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- How to make your own formulas for a more natural approach to cleaning.
- Decide whether cleaning with essential oils is a good fit for your home.
- Recipes for homemade cleaners from Hannah Keeley.
- Raid the kitchen and laundry room for safer alternatives to cleaning chemicals.
- Sealed wood is easy to clean since you're really cleaning the finish — not the wood itself.
- Tuning up your lawn mower and recycling the oil can do more than improve its performance and save money; it can also help protect the environment.
- Tips for cleaning pots, pans and cutting boards in your kitchen.
- Narrow enough to escape frequent notice, aluminum window frames need cleaning, too.
- Look around your home for these items that tend to become household hazardous waste. Plus, try a few recipes for homemade alternatives.
- Do they work? Are they affordable?
- How to handle food stuffs, kitchen surfaces, and fabrics that come into contact with flood water.
- Protecting your stone surfaces — countertops, walls, vanities and floors — is a must before and after entertaining.
- Tips on cleaning and caring for wood furniture.
- Which stain removers work best at removing a variety of stains? CR tested them on coffee, blood, wine, sebum, motor oil, and grass stains.
- Basic cleaning tools that save time and money.
- What exactly is soap? What is detergent? Many home cleaning products are classified as either soaps or detergents. Interestingly, many people really don’t know what these everyday words mean. However, it’s a good idea to take the time to learn, so you can understand their basic similarities and differences.
- What improves your laundering, from enzyme prewashes to fabric softeners.
- How much time does a person sit at home and how does it affect his or her overall health? Some studies note that worldwide the average person spends roughly 300 minutes, or 21% of their day sitting; many people spend much longer.
What can remain after we get up? In many cases, “fallout”...
- Oh, those nasty stains! How do you go about removing that red stain from the fruit drink your son spilled on the floor? What do you use to remove black marker ink from your white marble floor? Does lipstick stain? The list can go on and on.
- Extend the useful life of upholstered furniture and keep it looking great by caring for it properly.

