VERMILLION, Ohio — A Vermilion soap company is helping people fight the coronavirus with their special disinfectant.
“Anything that fights corona is just going through the roof right now,” said Guy Sako, owner of Defense Soap.
- 1 container makes 50 gallons
- Disinfects surfaces
- EPA-approved
Guy Sako is the owner of Defense Soap in Vermilion. His company has been very busy selling and shipping these special disinfectant tablets that have been approved by the EPA to clean the virus from surfaces.
"It’s a little SweeTart-sized tablet you drop into a quart of water, it becomes effervescent, then it’s hypochlorous acid, and it can be used to bring your house or facility to hospital-grade disinfectant,” said Sako.
Sako is a former Cleveland Police officer and is also a wrestling coach. 15 years ago he started his soap company to make sure his wrestlers were not getting any diseases.
“We use hypochlorous acid to clean wrestling mats, wrestling mats have MRSA, herpes impetigo, ringworm on them, so we use the hypochlorous acid to disinfect wrestling mats,” said Sako.
Defense Soap is cleaning up — and selling out. Their summer inventory for the disinfectant tablets is almost gone. However, they are waiting on a new supply.
“We are doing our best to keep it in house, we are doing a lot of first responders, and are helping them out as much as possible and are actually limiting our customers to one canister a piece, but one canister makes 50 gallons, so they should be fine with that,” said Sako.