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7 Best Cleaning Products for your Home
When it comes to choosing the right cleaning products for your home, there are a lot of choices out there. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by how many options there are.
Have you ever wondered what cleaning supplies are recommended by professionals?
Here is our list of 7 cleaning products that will help make housecleaning a breeze and get your home sparkling clean.
Dawn dishwashing liquid
Dawn is not only amazing for dishwashing, but did you know it’s also a surprisingly effective household cleaner? It works wonders as a powerful degreaser and all-purpose cleaner. It might surprise you to learn that Dawn is a staple in professional cleaning caddies.
Because it is pH neutral, it is safe to use on almost every surface in your home. Hardwood floors? Stainless steel? Tile? Yes, yes, and yes.
High pH and low pH cleaning products like vinegar and baking soda are great for some occasions, but they can be corrosive if used improperly. Dawn dish soap is a safe, effective, and cheap multi-purpose cleaner that will blow you away.
Cleaning vinegar
Vinegar is cheap, effective, and easy to use. It’s an effective degreaser and eliminates dirt, grime, and dust throughout your house. Although you can use white vinegar, look for cleaning vinegar in the grocery store. White vinegar has 5% acidity whereas cleaning vinegar has 6%. That 1% difference may not seem like much, but it makes cleaning vinegar a much more potent solution.
It is a great all-purpose cleaner to use in the kitchen, bathroom and almost any surface throughout the house. Dilute it 50% with water and wipe down windows and glass to get rid of smudges and marks left by fingers, dust, and commercial glass cleaners. Use it on floors with a mop to keep them sparkling and shining. Cleaning vinegar cuts down on grease in the kitchen, soap scum in showers and bathtubs, and caked-on grime.
Cleaning vinegar is great on almost everything. However, there are also surfaces you shouldn’t use vinegar on. Don’t use cleaning vinegar on marble or granite surfaces. Due to cleaning vinegar’s high acidity, it should also never be used on solid wood furniture or floors, because it can ruin the wood’s finish. Used correctly, cleaning vinegar is an impressive and cheap everyday cleaning product.
Microfiber towels
At Seatown Cleaners, one of the most frequent cleaning supplies that we use is the powerful and versatile microfiber towel. Microfiber towels are amazing. They cut down on waste by avoiding excessive use of paper towels. House cleaning can use up a lot of resources, especially if you rely on paper towels.
Microfiber towels save you a ton of money in the long run because they are washable and reusable, and highly effective at cleaning a wide range of surfaces.
A microfiber towel is versatile because you can use it dry, or wet. A wet microfiber towel can be used to lift dirt off surfaces and wipe away debris. A dry microfiber towel can be used to dust before wet wiping, and also after wet wiping to get it shiny and polished. All in all, our cleaning caddy wouldn’t be complete without a stack of microfiber towels in it.
Bar Keeper's Friend
This is one of those products that works so well you’ll be recommending it to every single person in your social circle once you see the results. We always keep this product stocked under our kitchen sink. Aptly named, it’s most commonly used in the kitchen to clean sinks, stovetops, pans, and ovens. However, it’s also great to keep in the bathroom and is great on toilets bowls, sinks, bathtubs, and showers.
Bar Keepers Friend is oxalic acid, a weak acid that’s incredibly effective on a variety of surfaces. However, it’s important to avoid ingesting it so make sure to rinse things thoroughly after using it and air out your home by opening some windows. You’ll be amazed at how many things you can clean with BKF; from cookware, glassware, cutlery, faucets, pans, dishwashers, fridges, to doors – the list never ends! One product with a hundred ways to use it.
Krud Kutter
When your all-purpose cleaner just isn’t cutting it, then it’s time to turn to Krud Kutter. Krud Kutter safely removes those hard to remove stains like grease and grime, and works on a surprisingly large amount of surfaces. Want to know our favorite way to use Krud Kutter? On dirty baseboards.
Simply spray it directly on the baseboards, let it sit for 30 seconds to 1 minute, and wipe away with a microfiber towel. It’s that easy.
Krud Kutter also works really well on other greasy surfaces like barbecue grills, oven grease, and stainless steel appliances. It can even be used on glass and vinyl flooring. The name doesn’t lie- Krud Kutter definitely gets rid of pesky, built-up crud.
Pumice stone
When you’ve tried a degreaser and those annoying stains still won’t come out, try a pumice stone. It works wonders on bathtubs, toilets, ovens, dishes, and tiles. Cleaning the oven is one of the most laborious houses cleaning tasks, but a pumice stone makes it so much easier. Used in combination with other degreasers, a wet pumice stone is amazing at removing burnt-on messes and grime in your home. It can even be used as a standalone tool if you’d prefer not to use any chemicals when cleaning.
When you’re using a pumice stone, make sure you’re routinely wetting it to avoid scratching surfaces. What’s really nice about this tool is that it barely leaves any mess behind. With other chemical cleaning products, you can spend a lot of time simply cleaning up your mess after you’ve cleaned up the mess! The pumice stone keeps everything nicely contained.
Mrs. Meyer's All-Purpose Cleaner
Lastly, we love, love, LOVE Mrs. Meyer’s all-purpose cleaning solution. All Mrs. Meyer’s liquid products are biodegradable and do not contain ammonia, chlorine, or phosphates. Mrs. Meyer’s is eco-friendly, leaves your home smelling great, and gets the job done with ease. Our favorite scent is Lemon Verbena- a gentle fragrance that will leave your home looking and smelling cleaner than ever.
We’ve tried Mrs. Meyer’s all-purpose cleaner just about everywhere. Counters, floors, walls, sinks, bathtubs, you name it. While it may not get rid of the most stubborn stains, it does a great job of removing light-moderate stains. We always keep a bottle of Mrs. Meyers close to the kitchen sink for easy cleaning while cooking. If you have pets, children, or simply want to keep yourself free from using harmful cleaning chemicals, Mrs. Meyers will rock your world.
We recommend buying the concentrate, so you can adjust the diluted strength depending on your home’s needs. Keep a light strength spray solution in your kitchen, and keep a moderate strength solution in your bathroom, and you’ll be set.
