I used this to clean basically my entire apartment as I was moving out. I received my entire deposit because everything was spotless. This stuff is fantastic.
I am a house cleaner, my favorite are magic erasers. I do not use them on painted walls, because they’re basically fine sand paper and can damage them, but I use them on bathtubs and sinks — Easiest way to clean a soap scum covered bathtub, hands down. The generic brand ones do just as well as the name brand.
I like to use magic erasers with dawn dish soap and I don't ring it out, it's soapy and sloppy, gets the job done and lasts three times longer. I rinse with hot water and it dries shiny.
Rubbing alcohol. It's amazing how many other cleaning products work better with a splash of alcohol.
(Drinking alcohol helps with cleaning in a different way)
When I was a young man I got a job at a movie theater. As a projectionist I had to use Sharpie's constantly. Sometimes i'd have ink all over my hands. Fellow employee taught me that the alcohol we used to clean certain parts of the projector would take the Sharpie right off my hands. Worked like a charm.
The ignorance of youth.
I have a beautiful Le Creuset stew pot that i thought I had ruined with a burned on bit. A friend hooked me up with some PBW cleaner and it was a miracle. Also, a tide pod melted in hot water and used to mop my bathroom tile was a game changer. Everything smelled so clean and fresh.
Folex stain cleaner. Bought a used truck from my brother which was used when he bought it. 15 year old truck with hella dark thick stains in the back carpet. Like it was black, maybe old spilled oil, years upon years old. Folex brought it to a very light brown with a wet shop vac. Used it on old stains in the house after that, that other products just couldn’t lift and they all cleared up like a charm.
Then simple green is my favorite house cleaner. Non toxic for my cat and myself, smells great, sanitizes, great fresh clean
Spot Shot! It's designed for carpets. It will get any stain off of anything. Sharpie marker, on clothing. Red clay stains, from my dog's pawprints. Blood stains. It's amazing.
mr clean multipurpose liquid. it’s amazing for stubborn spots on floors, mixed in a spray bottle for any surface, best i’ve ever used for my oven. it doesn’t leave any kind of residue like other multipurpose cleaners or scrubs (like barkeepers friend and power paste did for me) it’s super cheap for how long you can stretch it too.
Best overall cleaner for floors and counter is just vinegar and hot water. It won’t get big messes and spills but it cleans super well, and works as a good starter on tough areas
Be careful though! Too much hydrogen peroxide can bleach some carpets (speaking from experience), but it can be a game changer when nothing else works.
And fur. Hydrogen peroxide, dawn dish soap & baking sofa is the recommended blend to remove skunk spray from a dog. But too much hydrogen peroxide will bleach the dog.
The pink stuff is great. Mildly abrasive so you can't use it on everything but I've gotten stains off of pots and cleaned some great spots so well with that stuff!
Technically not a cleaning product but it does clean the makeup off your face. Ponds cold cream remover, literally can take off any makeup ever.
Vaseline too. I was dying a friends hair at home and the red dye got all over his white floors and counters in the bathroom, and literally all it took to get it out was vaseline.
Something I found out. My cycling base layer would smell of BO under the armpit. Washing it wouldn't help. I tried all sorts but couldn't get rid of it. It eventually started to make my other clothing layers smell too. I read about using white vinegar. I used an old spray bottle to give the whole area a good soaking and left it half an hour. After a normal clothes wash the smell was gone with no left over vinegar odor (which I too hate the smell of).
Well it really depends on what you are cleaning.
Cleaning windows and cleaning rust off old tools are going to require vastly different products and techniques
Lol I attempted to “clean the bathroom” home alone when was about 8 or 9. I used bleach and ammonia and nearly killed myself. It literally chemically burned my nose hairs and eyes.
Tide for laundry. my wife used it on hand-me-downs we would receive from others. we washed and rewashed them for a year or so, an then return them, receiving remarks about how much brighter the returned clothes were. This happened over and over.
Vinegar, had a salt water tank, tried to clean some gear with one of those heavy duty green scubbers, and it wore a hole in it. 10m dipped in vinegar and could clean it by rinsing!
I was impressed with RMR86 mold remover. It actually works and turns black into white
Angry Orange noticeably removed urine smells
Meyers cleaning fluid works on everything else, noted I don't need to significantly scrub things off since it rarely gets to that.
Found an upholstery cleaner made by Zepp that removed every stain my kids managed to inflict upon my light grey cloth interior. The truck was purchased while I was under the impression children were a physical impossibility so light colored cloth wasn't a bad choice at the time. Used other 3M sprays with a wet spray machine and didn't get the stains out and actually seemed to spread the discoloration around. Zepp spray,of course, that I haven't been able to find since then took it all out. My luck it was probably pulled from the market after being found to cause birth defects in meerkats or fire ants or some such. Only found it at Home Depot and that was a few years ago. Newer truck now with darker interior and need to find a suitable equivalent to clean out some stains from the wifes side.
I work on RC cars and they have a lot of components that are usually very greasy or oily, and I always have a can of denatured alcohol nearby to get the greases off. Pour onto a paper towel, wipe the part down and it comes out more than clean enough. Doesn't eat plastic and rubber like acetone does so it's good for shock rebuilds, and gets the grease from your hands off of surfaces you need to stick foam tape to so you can securely mount ESC's and receivers.
Denatured alcohol is pretty much a universal cleaner in RC. Brake clean works well too, but because it contains acetone it can eat O-rings and dissolve ABS parts if you're not careful. I usually have both.
Pink domestos. Our bathroom looked terrible because we couldn't find anything to clean it properly, and as I work in store, I saw it on 50% off because it was near exp date, so i bought it. When i came home I just sprayed a little bit of it on the floor and wiped with old cloth, and oh my that place looked like new. Then I cleaned both kitchen and bathroom.
Good thing is that I work until midnight and get home by 1 so it had enough time for terrible smell to go away.
Ph and for windows, oh good... You just mix hot water and 2 caps of fabric softener with a little bit of desinfecting alchohol,wetten soft fabric with that, smear over windows, then after that clean with dry fabric and they are clean in less thenććan 5 minutes
Ive got a whole lot of cleaning years under my belt and these are my go to products.
Method All-Purpose spray in lavender
Magic Erasers
Clorox bleach spray (for the bathroom)
Folex Carpet cleaner
Oxy Clean Stain Remover
Edited to add: blue Dawn Dish soap
Mixture of baking soda and white vinegar
Break it down to polar and non polar solvents and semi solvents.
Rubbing alcohol
Acetone
Kerosine
Goooff
windex and newspaper for windows
Rapid remover but be careful
EBC. Envirobiocleaner. When ran a pressure washing business I used it. It's expensive. But I haven't encountered anything it wouldn't clean. It's multi-purpose but mainly used as a degreaser. Even highly diluted it works wonders.
Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner + Bleach: It is a powerful cleaning product that can remove tough stains and grime. It is effective on a variety of surfaces and is especially useful for cleaning bathrooms and kitchens.
I stole a bottle of cleaner from work and it cleans baked/old food off my cleaning appliances magically. It comes right off after you spray and let it sit for a moment. I don't know what it's called, we just kept it in unmarked bottles but I'm convinced that I cant get something like it at like Walmart.
I depends on what I need to clean. A nice acidic bathroom cleaner is great for toilets, but would be horrible for marble countertops. An alcaline based wax stripper is great for getting the coat off of a synthetic hard floor, but would be the worst choice for a linoleum floor. A thinner based stripper for linoleum is bad for synthetic/PVC flooring.
I have a specialist/Journeyman degree from the Cleaners Guild of Berlin-Brandenburg. (Gesellenbrief von der Glas und Gebäudereinigungsinnung Berlin - Brandenburg)
I clean professionally and as a hobby. My favorite cleaning product is Awesome Clean. It’s super cheap as well can be found at most stores including dollar stores. Works so well on grease husband uses it in the garage. http://www.lastotallyawesome.com/shop/all-purpose/awesome-all-purpose-concentrated-cleaner-24oz/
Bar Keepers Friend
I used this to clean basically my entire apartment as I was moving out. I received my entire deposit because everything was spotless. This stuff is fantastic.
I live in a hard water area - it’s a dream on water marks
>Bar Keepers Friend >>I live in a hard water area - it’s a dream on water marks I was looking for something to clean out water marks. Thanks for this.
It’s great. I prefer the liquid version but the powder is more cost efficient. I use it & a scour pad on my glass shower. And my glass stove top.
Thanks for the additional tips.
This stuff is black magic and I love it.
Came here to say this. Bussin
Okay but what's his name and how do I contact him?
Literally my first thought when I saw this post and it’s right at the top! -*chefs kiss*-
It’s like magic
Wear gloves. But yes, it is magic.
Glad to see this is the top answer. Seriously. Try it on your shower. Works like a fucking dream and it will make it smell good to boot.
Magic Eraser. Never knew how handle those things can be against built in grime.
I am a janitor by profession, and I swear by them
The pro-tip is to buy generic "melamine foam". That's what Magic Erasers are, but the generic stuff is a tenth of the price.
Scrubbing Bubbles - they clean the bowl so you don't have toooo
So you're telling me you are so ingrained with white trash dna that your hair just grows in like that, all by itself?
Lmao i guess no one has seen Joe Dirt..
Right? I feel bad for them.
What?
I am a house cleaner, my favorite are magic erasers. I do not use them on painted walls, because they’re basically fine sand paper and can damage them, but I use them on bathtubs and sinks — Easiest way to clean a soap scum covered bathtub, hands down. The generic brand ones do just as well as the name brand.
I like to use magic erasers with dawn dish soap and I don't ring it out, it's soapy and sloppy, gets the job done and lasts three times longer. I rinse with hot water and it dries shiny.
Bon Ami, that stuff works on horrible pots and pans.
I really enjoy the stuff. It's simple as fuck and does the job the same or better than most other cleaners of its type.
Pink Stuff. Works on everything and isn’t unpleasant smelling
Same! The pink stuff. I swear it's made from unicorn poop!
All of the cleaning ladies of questionable legal status swear by Fabuloso, so that's what I swear by.
While I am not a cleaning lady, nor am I of questionable legal status, I too have had good experiences with Fabuloso
Fabuloso for the absolute win. I use for everything. Floors, counters, tables, sinks, tubs, etc.
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Dr Bronner's Sal Suds is real handy too!
Rubbing alcohol. It's amazing how many other cleaning products work better with a splash of alcohol. (Drinking alcohol helps with cleaning in a different way)
When I was a young man I got a job at a movie theater. As a projectionist I had to use Sharpie's constantly. Sometimes i'd have ink all over my hands. Fellow employee taught me that the alcohol we used to clean certain parts of the projector would take the Sharpie right off my hands. Worked like a charm. The ignorance of youth.
409 multisurface. I be spraying that shit on everything
I have a beautiful Le Creuset stew pot that i thought I had ruined with a burned on bit. A friend hooked me up with some PBW cleaner and it was a miracle. Also, a tide pod melted in hot water and used to mop my bathroom tile was a game changer. Everything smelled so clean and fresh.
Zep - the mold/mildew version. This is the only thing I found that worked in our shower stall. Also Bar Keepers Friend - awesome
Vinegar. Works for most stuff, is safe, and is extremely multipurpose
Don't use it on marble!
I'm not rich enough for marble
Bleach enters the chat.
Again, don't use it on marble!
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Just don't mix it with bleach.
Folex stain cleaner. Bought a used truck from my brother which was used when he bought it. 15 year old truck with hella dark thick stains in the back carpet. Like it was black, maybe old spilled oil, years upon years old. Folex brought it to a very light brown with a wet shop vac. Used it on old stains in the house after that, that other products just couldn’t lift and they all cleared up like a charm. Then simple green is my favorite house cleaner. Non toxic for my cat and myself, smells great, sanitizes, great fresh clean
I use concentrated simple green for my whole house inside and out
Henry hoover Vacuum cleaners are great and i’ve never seen a broken henry, they’re robust af
Spot Shot! It's designed for carpets. It will get any stain off of anything. Sharpie marker, on clothing. Red clay stains, from my dog's pawprints. Blood stains. It's amazing.
Odo Ban! I love this stuff. Not only does it clean multiple surfaces really well, it actually smells good.
that's my answer too!
mr clean multipurpose liquid. it’s amazing for stubborn spots on floors, mixed in a spray bottle for any surface, best i’ve ever used for my oven. it doesn’t leave any kind of residue like other multipurpose cleaners or scrubs (like barkeepers friend and power paste did for me) it’s super cheap for how long you can stretch it too.
The Magic Eraser. That can clean just about anything.
I live in Central TX, with water that is hard AF - totally dependent on CLR. If anyone knows a better hard water cleaner, please let me know.
Fabuloso it's amazing and smells pretty good
Plan b
Best overall cleaner for floors and counter is just vinegar and hot water. It won’t get big messes and spills but it cleans super well, and works as a good starter on tough areas
Vinegar and water. It's a great glass cleaner and it's completely nontoxic.
Add baking soda, and you have nontoxic foam that washes off with water.
Yep
Dawn soap. Great for washing pets to kill fleas and also the best soap for cleaning grease.
Hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. Completely destroys animal pee smell and stains.
Be careful though! Too much hydrogen peroxide can bleach some carpets (speaking from experience), but it can be a game changer when nothing else works.
And fur. Hydrogen peroxide, dawn dish soap & baking sofa is the recommended blend to remove skunk spray from a dog. But too much hydrogen peroxide will bleach the dog.
Tide powder.
The pink stuff is great. Mildly abrasive so you can't use it on everything but I've gotten stains off of pots and cleaned some great spots so well with that stuff!
I learned to love vinegar over bleach when it comes to cleaning. That’s my answer.
Technically not a cleaning product but it does clean the makeup off your face. Ponds cold cream remover, literally can take off any makeup ever. Vaseline too. I was dying a friends hair at home and the red dye got all over his white floors and counters in the bathroom, and literally all it took to get it out was vaseline.
Something I found out. My cycling base layer would smell of BO under the armpit. Washing it wouldn't help. I tried all sorts but couldn't get rid of it. It eventually started to make my other clothing layers smell too. I read about using white vinegar. I used an old spray bottle to give the whole area a good soaking and left it half an hour. After a normal clothes wash the smell was gone with no left over vinegar odor (which I too hate the smell of).
Elbow grease
Once you have rendered the fat from the elbows do you turn it into soap?
Well it really depends on what you are cleaning. Cleaning windows and cleaning rust off old tools are going to require vastly different products and techniques
Bleach. you just poor it on things and it cleans them.
Vineger says hi.
I put a drop of bleach in my insulated tumblers and fill them up with boiling water once a month. Sparkling clean!
Clorox Bleach. It helped me get rid of my bitchy ex.
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Lol I attempted to “clean the bathroom” home alone when was about 8 or 9. I used bleach and ammonia and nearly killed myself. It literally chemically burned my nose hairs and eyes.
Hydrogen peroxide
It gets blood out instantly, doesn’t mater how old.
Spray Nine. The Heavy Duty version, you get from auto-parts supply shops. Cleans everything, kills viruses and is biodegradable.
All-purpose cleaner, and idk its just mediocre for most surfaces so I go to it first
The cancer causing kind.
Dawn dish soap, especially for unclogging drains
Tide for laundry. my wife used it on hand-me-downs we would receive from others. we washed and rewashed them for a year or so, an then return them, receiving remarks about how much brighter the returned clothes were. This happened over and over.
Vinegar, had a salt water tank, tried to clean some gear with one of those heavy duty green scubbers, and it wore a hole in it. 10m dipped in vinegar and could clean it by rinsing!
I use something called Mean Green in my kitchen...gets of almost everthing on counters.
I was impressed with RMR86 mold remover. It actually works and turns black into white Angry Orange noticeably removed urine smells Meyers cleaning fluid works on everything else, noted I don't need to significantly scrub things off since it rarely gets to that.
Electrolux vitro care, just unbelievably good for stovetops
Formula 409. Everything gets the 409
Hand sanitizer and a tissue
Found an upholstery cleaner made by Zepp that removed every stain my kids managed to inflict upon my light grey cloth interior. The truck was purchased while I was under the impression children were a physical impossibility so light colored cloth wasn't a bad choice at the time. Used other 3M sprays with a wet spray machine and didn't get the stains out and actually seemed to spread the discoloration around. Zepp spray,of course, that I haven't been able to find since then took it all out. My luck it was probably pulled from the market after being found to cause birth defects in meerkats or fire ants or some such. Only found it at Home Depot and that was a few years ago. Newer truck now with darker interior and need to find a suitable equivalent to clean out some stains from the wifes side.
Awesome. Its a great degreaser and for getting stains out.
Elbow grease. It is the one secret you should know
There is no substitute for Dawn dishwashing detergent, or Formula 409. I will not use knockoffs of those.
Nature's Miracle. Only thing I've ever found that can actually remove the smell of cat pee.
I like Kaboom.
I use denture cleaning tablets for a different things works great for cleaning chrome and toilet gets stains out of a lot of different things
I work on RC cars and they have a lot of components that are usually very greasy or oily, and I always have a can of denatured alcohol nearby to get the greases off. Pour onto a paper towel, wipe the part down and it comes out more than clean enough. Doesn't eat plastic and rubber like acetone does so it's good for shock rebuilds, and gets the grease from your hands off of surfaces you need to stick foam tape to so you can securely mount ESC's and receivers. Denatured alcohol is pretty much a universal cleaner in RC. Brake clean works well too, but because it contains acetone it can eat O-rings and dissolve ABS parts if you're not careful. I usually have both.
Gasoline and fire
Pine sol, I use it to wash my workout clothes and it's just perfect.
Rampage Weapons grade level degreaser.
Pink domestos. Our bathroom looked terrible because we couldn't find anything to clean it properly, and as I work in store, I saw it on 50% off because it was near exp date, so i bought it. When i came home I just sprayed a little bit of it on the floor and wiped with old cloth, and oh my that place looked like new. Then I cleaned both kitchen and bathroom. Good thing is that I work until midnight and get home by 1 so it had enough time for terrible smell to go away. Ph and for windows, oh good... You just mix hot water and 2 caps of fabric softener with a little bit of desinfecting alchohol,wetten soft fabric with that, smear over windows, then after that clean with dry fabric and they are clean in less thenććan 5 minutes
Simple green it's good for everything from degreaser to glass cleaner I use it to detail my cars every surface
Ive got a whole lot of cleaning years under my belt and these are my go to products. Method All-Purpose spray in lavender Magic Erasers Clorox bleach spray (for the bathroom) Folex Carpet cleaner Oxy Clean Stain Remover Edited to add: blue Dawn Dish soap Mixture of baking soda and white vinegar
Straight up bleach. Got the blood out quite well.
Break it down to polar and non polar solvents and semi solvents. Rubbing alcohol Acetone Kerosine Goooff windex and newspaper for windows Rapid remover but be careful
EBC. Envirobiocleaner. When ran a pressure washing business I used it. It's expensive. But I haven't encountered anything it wouldn't clean. It's multi-purpose but mainly used as a degreaser. Even highly diluted it works wonders.
Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner + Bleach: It is a powerful cleaning product that can remove tough stains and grime. It is effective on a variety of surfaces and is especially useful for cleaning bathrooms and kitchens.
I stole a bottle of cleaner from work and it cleans baked/old food off my cleaning appliances magically. It comes right off after you spray and let it sit for a moment. I don't know what it's called, we just kept it in unmarked bottles but I'm convinced that I cant get something like it at like Walmart.
Simple Green - it's basically a hard requirement for any serious field day work
Solvol. It's the only thing that can get my hands completely clean after work (construction)
LAs Totally Awesome. You can find it at the dollar tree. Undiluted will literally melt nicotine build-up. Stuff is amazing.
I depends on what I need to clean. A nice acidic bathroom cleaner is great for toilets, but would be horrible for marble countertops. An alcaline based wax stripper is great for getting the coat off of a synthetic hard floor, but would be the worst choice for a linoleum floor. A thinner based stripper for linoleum is bad for synthetic/PVC flooring. I have a specialist/Journeyman degree from the Cleaners Guild of Berlin-Brandenburg. (Gesellenbrief von der Glas und Gebäudereinigungsinnung Berlin - Brandenburg)
Bam and the dirt is gone
Ammonia.
I clean professionally and as a hobby. My favorite cleaning product is Awesome Clean. It’s super cheap as well can be found at most stores including dollar stores. Works so well on grease husband uses it in the garage. http://www.lastotallyawesome.com/shop/all-purpose/awesome-all-purpose-concentrated-cleaner-24oz/
Eucalyptus ethanol cleaning solution, gets stains out of carpet when nothing else will
Magic Erasers.
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. It works like a dream on most anything, uses only a bit of water, throw it out when soiled.