Why this detergent earns its place
Washing below 60°C is standard practice for most commercial laundry loads, but it also means bacteria can survive the wash and transfer between garments in the same cycle.
Dettol's Antibacterial Laundry Sanitiser is designed specifically to close that gap — an additive used alongside normal detergent that kills 99.9% of bacteria even at temperatures as low as 20°C, and it's proven to work in rinse cycle temperatures down to 15°C, so it keeps doing its job even on the coolest cycles a commercial machine runs.It's used simply: added to the normal washing routine after the regular detergent, rather than replacing it or requiring any change to how loads are run. That makes it straightforward to fold into an existing laundry process without retraining staff on a new routine or investing in higher wash temperatures that cost more in energy.Beyond the bacteria kill itself, it eliminates odour-causing bacteria specifically, which matters for anything that picks up smells easily through use — staff workwear after a shift, towels, and bedding in guest-facing hospitality settings.
A fresh cotton fragrance is left behind on finished laundry, giving it a genuinely clean scent rather than just the absence of odour.It's suitable across a wide range of commercial laundry: tablecloths, cloth napkins, staff workwear, towels and bedding are all named uses, covering most of what a hotel, restaurant or catering operation puts through the wash regularly. At 3 litres, it's sized to last through a reasonable stretch of regular laundry loads before needing to be topped up.
COSHH: six habits of safe chemical use
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health — the routine every commercial kitchen and cleaning cupboard is expected to run.
SDS
Read the label and the manufacturer’s safety data sheet — the pictograms tell you what you are holding.
Who could be harmed, and how badly? Judge likelihood against severity before anyone opens the cap.
Eliminate or substitute first, engineer and organise next — PPE is the last line, never the first.
Keep the controls working: check ventilation, dosing equipment and storage stay as they should be.
Everyone who uses it knows the hazards, the correct dilution and the PPE — before the first shift, not after.
Products and processes change. Reassess when they do, and keep the record that proves it.
