Mr. Clean Sponge

[clayr]

I like your cynicism!!!
Sometimes I hate typed words, I was being more sarcastic about knowing people who work there. I do, but that doesn't mean that they developed the product or know 100% about the manufacturing process of an item and I wouldn't take my or there words as fact without doing my own research (until I read your reply I thought I was the king of cynics).
I certainly don't want to be the guy defending this or almost any product, but in the interest of me being right ;-) I have a link to a pdf file that contains the ingredients:
http://www.pgproductsafety.com/produ...r_Original.pdf
It say's ingredient Melamine Polymer and purpose abrasive foam, but please check it out for yourself.
If you find that it doesn't contain anything other than the Melamine Polymer, I can definitely say it would work great for cleaning off steps, or fences around pools. But like I said earlier they do end up shredding and it is very similar to a pencil eraser that is coming apart.

On another note, Thanks for all the info and help you guys provide! This is my first pool and from the get go I have been utilizing your methods with the pool and everything (other than some high PH and TA that I am working on with muriatic acid) everything has been simple, easy and effective!

[PoolDoc]

I like your cynicism!!!

I wish it was cynicism -- the unfortunate fact is, it's experience.

The page you linked is a little short on content. It certainly supports the contention that it's only melamine foam, but it doesn't settle the question. However, using the search function on this page: http://www.pgproductsafety.com/ reveals that there are MULTIPLE flavors of "Mr. Clean Magic Eraser" and that some of them contains scents, and others contain detergents. The detergents would definitely be a problem, and the scents might be one.

To avoid problems, people would need to be VERY careful to get ONLY the "ORIGINAL" product, sort of like our recommendation to get PLAIN big-box store-brand 6% (check the %) bleach!