Talk:Lysol/Archives/2012

Active Ingredient
There are many types of lysol. The most common active ingredient is alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, not dettol. --Karuna8 23:16, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

The ingredients need to be corrected. For example, "ethoxylated alcohol" is not the same as ethyl alcohol/ethanol, the latter of which is listed on the wikipedia page. --sjodenenator 19:45, 29 November 2009 (EST) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.96.2.180 (talk)

Name origin
I find it highly unlikely that the name originates from the combination of "lysosome" and "solvent" given that the lysosome wasn't discovered until the 1940s, and the product Lysol originates from before the 1920s. Any thoughts on the actual origin? Dcteas17 01:08, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I suspect the name derives from Joseph Lister, a strong proponent of asepsis and the inventor of the first commercial antiseptic.

Joe in Australia 10:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps the name comes from the biological term 'lyse' which means to kill a cell by breaking its membrane. Therefore, Lysol is a sound-alike for 'lyse all' and means that the product will kill all germs. The only flaw in this theory of mine is that Lysol works mostly on viruses, I think, which don't have membranes. --Spiff666 15:14, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Lysol was originally a German product, derived from coal tar derivatives (cresols).--SV Resolution(Talk) 13:29, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Other Uses
I find this statement racist, because it discriminates against Native Americans —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brytank01 (talk • contribs) 00:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Many references to use of Lysol as beverage specifically identified the users as Aboriginals or Native Americans. But this Lysol article may not be the place to examine the problem of abuse of non-beverage alcohol by Native Americans suffering from alcoholism. Lysol as beverage is back in the article, with proper references. --SV Resolution(Talk) 12:58, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Verification of their website is needed....
as there no physical address which is supposed to be appearing in the section of Contact us--222.64.215.201 (talk) 12:23, 27 June 2009 (UTC)