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• How Does Your Water Affect Your Laundry?

  Your water supply may require extra measures for best results.

• Make Household Chores Easier With Softened Water

  Use soft water and you'll do less hard scrubbing.

• On Laundry Detergent

  The Soap and Detergent Association lays out the options for getting your clothes clean.

• Save Suds, Water and Energy

  Specially designed laundry detergent and high-efficiency washing machines can reduce water and energy use to as low as 20 percent of that consumed by the conventional load of laundry.

• New Enzyme Alternative to Bleach - Keeping Whites Whiter Naturally

  Anyone who has washed or worn white clothes knows that white shirts stop looking white after a few washes and start to turn a shade of gray. A new laundry-detergent enzyme helps prevent this from happening, without the use of bleach.

• Detergent

  A cleaning agent that, unlike traditional soap, works well in hard water.

• Soap

  The old standby is mild enough for personal use, but doesn’t work too well in hard water.

• Water softener

  A powder can help with laundering in hard water. There’s also a more permanent solution.

• Surfactant

  It makes water wetter!

• Rinse

  This step in the cleaning process has the biggest impact on final results.

• Restore Automatic Dish Detergent

  Tom McNulty puts this automatic dishwasher gel's "super-concentrated" claims to the test.

• Tide to Go

  Treat stains while you are still at the restaurant or picnic with a pen-sized stain-removing ... pen.

• Ladybug XL Steam Cleaner

  The Ladybug XL Steam Cleaner is a great steam cleaner that will allow asthmatics to clean virtually every surface in their homes, with plain water and without using chemicals.

• Sargent Steam BrZ2

  Chemical-free cleaning is a huge advantage when it comes to creating and maintaining a healthy and comfortable environment for allergy and asthma sufferers — and, maybe everyone else too.

• Restore Toilet Bowl Cleaner

  Tom McNulty tests Restore's toilet bowl cleaner against two other brands and a friend's tough rust and hard water deposits.

• Hoover SteamVac All-Terrain Carpet & Hard-Floor Cleaner

  All-terrain steam vacuum.

• Tide HE (High Efficiency)

  Laundry detergent specially formulated for HE (High efficiency) washing machines.

• Showers-n-Stuff

  Highly Effective General Bathroom Cleaner.

• Method® HE Compatible Laundry Detergent

  A non-toxic laundry detergent that is compatible with high-efficiency and standard washers.

• Sprinty Microfiber Mop Wet and Dry System

  Use this versatile tool for dust mopping or wet mopping. Detergent is optional with microfiber's special cleaning properties.

• Haley's Hints on DVD

  Everything from laundry advice to clever stain removal, ideas for pest control, as well as hints on cooking, painting, sewing tips and household storage.

• Clutter Control

  Jeff Campbell turned his time-and-motion attention to the problem that plagues so many contemporary households: mild to utter chaos.

• Common Sense Organizing

  A step-by-step program for helping you take control of your home and your life.

• How to Clean Practically Anything

  Consumer Reports provides hundreds of timesaving solutions for all around the house.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Carpet Cleaning Tips for Dummies®

  How-to guide offers easy carpet cleaning tips.

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