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My overall favorites are Windex for windows and shining chrome and Fantastik for greasy stuff like counters, stovetops etc. For the kitchen sink and bathtubs/tiles I like VIM the best, not so gritty as the powders. It's also fabuloso for removing tarnish from silver things, like your tiara's and such without scratching the gemstones or weakening the settings.
 
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Tim, our cleaning lady prefers Tilex Soap scum remover, Windex, and Pledge and clorox Cleanup for floors and counters etc.

We use some of the same that she does, but prefer other ones also, when we have to clean on the off week. That is why we have so many.

Well..... I guess we have to adjust. The CLEANING LADY RULES!! LOL
 
Cleaning Lady

We just started having a cleaning lady for the past 10 months. Always did our own. No one could do as good a job as yourself. Well. These two women to a fine job. I go over what was missed, which is very little. As you get older your standards go down a little.
 
Hey Rayjay..I use the Bar Keeper's on my counters. They are stainless and this stuff really does a graet job on cleaning and polishing. I do not like the oil based stainless products for everyday cleaning. I have found that the Bar Keeper's is great on all metals. Bottom of pans, stainless, copper, it removes stains and discolorations of all kinds. I used it on my old Westinghouse roaster top and it shines like a new one. Regarding the housekeeper...let me tell you, that is a luxury that Ken allows me. I have found someone that really does a great job. It took several tries for me to find someone but this lady is wonderful. She is also a fun nice person.
 
Mrs. Meyers All-Purpose lemon verbena scent is wonderful stuff. And nothing works better on stainless steel than Barkeeper's Friend.
 
1. Bon-Ami/Barkeeper's Friend
2. Windex Original (the blue stuff, no additives please)
3. Easy-Off BAM
4. Sprayway glass cleaner (new, but very old-fashioned aerosol-spray cleaner that is the BEST)
5. SOS/Brillo soap/steel wool pads
6. Lysol original scent spray (in the yellow/brown can)
 
Ajax Spray and Wipe, Showers and Baths (just wipe the soap scum off with no grit)
Windex Surface and glass.
Morning fresh washing up liquid
Harpic Duck on the Potty
Exit Mould when the shower gets grungy (This stuff can strip your lungs)

I've been curious about Easy off BAM, but the ads are so cheezy I've yet to bother.
 
Pine SOl
Clorox toilet bowl cleaner
Dow scubbing bubbles for the shower
Dawn dish liquid (for the few dishes I wash by hand)(Mostly for other kitchen cleanup.)
Cascade pure rinse powder
Stainless cleaner
windex
clorox ready wipes for those quicky clean ups
And a whole host of other clean up stuffs to keep the brooms/cars clean. wish some one sold it by the 55 gal drum. lol

This does not include laundry supplies. That would be another thread.
 
I use Soft Scrub on my sinks - even the ones that are already trashed by harsher scouring powders.

I also find Formula 109 useful for various hard surfaces that might be damaged by harsher preps.

Then there's Simple Green, which has dozens of uses.

I use borax when I clean showers, tubs, toilets. It helps to retard mold and bacterial growth (I believe the pink stains left in shower stalls around here are from Serratia marcesens, which the US Army sprayed liberally around the SF Bay Area in the 50's in an ill-advised germ warfare experiment).

Last but not least, TSP and STPP. I use both outside the laundry room. TSP is a great degreaser, and STPP is a more gentle cleaner that works good for porous surfaces. I've even tried adding STPP to bath water. In small amounts, it seems to make the bath more soothing.
 
Easy off Bam-Dame Edna

Hi Brisnat,
Be extremely careful with Easy-Off Bam as it's main cleaning agent is sulfamic acid!!,although I have not used it myself,I most likely would not use it for that reason as I posted here a few weeks ago, I was nearly choked out by a generic brand spray-on tile cleaner.
Matty,
I remember Dame Edna when she did the old Malleys Whirlpool commercials.
I guess you are a young fella and so most likely would not remember some of the old cheesy ads from the 1970's such as;
Mrs.Marsh and the Colgate ring of confidence and how the liqiud soaks through the chalk, or the Fab lady who whenever anyone praised Fab detergent the box she was conveniently carrying shook and shook and finally exploded in an avalanche of lemons or even the old Ajax laundry detergent lady who;s Ajax with it;s wonderful '"blue beads of bleach which get out any stain" and who's husband smugly declared himself foreman material.
Oh dear to be young again instead of 41!!
L.O.L. L.O.L. L.O.L.!!!!!!!!!
Cheers guys.
Steve.
 
Fantastik

I can not live without Fantastik. I use it for almost everything. I'm not happy that they changed the formula a year or so ago. When it was milder, it was safer to use on vintage finishes. Now it sometimes wants to take part of the finish off with the grease or whatever. But it's still the greatest, I just have to be a little more careful.
 
Jon, ditto on our moms (or mum if your from the UK). I just live in the house and try not to bite the hand that feeds me, but sometimes that's a little difficult.

But when I was free and living on my own. Windex, Fantastik, all the Clorox products (tub & tile, toilet cleaner, etc.), I had this cool Clorox mop that used a disposable Swiffer type head and you squeezed the trigger to dispense the fluid onto the floor (yeah, sounds like another activity). When was in the Amway biz, I did like LOC. It could get stains off really well. Also, I bought some stuff called "Upper Hand" which is just as good or maybe better. I cleaned my stove SHINY with that stuff. How come the "door to door" stuff always seems to work better than the store bought stuff? Or is that psycological.
 
Jason. I have also used Amway products. Their SA8 laundry detergent, dw detergent, and well... all of their other products are great. They cost more, but a little goes a long way. I also think you can get the SA8 with PHOSPHATES!!!!

I am a Shaklee distributor. Not that active in it, but their products are also ver good.
 
Their prices are ridiculous

Amway and Watkins products are way over priced IMOP! I'm not saying that their products aren't good it's just that their prices are ridiculous. As far as pricing goes, Watkins may be the worst of the two. From everything to detergents, and glass cleaner, ect. I recently threw out a Watkins catalog because their prices were making me sick!!! LOL
 

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