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• Saving Money

  Stretching Your Family's Dollar Around The Home

  Making a few wise purchases now can fatten your pocketbook in the long term - from adjusting heating and cooling systems to switching to soft water so your washing machine and clothing will last longer.
• Spring Cleaning

  Spring Cleaning Still in Season for Most Americans

  The Soap and Detergent Association’s (SDA) spring cleaning survey reveals consumers’ cleaning personalities, purchasing patterns
• Wood

  How to Care for Wood Furniture

  Tips to make your wood furniture last for generations.
• Flooring

  Tips for Wood Flooring and Hard Surface Flooring

  Hardwood and other floors a hassle? The IICRC experts share tips on cleaning and maintaining wood and hard surface floors.
• Laundry

  Wash Daze: Laundry Gadgets Won't Lighten the Load

  These gadgets do little more than clean out your wallet.
• Laundry

  Washday Helpers

  What improves your laundering, from enzyme prewashes to fabric softeners.
• Bathroom

  Clean Ideas: Keeping up with the Grime

  12 tips to help keep the bathroom clean and sparkling on a daily basis.
• Enzymes

  Laundry Detergent — How Enzymes are Changing Your Wash

  Adding enzymes to laundry detergents provides consumers with the cleanest wash yet.
• Disinfectant

  What Germs Are We Killing? Testing and Classifying Disinfectants

  Since all germ-killers are considered pesticides, the EPA requires testing to certify manufacturer's claims for safety and effectiveness.
• Cleaning Product Ingredients

  Industry Amends Ingredient Communication Model

  Companies are voluntarily sharing with consumers more information about the ingredients in their products.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Go for the Deep Carpet Dirt

  Your carpet's fibers, whether natural or man-made, dictate the method you should use for regular deep cleanings.
• Laundry

  Laundry Color Tips

  What to do to prevent color loss.
• Leather

  Cleaning Leather Furniture

  Tips from the pros.
• Laundry

  Airing Dirty Laundry Issues

  A 1999 University of Arizona study found 25% of home washing machines were contaminated with fecal bacteria. Several factors were implicated in contributing to the contamination of the washers.
• Laundry

  Attacking the Laundry Monster ... and Living to Tell About It

  Create a laundry system to tame this frequent task.
• Laundry

  Sorting Secrets

  There's more to the sorting game than just keeping dark garments away from the gleaming whites.
• Laundry

  Whitening Your Whites

  How an egg timer gets your whites cleaner, plus more important tips about chlorine bleach.
• Marble

  Removing White Powder from New Marble Floor

  Q & A with Fred Hueston
• Antibacterial

  A Perspective on Antibacterials — Please Don't Routinely Use Pesticides

  One cleaning expert shares his views on antibacterial products.
• Laundry

  My Favorite Laundry Tips

  Quick tips for making laundry duty faster, easier, and cheaper.

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