**EXHIBIT 10-3**

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**The Clorox  Company**

**1993  Directors'  Stock Option  Plan**

**Non-Qualified  Stock Option**

**Series                                                                                                                   Shares    **

                     

**THIS  OPTION  IS  NOT ASSIGNABLE**

**TheClorox Company, a Delaware Corporation with its principal office inOakland, California, hereby grants to the Optionee named below anoption to purchase, in accordance with and subject to the terms andrestrictions of The Clorox Company 1993 Directors' Stock OptionPlan and of this Option, the number of shares of Common Stock ofThe Clorox Company at the price set forth herein, asfollows:**

**OPTIONEE:**                     **                                                                                  **

# **NUMBEROF SHARES ON WHICH OPTION ISGRANTED:      **

# **OPTIONPRICE PERSHARE:                                                                       **

# **DATE OFGRANT:                                                                                           **

# **EXPIRATION OF OPTION:                                                        **

            

**OPTIONEXERCISABLE ASFOLLOWS:                                                   50% of shares may be purchased on [first anniversary of grant date]and 50% on [second anniversary of the grantdate].                                                                                                                                           50% on or after the same date in 2001.**

**In caseof termination of service or death, see Section 5(g) and (h) of thePlan.**

**No sharescovered by this Option shall be issued or delivered unless anduntil, in the opinion of Counsel for The Clorox Company, allapplicable registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,as amended, any applicable listing requirements of any nationalsecurities exchange on which stock of the same class is then listedand any other requirements of law or of any regulatory body havingjurisdiction over such issuance or delivery shall have been fullycomplied with.**

**                                                                                                         THE  CLOROX  COMPANY**

**                                                                                                         By:_________________________________________                                                                         **

**                                                                                                              [Name]**

**                                                                                                                [Title]**

**I herebyaccept the above Option to purchase shares of the Common Stock ofThe Clorox Company in accordance with and subject to the terms andrestrictions of The Clorox Company 1993 Directors' Stock OptionPlan, with which I am familiar, and agree to be bound thereby andby the actions of the Employee Benefits and Management CompensationCommittee and of the Board of Directors.  I also agree thatthis Option and The Clorox Company 1993 Directors' Stock OptionPlan constitute an agreement with The Clorox Company in accordancewith the terms and provisions thereof.**

**I agreeto surrender this Option to the Treasurer of The Clorox Company forcancellation or for appropriate notation hereon upon exercise ofthis Option in whole or in part, or upon the happening of any otherevent which makes this Option not exercisable according to itsterms.**

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**DateAccepted                                                                               Optionee**