I use the sun oxygen cleaner and think it works just about as good as oxiclean. Especially considering the price difference sun is a better choice. The oxiclean brand seems to work a little faster on some cleaning jobs, I wouldn't say it cleans any better though. The cheaper sun is good for most everything on its own, including removing bottle labels. If I need some extra cleaning power or just want to quicken things up for a shorter soak to clean bottles (say an hour or two rather than overnight) I use TSP Substitute Cleaner (such as red devil TSP/90 = Sodium Metasilicate, Pentahydrate) mixed with the sun oxygen cleaner. I use 70% sun oxy with 30% TSP Substitute.
The sodium metasilicate I get from Menards is Sunnyside Phosphate-Free TSP Substitute Cleaner. A thought I have about the 50/50 mix suggested to make the "home made" version on PBW, info from Five Star msds sheet says it is 30% Sodium Metasilicate, so while 50/50 mix might work great 70/30 makes more since if you're goal is to re-create PBW the best you can do is mix a 96oz tub of the Sun Oxygen Cleaner with 41.16oz of TSP/90. PBW has some other things in to also, but the 70%, 30% mix works well and quickly on all jobs I've had. Most of the TSP sub cleaners I've seen have some sort of do not use on glass statement on the label. If some of you haven't had problems with it in a 50/50 mix still might be ok, but be aware using too much of the TSP for bottles or glass carboys might cause problems.
Just to avoid a bit of misinformation we'll always find on forums....
Earlier post list sun ingredients as sodium bicarbonate and sodium percarbonate and that it and oxiclean are the same thing. They are not really the same, looking at ingredients the oxiclean should be closer to PBW than the sun if you're not wanting to bother mixing anything.
Ingredients of Sun Oxygen Cleaner are Sodium Carbonate and Sodium Carbonate Peroxide.
Ingredients Disclosure for OxiClean Versatile Stain Remover and OxiClean Versatile Stain Remover Free is
Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Percarbonate, C12-15 Alcohol Ethoxylate, Sodium Metasilicate, Acrylic Acid Homopolymer, Fragrance* and Colorant*, (*last two are not in OxiClean free) Another side note; OxiClean Baby list same ingredients as the sun cleaner.
Not that it really matters I guess, I don't know the differences in these chemicals they sound very similar. There may or may not be a different oxygen type cleaner that list sodium bicarbonate and sodium percarbonate as the ingredients. I somewhat re-call reading that Sodium Precarbonate is just another term for the same chemical as Sodium Carbonate Peroxide or maybe I made that up. Just a point I wanted to share that it is best everyone do their own research to make your own choices and just use these threads as a guide in what you're looking for. In particular for this subject msds sheets and ingredient disclosure list are easy to get with a quick google search and you can see what the differences are in the brand names and some of the similar off-brands.