular contents, and cell death. The mechanism is non-specific, making it effective across a broad range of gram-positive and gram-negative organisms. The alkaline pH of 8–10 is critical to maintaining phenolic efficacy in diluted working solution. Phenolic compounds exist in equilibrium between their protonated and deprotonated (phenolate) forms. The deprotonated phenolate form — present at higher pH — has greater membrane-penetrating activity and superior antimicrobial potency. Formulating at pH 8–10 ensures the active is predominantly in its most effective chemical state when delivered to the floor surface. Additionally, the alkaline environment helps counteract the calcium and magnesium ions in hard water that would otherwise bind to phenolic compounds and reduce their availability at the bacterial target site. In facilities supplied with hard municipal water, this pH engineering translates directly into consistent, predictable disinfection outcomes that phenolic formulations at neutral pH cannot guarantee. |
Did you know
Fact Pine oil was one of the first recorded natural disinfectants — used in surgical wards before modern chemistry existed. Joseph Lister’s antiseptic protocols in the 1860s drew on the same phenolic compound family. Your mop bucket is running 160-year-old science that still outperforms half the products launched this decade.
Application & usage
- Preparation Fill a clean mop bucket with the required volume of water. Add concentrate after water to minimise foam.
- Standard dilution 25 ml per litre of water for routine daily cleaning of all floor types in occupied institutional areas.
- Heavy-soil dilution 45 ml per litre for post-incident cleaning, high-traffic zones, or areas with visible soiling.
- Application Apply with standard cotton or microfibre flat mop using overlapping strokes. Ensure complete surface contact.
- Dwell & dry Allow to air-dry naturally. No rinsing required. Replace solution every 2–3 hours or when visibly contaminated.
Usage economy
| One 5-litre concentrate. Two hundred litres of disinfected floor.
At 25 ml per litre, a single 5L pack yields 200 litres of working solution — 40 full mop buckets. For a healthcare facility of 15,000 sq ft mopped twice daily with a standard 5-litre bucket, one pack delivers 20 days of continuous floor disinfection coverage. At 45 ml heavy-soil dilution for post-incident ward cleaning, the same pack covers 111 litres of emergency-grade working solution. Versus equivalent ready-to-use phenolic disinfectants at comparable coverage, the concentrate format reduces per-litre cost by 70–75% and eliminates the storage and disposal burden of 40 individual RTU bottles per equivalent volume. |
Product specifications
| Active ingredient | Pine Oil 5% w/w |
| Active class | Phenolic terpene — broad-spectrum antimicrobial |
| pH | 8.0–10.0 (alkaline) |
| Specific gravity | 1.01–1.03 at 25°C |
| Formulation type | Aqueous concentrate |
| Appearance | Milky white to light amber emulsion |
| Fragrance | Pine — institutional grade |
| Dilution — standard | 25 ml per litre of water (1:40) |
| Dilution — heavy soil | 45 ml per litre of water (1:22) |
| Application | Mop / floor machine |
| Dwell time | No active dwell — allow to air-dry |
| Safe on | Marble, ceramic tile, vinyl, mosaic, concrete, composite flooring |
| Rinse after use | Not required |
| PPE | Gloves recommended for concentrate handling |
| Shelf life | 24 months from date of manufacture, unopened |
| Pack size | 5 Litres concentrate |
| MSDS / TDS | QR code on label · Available on request |
Caution & storage
| For professional and institutional use.
For external use only. Keep out of reach of children. Avoid prolonged or repeated skin contact with concentrate. In case of eye contact, rinse immediately with copious clean water for 15 minutes and seek medical advice. Do not mix with bleach or acid-based cleaners — incompatible combinations may generate harmful vapours. Store in original sealed container below 30°C, away from direct sunlight and heat sources. Do not store near food, feed, or potable water. Keep container tightly closed when not in use. Working solution should be prepared fresh and used within 4 hours. Shelf life 24 months from manufacture date, unopened. |
Resources & documentation
| Material Safety Data Sheet | QR code on product label · Request at care@allesclinx.com |
| Technical Data Sheet (TDS) | Available on request — Alle’s ClinX Labs trade desk |
| Bulk & institutional supply | allesclinx.com · Institutional pricing available |
| B2B & procurement enquiries | procurement@allesclinx.com |
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