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Mold
Treating Shower Mold
Mold loves a moist environment.
Bathroom
Clean Ideas: Keeping up with the Grime
12 tips to help keep the bathroom clean and sparkling on a daily basis.
Bathroom
The Bathroom Zoom
Step by step, whip the water closet into a clean place to be.
Door Mat
An Ounce of Prevention
Get 85% of your cleaning done before you start!
Hand Sanitizer
Hand Sanitizer is No Beverage
SDA: Common sense needed in discussions over hand sanitizer use.

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Food Safety
Safe Feasting
Planning ahead can prevent five situations from causing food poisoning.
Steam Mop
Review: HAAN Slim & Light Steam Mop
How does this simple steam mop fare against messes? Find out!
Organizing Strategies
Book Review - A "Pretty Neat" Guide
Organization is not about perfectly labeled boxes or sparkling bare surfaces, but having a system that keeps stress to a minimum and helps us get the most important things done.
Spring Cleaning
Survey: Love or hate cleaning?
How much do we really like or dislike cleaning?
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.

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Vinyl
Easy to clean and maintain, but don’t use strong solvents.
Shower curtain
The best way to clean a vinyl, polyester or cotton shower curtain, plus the skinny on shower rods and curtain rings.
Denatured Alcohol
Denatured alcohol
This solvent is a capable spot cleaner on many hard surfaces.
Shower squeegee
A simple, effective tool that will reduce the number of cleanings showers and tubs need.
Acrylic
Acrylic fixture
Clean gently without abrasives.

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Speed Cleaning 101
Cut your cleaning time in half.
Real Simple: Cleaning
Room-by-room strategies for cleaning every room in your home.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cleaning
Simple ways to clean better and healthier.
Vinegar: Over 400 Uses
Good for our health, our home, and safe for our environment. Over 400 tips, some recipes, a bit of history and a lot of amazing uses for vinegar.
Home Comforts
A comprehensive, classic work on housekeeping.

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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.
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.
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 Ring From Your Bathtub
Save hand-washing houseguests the horror of having to stare at a line of dirt and dead skin ringing the bathtub.
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.