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Grill Cleaning
Clean Your BBQ for Sizzling Summer Cookouts
Here's how to prevent your grill from getting dirty unnecessarily, and clean up before and after cookouts.
Food Safety
Beat BBQ Food Safety Blues
Defend good, clean food when you take dining outdoors.
Lead
Lead in Your Drinking Water?
Lead, rarely a concern at water's source, may indeed be present by the time that water pours out of your tap. Here's what to do.
Bathroom
Bathroom Basics
We know: This isn’t your favorite task. No need to dread what really must be done…
Enzymes
Laundry Detergent — How Enzymes are Changing Your Wash
Adding enzymes to laundry detergents provides consumers with the cleanest wash yet.

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Entertaining Guests
Outdoor entertaining
How to decorate your patio and clean up your grill for a perfect outdoor party.
Vacuuming
How often should you vacuum?
Vacuuming more often can not only improve your health but also make your carpet last longer.
Food Safety
Safe Feasting
Planning ahead can prevent five situations from causing food poisoning.
Disinfecting
Q & A: To Disinfect or Not Disinfect?
Q: I purchased an all-purpose cleaner at a janitorial supply store that doesn't require rinsing, but I noticed that it makes no claims about killing germs. Do I need to use a germ-killing cleaner for regular cleaning of the kitchen and bathroom in my home? Or do I only need that occasionally? - Carolyn E.
Carpet Cleaning
How often should you have your carpets professionally cleaned?
Can you get the same results by doing it yourself?

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Phosphates
Once widely used to soften water for use in washing machines, some makers have reduced use of these chemicals.
Natural ventilation
A scientific term for “airing the place out.”
Builders
Builders
These additives build on the power of detergent in a number of ways.
Cutting Boards
Cutting board
Thorough washing and sanitizing is essential, particularly on meat-cutting surfaces.
Tricket
This tool takes the hassle out of cleaning vertical blinds.

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Laundry
Talking Dirty Laundry With The Queen of Clean
Strategies and tips for cleaner laundry from the Queen of Clean that includes a complete stain removal guide.
Green Cleaning
Cheaper, Greener, Cleaner: Ceiling to Floor Savings
Easy-to-follow recipes for inexpensive, homemade cleaners that are better for the environment and for your health.
Time Saving
No Time to Clean
Don Aslett's secrets of saving time spent cleaning.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cleaning
Simple ways to clean better and healthier.
Haley's Cleaning Hints
Over 1,000 clever, inexpensive solutions help readers clean, deodorize, unclutter and organize their homes.

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DIY
Green Cleaning All-Purpose Spray
HC Producer series winner Leslie Reichert demonstrates how to make your own DIY green cleaning all purpose spray.
Bathtub
How To Clean a Bathtub
Whether you shower in it or use it for long, luxurious baths, there’s nothing clean—or relaxing—about a tub full of grime, mold, or mildew.
How To Clean a Toilet
The gross-out factor of cleaning a toilet cannot be underestimated—but the gross-out factor of not cleaning a toilet is even worse. Better clean the toilet.
Shower
How To Clean a Shower
If the grime in your shower looks like something that would be more at home in a horror flick than in, well, your home, it’s time to take control.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Prevention, Preparation, and Resources
In this video series, experts Allen Rathey, president of The Healthy House Institute (HHI), Professor Liz Goldsmith of Florida State University (FSU) and University of Massachusetts lab scientist Heidi Wilcox, explain how to remove tough spots and stains from carpet using green cleaning methods. Different carpet types, prevention, home-made and retail green products, and specific green cleaners and tools that work are covered in depth.