HELP: What Cleaning Stuff do I really Need got Half of Tesco under my Sink!!

LJM

i have satrdrops neat and also diluted/bleach/soapflakes/microfibre cloths/bicarb/white vinegar and a few shops own brand products i have still to use up

dlb

I now use stardrops for everything, have 2 different types of stardrops the yellow one, and the white one, dont buy washing up liquid anymore stardrops does the job, it cleans my bath sink toilet dishes and smells great!!

You can normally get it from your local bargin shop, i get mine from a small cheap store, at only 89p a bottle it lasts ages!!

furndire

Stardrop sister product Starclens is also very good for the really greasy gunk around your cooker. Lifts the grease off cooker top really well. I actually enjoy cleaning cooker top now. If you have a Home Bargains near you, you can get stardrops for 59p.

Maz

I use soda crystals for laundry ( add a couple of drops of lavendar oil if you want it to smell nice), or Grannies soap flakes.
For the bathroom I use a combo of soap flakes, bicarb and a few drops of white vinegar all mixed up.
For the lav I put borax in it last thing at night then give it a good scrub around with lav brush in the morning, shifts stains. Bleach is evil and hugely damaging to the environment! You're wasting your time waging war on germs and bacteria, as soon as you kill 1 million another million will replace them, so don't sweat it.
For furniture I use a combo of water, white vinegar, olive oil and lavendar oil (for a nice smell), woodwork comes up lovely!
For an antiseptic spray (worktops etc) I use combo of water, a few soap flakes and tea tree oil. Also use this in the mop bucket, hot water obviously.

If you have sensitive skin ( I have excema), I've replaced the bathroom soaps with standard household soap from Boots, excema all but disappeared! And cheap to buy, lasts ages.

Have to say, I haven't bought branded cleaning products for years, think they're a waste of money! The stuff I use costs pennies and only takes a few minutes to get together.

Hope this helps lovey!:D

tawnyowls

CCStar wrote:

Thank you we have just bought one:)

Lidl have similar ones - white with a yellow side.

Toxic_Lemon

What is Stardrops Dry Clean? My mum saw it yesterday in Sainsbury's?

stefejb

Bleach is evil and hugely damaging to the environment! You're wasting your time waging war on germs and bacteria, as soon as you kill 1 million another million will replace them, so don't sweat it.
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I'd like to stop using bleach and don't put it down the loo but use it occasionaly for white laundry (tried ecover bleach and it was ok but pricy and not always easy to find here) and bleaching out stains on my kitchen floor and work surfaces - can anyone suggest an alternative?

TIA

stef

LJM

oooh yeah what is stardrops dryclean is it a new one?

tawnyowls

stefejb wrote:

Bleach is evil and hugely damaging to the environment! You're wasting your time waging war on germs and bacteria, as soon as you kill 1 million another million will replace them, so don't sweat it.
I'd like to stop using bleach and don't put it down the loo but use it occasionaly for white laundry (tried ecover bleach and it was ok but pricy and not always easy to find here) and bleaching out stains on my kitchen floor and work surfaces - can anyone suggest an alternative?

This is a little OTT. Bleach is far less destructive than many other disinfectants. It's been used for at least a couple of centuries, and the amount going into the drains from households is far less than that used by paper manufacturing and other industries.

If you don't want to use it for whitening, you could try a non-hypochlorite bleach such as Oxiclean, which is more environmentally friendly.

ceridwen

Of interest here - good article by Rhonda Jean on her latest blog entry on her blog (ie 3 January 2008):

http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com

worth viewing - particularly as she is now one of us - having recently joined the MSE Old Style Forum as a regular contributor.