Our biological products may seen as quite expensive as a one-time remedy for a clogged drain (though cheaper than a plumber’s visit!), but as ongoing maintenance products for preventing clogs, they will be about most inexpensive household product on your shelf.

Household waste water usually only gets our attention when it refuses to leave the premises quickly, due to a blockage of some kind.  These types of events can range from a  mere inconvenience to a mini-crisis that forces us to grudgingly spend time, energy and money to resolve. However, with a little effort at routine maintenance, you can head off these situations and the “yuck” factor  brought on by backed up pipes filled with smelly remains of food and human debris.

If you think about it, the so-called “p” traps or u-joints through which drain water flows, and sits when not being used, are really like  miniature septic holding tanks. Their purpose is to prevent blow back of gases and waste into your house, but they also act as repositories for a certain amount of waste that never moves on down the line. In kitchen lines, including disposal tanks and dishwasher outflows, fats, oils and grease will take hold, and even if you rarely develop a major blockage, think about how this build-up festers there, out of sight, but nonetheless forming a  breeding ground for odor, certain types of insect larvae, and even pathogens that may adhere to the waste and multiply resulting in more frequent colds and flu.

In our bathroom sinks, showers, and tubs, it is not food waste but soap residue that builds up- which in turn traps hair along with dead skin cells and whatever else is coming off of our bodies when we wash up.

So in the same way that nutritional probiotics are recommended for maintaining healthy digestion in your body, (by supplementing natural bacteria) think of natural biological drain cleaners as providing microscopic cleaning helpers ready to go to work on your behalf. The non-pathogenic microbes used are cultivated specifically to breakdown the types of organic waste from food and our bodies that accumulate just below the drain. If you have a septic tank at the end of the line, all the more reason to supplement nature’s own process.