What's your favorite cleaning product or tip?

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  1. kinser

    kinserActive Member

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    I have to say, just for cleaning purposes, ammonia does the best job (and it's cheap!) It's what I use on my floor daily. Obviously it stinks to high heaven though. There is a brand of all purpose cleaner called Fantasico, that I've only seen in a few different stores, and it smells soooo good. In fact, my sister in law told me she was obsessed with the smell when she was pregnant and in that "nesting" phase, LOL. Anyway, the brand has come out with a new spicy scent that I've never seen used in cleaner, and it smells awesome. It smells mostly like cinnamon. So lately I've been still using ammonia and water as the main compents of my floor-mopping solution, but I add a cap-full or two of spicy scented Fantastico for the smell. What are some of your favorite cleaning products or tips?
     
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  2. classicnyer

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    I use cheap white vinegar for everything. I use it for counters, floors, the stove, my laundry, stubborn things baked on to dishes... everything. When the smell gets to me (like in my laundry, for example) I throw in a capful of lavender oil.
     
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  3. kinser

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    Oooo, I love vinegar too! I use for so many things. I don't use it my floors because it tends to streak, but I have many, many other uses for it. It's great for removing odors (like in the disposal, the dishwasher, or your clothes washer). It's a great booster for laundry, I agree - I think I remember reading it makes the detergent work better.
     
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  4. Linky

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    We also use white vinegar and my personal favorite is bicarbonate of soda. It takes off all kinds of marks and cleans absolutely! It is also green as we have been greening up our products. I have not tried ammonia as yet, I will look more into it. Thank you...
     
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    Just remember not to mix amonia with bleach because it makes a toxic vapor. You are also not supposed to mix bleach with vinegar. Here's a link for more things to watch out for with mixing cleaners.

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    What's interesting is I knew never to mix bleach with ammonia, but I didn't know never to mix bleach with vinegar. It's kind of scary to me that I didn't know that. Luckily, though, I rarely ever use bleach in my laundry, so I guess I've been safe so far, but still, it's kind of scary.

    Thanks for the link.
     
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    I was actually going to mention this same thing when I saw ammonia- Ammonia + Bleach is a big NONO... the fumes are toxic and can be deadly when inhaled!
     
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    My favourite cleaning products are my microfibre cloths, mitts and mopheads. All I need to use with them is plain old water. I go over my windows with a damp microfibre cloth, then polish them with a dry mitt. They come up sparkling clean with no smears. Same for the floors. And if I use a dry microfibre cloth on wooden furniture, it gets all the dust off and shines up the furniture a treat. I just use polish once a month, instead of a cuople of times a week.
     
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    My favorite cleaning product is elbow grease. That's the only way I get my exercise nowadays. Before I use LOC from Amway. It's a bit pricey but the amount needed each time is so little, that in the long run, it's actually quite cheap.
     
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    LOC? I have never heard of this. What is it?
     
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    I like to use bleach. It is great for the toilets once a week to keep all the fun marks away from having three boys in the house! I also like to put it in the kitchen sink and then throw toys in or other things that have gotten dirty. It not only cleans it really well just from soaking, but it also kills all the fun germs that come from two little kids! And, as an added bonus, it is pretty inexpensive and simple. Definitely a plus for any busy moms out there!
     
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    I'm another one on the white vinegar bandwagon. It's too awesome. Other places I use it? In the dishwasher in place of the little blue rinse agents. I also sometimes mix it with baking soda for really caked on stuff on the stove or in the bathroom, etc. The bubbling action and exfoliating powers of the baking soda makes a nice combo with the vinegar.
     
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    You know, the Dollar Tree has some off-name cleaning products that work surprisingly well! One is called LA Awesome or something along those lines. There's another called Orange something. They almost work better than the name brands.
     
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    My favorite cleaning products are white vinegar and baking soda. You can literally clean virtually any surface in your home with these two natural ingredients. They cost pennies on the dollar compared to commercial cleaning products and they don't contain caustic products that harm your health. I refuse to use any chemical cleaning products because their ingredients are terrible.
     
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    I'm a big fan of plain vinegar as a cleaning agent. I didn't know about baking soda. Gonna have to try it. I have heard that adding vinegar to a dark load of clothes helps the black clothes keep their color longer. I haven't tested for myself yet.

    @SEA81: I love LA Awesome laundry detergent and the non-chlorine beach buster. It gets my clothes so very clean. I first learned about it while living in Las Vegas. It was very hard to find in the 99 Cent Only stores because people were buying in by the caseload.
     
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    My favourite cleaning product is Cif, it's a local brand which produces a cleaning cream.
    It's really useful to clean almost everything, you can use it to clean shoes, chairs, cars interior, etc.
    Here you have a picture from it:
    LIMCICFCR.
     
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    White vinegar is my favorite too and the one I use most. I also recently discovered 'Sal Suds' which seems to have tremendous potential. It cleaned a stubborn blood stain (from a bad accident ) out of my carpet, I was sold after that! It supposedly cleans numerous things well in the house, so I'm just starting to play with it.
     
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    I like using my steam mop along with the attachments to clean just about anything in the house. Pair this up with some good dry cloths and I'm good to go.
     
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    Bleach! It makes everything smell clean and it kills all bacteria/viruses. I took Microbiology last year and we did lab experiments with other cleaning products...most cleaning products--especially chemical free environmental products just moved the bacteria around. Gross! Even the hospital hand sanitizers only killed like half the germs. Bleach was my new best friend after Micro! lol
     
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    I don't really use many cleaning chemicals. I like dishsoap, vinegar and water for my kitchen and bathroom floors. You do have to be careful if you have wax on your floor, vinegar will take the wax off. Baking soda does wonders too. I use baking soda and vinegar in my drains, works great! I do not have bleach or ammonia, I haven't used one of them in years.
     
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