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• Restoring Shine To Cookware - Cleaning Copper and Stainless Steel

  Q & A with Tara Aronson

• Cleaning Garage Floors

  Cleaning your garage floor is the first step if you want to change the room into a livable space, lay down new flooring, or just to improve overall appearance and safety.

• Stone Care Made Easy

  Simple steps to natural stone care will keep it looking beautiful for many years.

• Carpet Spills and Spots: How Do You Get Them Out?

  Be prepared for quick action to save your carpet from a spill...and a serious carpet cleaning bill.

• Washing Flat Paint or Enamel?

  Attack a wall with the right approach.

• Alkalies

  Best for removing grease and oil.

• Protective gloves

  We use this term often in describing how to perform various cleaning tasks safely. Here’s what it means.

• Rubber gloves

  Some jobs require greater hand protection than others.

• Lye

  Be careful — as your nose has warned you already, this is a powerful and caustic substance.

• pH

  Following is a quick lesson in the chemistry of cleaning.

• Restore Automatic Dish Detergent

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

• OurHouse Heavy Duty Cleaner

  An all-purpose cleaner with clout, OurHouse Heavy Duty Cleaner is gentler both on the environment and on the user.

• Restore Spray & Clean

  It cleans, it shines ... it's tough on grease?

• StarMop Pro

  Microfiber provides advantages over standard mops.

• OurHouse Carpet & Upholstery Spotter

  This environmentally friendly carpet and upholstery cleaner vacuums away, leaving neither residue nor stain!

• Jeweler's Secret

  Foaming jewelry cleaner.

• Method® HE Compatible Laundry Detergent

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

• 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.

• Eco Products A.P.C. All Purpose Cleaner

  A natural citrus-based all purpose cleaner for cleaning and degreasing.

• Real Simple: Cleaning

  Room-by-room strategies for cleaning every room in your home.

• How to Clean Practically Anything

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

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cleaning

  Simple ways to clean better and healthier.

• Hannah's Art of Home: Managing Your Home Around Your Personality

  Learn how to de-clutter, clean, decorate and organize your home according to your personality style — Starry-Eyed Dreamer, Master Mind, Creative Spirit or Mother Hen.

• Green Clean

  Step-by-step guide to ecological housekeeping.

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