Talking about your favorite cleaning tools & products is difficult, I mean, it’s CLEANING! Can you really have a favorite? Well, the truth is when you spend as much time cleaning as I have, you definitely start to develop a list of your favorite tools and products. Things that make the chore that is cleaning, just a little easier and quicker. In this video we take a look at 7 of my favorites.
for someone who’s been in a cleaning
game for a little while I’ve had my
share of experiences with cleaning
products and tools and over the years
I’ve definitely picked my favorites and
a lot of you guys know what those
favorites are and there are so many that
I really like I mean it’s hard to say I
love because we’re talking about
cleaning here but either way I can’t
talk about all of them in just one video
but today I’m going to highlight for you
seven of my favorite must-have cleaning
products in tool and just a quick
reminder if you haven’t done so already
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if I’ve turned you on to at least one
cleaning products or tool I first
learned about to steal soap about ten
years ago and first I thought it was
weird because I’m like a vegetable base
though one but then was I actually
started working with it I saw how
amazing it was the thing I love about
castile soap is it really gets a surface
squeaky clean and you can use it pretty
much on anything in your house it’s very
neutral it’s very safe – great
replacement for dish liquid in the event
that you want to use something vegetable
based instead of synthetic and frankly I
use castile soap to wash my bod in the
shower I love it that much now the cool
thing about it is you can get unscented
Casteel soap and then you can mix up
your own scent combinations when you’re
making your own cleaning products or
your DIY foaming hand soap which is one
of my personal favorite DIY recipes with
castile soap and we made a whole video
about it so I’ll link that for you down
below so you can learn all about the
different ways you can use Casteel so
it’s hard to imagine cleaning anything
without a good quality sponge especially
if there’s a bit of grime you really got
to break through and over the years I’ve
been sent a ton of different sponges to
tests and I’ve come across a couple of
my favorites the first one is this flat
scrub pad you can find these in home
organizing stores and you can get them
online they are great they’re easy to
clean they don’t really get that dirty
and they really scrub without scratching
and the second one is this non
scratching non cellulose sponge the
reason I like these is because
Stane they don’t hold on to odors and
they’re much easier to keep clean and
sanitary these are fabulous for doing
any wipe down or any general cleaning
where you don’t need to use anything
thorough or heavy-duty you guys have
probably heard me talk about enzyme
cleaners in the past and thought yeah
okay AHA a new kind of smile and nod
we’re going to explain to you why an
enzyme cleaner is so amazing in all of
the different applications for it first
of all it is a vegetable based enzyme
cleaner it’s really safe now enzymes
work a little differently than any other
cleaning product for example soap has
surfactants which means it helps sort of
raise dirt to the surface you can easily
wipe it away acid used in cleaning
products kind of itch away at some of
the dirt or build up or soap scum and
that’s how acidic kind of cleaners clean
now enzyme cleaners are a little bit
different think about it like this when
you eat a cracker and you chew it a
bunch of times your saliva contains
enzymes that breaks down that cracker it
makes it easy for you to swallow and
digest well enzyme cleaners do the exact
same thing they sit on a surface for a
few minutes so the secret with enzyme
cleaners is you actually have to let
them sit and do their work but what they
do is they essentially chew up anything
on the surface that includes bacteria
grease grime dirt odors pet stains all
that kind of stuff and then all you need
to do is clean it away afterward so it’s
a really great lazy cleaning product
because the enzymes do all the work for
you
now enzyme clears can be a little bit
more difficult to come by but if you go
online you can certainly find a few
great brands and the other thing I love
about them is that they’re natural so
they’re safe to use you don’t need to
wear any special gloves or equipment to
use them and they’re super super
effective now typically when you see or
hear about disposable gloves you’re
thinking one of two things first of all
this hand is going somewhere where the
Sun doesn’t shine or someone’s making
you a submarine sandwich well there are
a few other uses for disposable gloves
and while you guys know
not a fan of disposable things
necessarily I do think they’re
appropriate from time to time and yes
while you’re doing the dishes definitely
where dish gloves you don’t need these
but if you’re cleaning something like a
toilet or if someone in your house was
sick and threw up or if you’re emptying
the kitty litter or cleaning up pet
stains you know what these are going to
make you a cleaning superhero because
you would touch things that you
otherwise would kind of turn your nose
up to or feel really grossed out about
and what I love about these gloves
they’re super easy to take off in a
sanitary manner you can toss them in the
garbage give your hands a quick wash and
you don’t think twice about anything
essential oils are essential to DIY
cleaning and when you make up your
cleaning products you want to mask some
of those scents like vinegar hydrogen
peroxide rubbing alcohol because let’s
face it they’re not the most pleasant
scent from the world and even some
store-bought products they might smell
nice to some people but they’re
synthetic scent so if you want to have
the real deal you can always mix
essential oils into your cleaning
products the way you do this is you find
a combination of essential oils that you
love and I’ve got a whole video about
essential oils which I’ll link for you
down below and then you just – in 5 10
20 drops of essential oils into your
solution and you get to cleaning and the
benefit of essential oils not only that
they smell great but the real benefit is
that a lot of them have different
properties that are actually quite
helpful when it comes to cleaning
antibacterial antimicrobial antiviral so
on and so forth and there’s a lot of
information online and even in the video
that we created about essential oils and
how they can benefit you when you’re
cleaning so my recommendation is to go
to a health food store and find 100%
pure essential oils those are the ones
that you want to use when you’re
cleaning and use those for your products
you can’t go to a health food store
you’ll have them close by you can always
go to an online health food store again
you’re just looking for 100% pure
essential oils that is what’s going to
get you that nice clean if you’re into
making up your own DIY cleaner
I salute you I am too and that is one of
the reasons I am so proud to have to
clean my space channel I feel like I’ve
changed so many of your opinions on how
to clean but the problem is when you
make up those cleaning products you need
a good spray bottle guys I feel your
pain because ever since we started this
channel and actually when we had our you
know since we’ve had our cleaning
company we’ve been trying to find good
quality reliable spray bottles that
won’t break and honestly this is the
only one that I’ve been able to find I
mean we’ve had to recycle probably over
a hundred since we started looking this
one I got at IKEA and for those of you
guys who have watched clean my space you
know that we’ve had this one since the
very beginning
if you guys want let me know in the
comments below what we should name this
spray bottle I feel like it deserves the
name it’s so amazing I also pay ninety
nine cents for it
so there’s another check mark so here’s
what makes a good spray bottle when
you’re out shopping these are the things
I want you to look for first of all how
does it fit in your hand there’s this
little loop PAP loop saying back here
that’s supposed to comfortably fit on
the back of your hand if that thing’s
not comfortable it’s going to make
cleaning super painful the next thing
you want to look for is a good quality
trigger so give it a few polls and see
how well it works if it feels rinky-dink
it’s probably going to fall apart
quickly you also want to look for
whether to spray threads onto the bottle
nicely because if it doesn’t you’re
going to have leaks and spills and the
threading is going to pop off the bottle
and not never pretty that’s happened to
me before
I am unfortunate you also want to look
for a bottle that makes sense
is it thick is it going to last you is a
good quality and you also want to make
sure you look for a good weighting so
this one has a nice bell shape the
majority of the weight is in the bottom
it’s narrower at the top so it makes it
nice and organized to carry around and
clean with in other words this spray
bottle is perfect I’m really sorry I
can’t tell you guys where to get it I
did get it at IKEA so you can always
check there I remember in the 80s we had
this little dust buster and it sat in
our office and every now and then we’d
get it out and it was the most
frustrating
because you have to use it so many times
to get crumbs up well vacuums have come
a long way and these days you can get
your hands on a cordless vacuum and this
is one of my favorite cleaning tools
again you guys know that I hate
vacuuming it’s like my number one worst
cleaning job and part of the reason I
can’t stand it is because I just put in
the vacuum so freaking cumbersome you
have to schlep it out plug it in it’s so
bulky you got to move things around but
with a cordless vacuum it just allows
you to zip around do any quick cleanups
you know you have cats we’re always
cleaning up kitty litter anytime we’re
in the kitchen their crumbs and stuff
like that that needs to be picked up and
if we’re having guests come over we also
like to give the front hallway a quick
cleanup so rather than having to get us
a big piece of equipment like the big
kahuna we just get out our little
cordless vests it usually lasts for
about 20 minutes it’s powerful and it
does a great job and guys the great news
is you don’t have to go out and spend a
whole bunch of money on an expensive one
I’ve used ones that are a lot less
expensive than the Haier name-brand
and they work really well too these are
just some of my favorite cleaning
products and tools and as I’ve snow in
the comments down below what is your
go-to your number one favorite cleaning
product or tool a lot of people use the
comment section on our videos for
research and help so the more that you
can share the better you guys can help
each other out and I also learned so
much too I just wanted to let you guys
know quickly that I’m making videos on
my own YouTube channel which is
youtube.com slash Melissa maker and I’ve
got the link for you down below it’s
sort of the same clean my space approach
well researched clearly laid out but
it’s on other topics outside of cleaning
like beauty hair home stuff food stuff
all the other stuff that I’m interested
in that I really can’t talk about on
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