What cleaning products do you swear by?

[Michelle]

I am pretty flexible, but one cleaner I always buy is Lysol Cling toilet bowl cleaner.

[captclearance]

Mr. Clean and Oxy clean......

[Darlene]

I really like Castrol Super Clean Tough Task Cleaner/Degreaser. Works great for both indoor and outdoor jobs. It's concentrated so a little goes a long way. Good stuff!
Auto:Engines,tires,upholstry,vinyl seats, etc
Marine:fiberglass decks & hulls
Indoor:Ovens,appliances,tubs& showers,sinks,counters,walls,etc
Outdoor:Grills,concrete,plastic furn.,tools,patio umbrellas,and my fav canvas awnings.
I now take you back to your regularly scheduled program.

[bamamomto4]

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[dozymom]

Stuff I swear by and not at!

Comet-- still does the toilet better than anything else and I like the shiny sinks and tubs and taps it leaves behind after a rinse. I buy in bulk at Costco. For smaller jobs I like baking soda.

Red Juice concentrate by the Clean Team. I've found a generic equivalent, it's an odourless, non toxic engine degreaser that happens to be safe in the kitchen as well as all around the house. Doesn't give me asthma the way 409 and Spray Clean used to. I dilute it into spray bottles and I have a bottle under the kitchen sink, both bathroom sinks and in the laundry room. Cleans everything.

Windex. Still works better than Blue juice by the clean team and club soda which isn't a bad alternative. I don't use it much but I like it for little glass clean ups.

(I use no name Costco dishwasher detergent to scrub my windows because when I rinse that "sheeting action" helps keep it streak free after I squeegee it dry.)

Baking soda for polishing chrome on kitchen appliances without scratching. For oven spillovers (and the shiny black goo after can be vacuumed up, but leave a nice white layer of soda in the bottom, for the next smokey spill) Later after many heatings, that soda packs a wallop for cleaning the oven that regular unheated soda doesn't. Use it with a green scrubby pad (and wear gloves!) for maximum effect.

Salt for soaking up grease and clearing the drains with boiling water.

Vinegar for scrubbing off soap scum and water spots and soaking off hard water deposits (coffee maker, iron), Vinegar makes a good rinse to take the ammonia residue off floors before waxing, after stripping.

Clear cheap non sudsing Ammonia for cleaning floors, stripping wax, cleaning the oven parts-- (in a trash bag with the oven racks, drip trays and burner rings.) Biodegradable and safe.

Dish liquid in the shower to quickly use a brush over the walls and tub for sparkling clean. I do that about once a week. Just brush on with a white scrubby pad (I have one that looks like a scrub brush, I don't scrub, just apply with the scrubby thingy, and that does it. Let sit while you towel dry after the shower, then rinse with the hand held shower wand -- which is another good cleaning tool and squeegee to a near perfect clean)

A squeegee for tub walls/showers. Keeps water spotting to a minimum, apply after every use.

And another windows only squeegee for doing my windows inside and out. (I use a scrub sleeve that goes over my squeegee for scrubbing with that dishwasher detergent solution in hot water) Oh and my squeegee has a telescoping handle so I can reach second story windows from the ground. Best investment ever!

My Hepa filter vacuum from Sears. It is a beater bar canister type and is light and easy to use, does a good job and doesn't make my asthma worse as I use it.

Something known as a Shmop which is sort of like a swiffer on steroids. I can pop fresh covers on and wash walls, floors, strip wax, apply wax and more with that thing. I have a bunch of covers that look like a huge shower cap that fit over the big rectangular head (much bigger head than a swiffer) and I'm done in no time.

[heaven]

I love purple power, i get it at napa, does everything that i need it to do and then some. great on bathrooms, kitchens outside too.

[mtjsmom]

zout for laundry stains..and quick shine for my linoleum floors

[dozymom]

Heaven I'm wondering if that Purple Power from Napa (I assume that is the auto parts store you mean) is the same as my Red Juice concentrate.

Is it a non toxic engine degreaser concentrate?

I'm always looking for an alternative because due to the dollar I don't shop in the States mail order anymore, and if my local discount grocery doesn't carry their version, I want to keep buying the stuff.

[paelthom]

Zout for laundry stains, white vinegar for almost everything and Dawn dishwashing liquid.

[justjenn]

Stuff I swear by:
-Pine Sol (I simply refuse to use anything else)
-Pledge
-Tide, and Downy (I used to never buy either of these, but bought both last time I had to buy detergent and softener, but I am using less, saving more, and they just do a better job)
-Dawn

[heaven]

Yes Napa is a auto parts store. I get it at cost because my fil owns the napa store here in town, which works out great for me. I am thinking it must be the same type of thing, you can use it on anything, i found it works great in the house. they say you can use it outside too. (i haven't personally degreased an engine so i don't know if it works on it or not.)
Check though i bet it will be just about the same thing. Not heavy sented which I love because most cleaners are and i can't have them.

[SewCrafty]

Any of the oxygenated cleaners. I have tried them all, oxi-clean, all and clorox. They all work great on my carpet,

[cody15650]

I like my homemade cleaners. I have found a lot more things that do just as good as the bought ones. I think it's much better, when you know what's in the cleaner. I also make my own wipes for cleaning & for babies even though I don't have no babies, the work good on the car vinal (sp) sorry can't spell.

[dozymom]

Thanks Heaven, I bet it is because its the cleaning action PLUS the non scent that I love. It doesn't set off my asthma.

[QuilterMom]

Vinegar, baking soda, and water.