Baby-safe cleaning products?

[sholio]

As a non-baby-enabled individual, I have a question for moms.

My cousin is having a baby, and I've been tasked with getting my nephew's old high chair out of storage and cleaning it up for the new baby. It's kind of nasty - they didn't clean it before putting it away, so it's going to need some serious cleaning to be baby-ready. It's made of wood.

My question is this: what's a good baby-safe disinfectant that can be used on wood without damaging it? I'm a minimalist sort of housekeeper (read: lazy); all I ever use in the kitchen to clean things are bleach and baking soda, so I'm not at all familiar with different cleaning products and disinfectants, let alone ones that are safe for small children. I'm also not sure if Pledge and similar sorts of furniture polish can be used on baby furniture, especially an item that is probably going to spend a lot of time in contact with a baby's mouth.

Advice?

Comments

[vecturist.livejournal.com]

Method (www.methodhome.com) makes a couple good wood cleaning products that are environmentally friendly so they should be fairly safe. My sister swears by Clorox's anywhere cleaner for cleaning her floors after the cat coughs up hairballs and it doesn't make the cat sick (apparently certain wood cleaners have). Hope this helps!

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for the link! I'll check it out. :)

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Murphy's Oil soap.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you! I've never used it, but I imagine our local stores would probably have it.

Edited Comment

[shrewreader.livejournal.com]

TSP -- Trisodiumphosphate, which now, naturally, is Trisodiumphosphate free. ETA: You can get it at your hardware store.

You mix it up, it kills -EVERYTHING.-

And then, you rub it down with rubbing alcohol.

After that, hit it with lemon oil (to restore the oil) and -then- the Murphy's.

This message brought to you by the ridiculously paranoid furniture cleaner. :)

Re: Edited Comment

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Oooh! This is *exactly* the information that I need! Because this thing has been sitting around for many months with food stains on it, I definitely want to disinfect the hell out of it; this sounds perfect. Thank you very much!

Re: Edited Comment

[shrewreader.livejournal.com]

Yeah TSP'll do it -- it kills mold & mildew, for crying out loud, I don't think food stains' with months' mileage'll scare it. :)

Good luck!!

[iamrighthere.livejournal.com]

On the ambulance we clean up messes of-ehem-all sorts with a standard formula of one part bleach to ten parts water. Wipe down, rinse--safe for anyone. Trisodiumphosphate cleans well, but it is an acid and is more caustic than bleach. Whichever product you use, just rinse well after cleaning.