What are you waiting for, get cleaning!

Advantages: Cheaper, safer, non toxic, eco - friendly
Disadvantages: Unfortunately you have to clean.

...With the holiday season fast approaching it?s time to have a good clean in preparation for all those guests, and a clear out to make space for all those presents. Here are some ideas and tried and tested methods I like to use, I hope they inspire you to get cleaning! Most of us hate cleaning, but it has to be done. I find cleaning products have a strong smell that can take your breath away when you clean, making it unpleasant. These products can be damaging to the skin, and do damage to the environment. As consumers we spend a lot of money each year on cleaning products, hoping to make household chores easier. If you prefer to buy cleaning products, you don't need to buy the most expensive; a lot of the cheaper ones are just as effective. Also there are a lot of natural cleaning products that you can find in the cleaning aisle...

Autarkis 19.11.2009 (11.12.2009) · Read review
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Review of Kitchen Cleaning Hints & Tips

Cleaning House

Advantages: Lightweight and effective
Disadvantages: Wipes are quite expensive

..., whilst making the floor look clean and shiny, doesn’t seem to make it too slippery. All in all, I am delighted with my new cleaning system. It was well worth the initial outlay and the mop itself cost less than a standard type mop. Because the cloths are removable, it doesn’t sit around wet in the cupboard and I don’t need to use a bucket. I have started using the dry cloths for polishing too, instead of a duster and spray polish, and find them excellent at attracting and picking up dust. I have even used the mop for cleaning the tiled walls in my bathroom. I just attach a sponge cloth soaked in bathroom cleaner to the mop and mop away at the walls – it looks strange but works very well and means I can reach right up to ceiling height without standing on anything (excellent with my gammy leg!) So...

alliecat 24.07.2002 · Read review
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Review of Pledge Wet Wipes Cleaning System

surf spray

Advantages: worth a try
Disadvantages: very expensive

...Bumble and Bumble Surf Spray, i was lucky enough to have this brought for me as a Christmas Present and it is a great product, bit on the expensive side, but now i know that it is worth every penny i buy it, it is not a product i would buy if i just saw it in the shop and wanted to try it at around £15.00 a bottle. Surf Spray is a product that has copied the summer feeling of being on the beach, without the pain of sand being there, Its helps to give your hair texture and volume that you would normally get after being on the beach. With the help of adding mositure to your hair to protect it and making it more managable. It can be used by all hair types and is suitable for anyone to use and it smells fresh and clean too, unlike the sea smell you expect it to be. For the best results spray on to damp hair and let dry naturally...

jo_field26 25.09.2008 · Read review
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Plasters in a Spray Can.

Advantages: Convenient and easy to use.
Disadvantages: Quite expensive

...Give me a kitchen and a knife and yes, your guaranteed to find a cut somewhere on my hand. Plasters are a norm for me but I do find them getting in the way quite a bit of the time and when cooking, I am worried about the amount of germs that the good old plaster can harbour. Always on hand in my medicine cupboard would be a small bottle of Germoline New Skin. Stings like hell when you put it on but still. Not any more though now, I have found Elastoplast Spray Plaster. Elastoplast are well known for making plasters and recently when walking around my local Tesco on my regular weekly shopping trip I spotted this great little addition to my first aid kit. The Plaster comes in a small aerosol can, yes a small can. The can size is 10cm tall including the lid x 31/2 cm (handbag size). The can is made of metal, (recyclable) silver...

paulpry118 25.03.2008 · Read review
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SEA SPRAY FOR MERMAID HAIR

Advantages: non sticky, enhances curls, hair stays soft, good hold
Disadvantages: boring packaging, not a very exciting smell

...When it comes to beauty products, make-up, hair care and the like I am a somewhat fickle individual. I have cupboards full of things I?ve used once or twice but I always seem to find an excuse to buy more. I?m sure when I go shopping for such items the sensible part of my brain just shuts down and I become an advertisers dream, seduced by rows of eye-catching packaging for things I don?t just want but obviously really really need. I bought GHD Sea Spray hairspray at the hairdressers; I find I become especially vulnerable at the hairdressers. It?s bad enough in Boots where I can just pick and choose what I want to buy but in the hairdressers where a plastic pumped, collagen filled botox beauty is persuading me that I simply cannot live without said product, I find it all too easy to give in. I?m sure I am not the only one who just...

coolcam7 29.04.2007 · Read review
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Flowery fields in my bathroom

Advantages: Smells simply fabulous darlings, good value, works
Disadvantages: None for me

...Flash has a brand of cleaning products that have been around for many years. It has always produced products that have been great at cleaning. However I think that the original Flash was a little strong and overpowering. It was also very hard on your skin if, like me, you did not wear gloves when using. I am always trying new cleaning products when they are on special offer and that is how I came across Flash One for All, Lavender and Camomile Fields. Where do they come up with these fragrance names, I ask myself?. Heaven only knows, but I do know that Flash one for all, in Lavender and Camomile Fields fragrance, smells fabulous. It is one of those scents that lifts my spirits which is an added bonus with any cleaning product. Purchased in one of those trigger spray plastic bottles it appears very standard. The actual product is...

grafter123 21.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Flash Lavender & Camomile Fragrance Multi Surface Cleaning Spray

easy wheel cleaning

Advantages: works well
Disadvantages: none :)

...with the product causing any damage to the wheels or tyres or anything, and it is the best wheel cleaning product i have ever used!!!...

moosepr 19.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Wonder Wheels Cleaning Kit

Sun Sprays help, Nivea more

Advantages: Read the Review
Disadvantages: Price, requies frequent application

...around a beach dressed like a hi fi executive, to be protected against the sun simply because this is a ridiculous idea. But he matter of factly refered to use something, may be a lotion or even a sun spray to take care of that! Do you know what I did? I looked for some useful stuff just here at ciao, because I have some reasonably good reviews published up here and number of people said that their reviews are generally unbiased and best of to is that, they all review it with a good bit of personal experience. I read as many helpful reviews as possible on these types of products. Ultimately my girl friend, and me decided on Nivea Sun Spray factor 10. We took an average and found that the Nivea Sun Spray factor 10 seemed to be the best. Now the problem is getting it. We got hold of factor 2, factor 8 and even factor 15 but not 10. As...

roktimdutta 15.06.2009 (19.06.2009) · Read review
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When I'm Cleaning Windows

Advantages: Lovely shiny, sparkly, clean windows, that everyone will admire and envy.
Disadvantages: Takes a bit of effort.

...~ ~ I?ve lost count of the number of opinions I?ve read since I joined Ciao about cleaning windows, endorsing this cleaning product and that. Mr. Muscle is probably the best of these, with the worst (in my opinion) being Windolene, that leaves the glass with so many streaks you?d swear an army of snails had been marching up and down it all day long. Cif Wipes, the one wipe cloths, seem to be the latest craze, with a lot of recent opinions giving them a good write up and rating. I haven?t tried these yet, but in my time I?ve probably tried just about everything else. ?Her indoors? is very particular indeed when it comes to the house windows, (are all the ladies like this?) and I have a bit of a fetish myself about always having clean glass in my taxi, as I think it leaves a good impression with the customers, as well as helping me to...

the_mad_cabbie 16.05.2001 (22.02.2004) · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on Window Cleaning

Soothing Protection Spray

Advantages: It really works, lasts ages
Disadvantages: None

...I bought this after using and loving the Multi-active toner, but finding that it didn't soothe my skin when I needed it to. It costs around £21 for a 250ml bottle, but as usual shop around and you may be able to find it cheaper. Dermalogica say this ultra-calming spray is formulated with their exclusive 'Anti-Ozonate Complex' to protect skin from reactive ozone while botanicals immediately reduce irritation, redness and inflammation. It shields skin from further environmental assault caused by temperature extremes, pollution, irritating cosmetic products, harsh detergents, chemical exposure, stress, poor diet or hormonal factors. Soothing Green Tea, Canadian Willow Herb, Cucumber, Liquorice and Raspberry extracts deliver potent anti-itching, healing and antioxidant properties. It contains no artificial fragrance or colour, and is...

CherryVegas 20.04.2009 · Read review
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