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March 16, 2013
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The best charwoman articles don't necessarily amount a fortune. ShopSmart, the arcade annual from the administrator of Consumer Reports, afresh articular 12 charwoman articles that assignment as able-bodied or alike bigger than their big-ticket counterparts, according to tests.
"It's important to accept the appropriate accoutrement for cleaning," said Lisa Lee Freeman, editor-in-chief of ShopSmart. "We've begin some abundant articles that formed able-bodied -- and they don't amount a lot of money."
Here are some of ShopSmart's picks for the best arrangement cleaners:
>> Cleanser: Comet with Bleach, $1.25, can be acclimated to accouterment abounding jobs. This antibacterial alike did abundant in ShopSmart's boxy toilet basin cleaner tests.
>> All-Purpose: Original Pine-Sol, $2.48, exhausted out 18 pricier cleaners and larboard no streaks.
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>> Laundry Liquid: Up & Up HE Fresh Breeze (Target), $13 (11 cents per load), works in approved and HE washers and did abundant on grass, amber and added stains.
>> Stain Stick: CVS Total Home Instant Stain Remover On The Go, $1.99, performed as able-bodied as Tide to Go in tests. Like Tide, the alone stain it couldn't lick was lipstick.
Infomercial Cleaners
ShopSmart aggregate added than a dozen charwoman articles hawked on TV infomericals and put these articles to the analysis in absolute homes, swabbing floors, blanket cobwebs and charwoman bedraggled bath adhesive and backyard grills. Some did OK, but best were letdowns. Below are four articles that were absolute duds.
>> Deluxe Hi-Reach Charwoman Kit ($37 additional S&H). This kit is able with assorted blanket heads, a lightbulb banker and a squeegee. The adjustable blanket arch is declared to advice users get to hard-to-reach places with ease. ShopSmart testers got to some hard-to ability spots with this product, but "flexible" is an adumbration — it's too bendy, and the blanket adapter bankrupt afterwards angle one too abounding times.
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>> Barbecue Daddy Barbecue Cleaner ($14.95 additional S&H). Although it claims to be a "revolutionary grill-cleaning tool" that cleans with the ability of steam, it didn't leave grills spotless in tests, and one ShopSmart tester's duke got hot. Instead, use a apple-pie aerosol canteen abounding with baptize and a barbecue besom for cheaper, bigger results.
>> Adhesive Bully ($20 additional S&H). This artefact says it will apple-pie and renew adhesive on contact, additional abolish cast and annihilate mildew. In tests, it was a messy, time-consuming job, abrogation the adhesive attractive like it was corrective on. It initially hid — but didn't annihilate — cast and mildew.
>> The Original Smart Mop ($19.99 additional S&H). Claiming to cut charwoman time in bisected and never acceptance a user's easily to blow bedraggled water, this mop bankrupt floors fine. However, agee the pole to choke it out generally alone a screw, which fell off, and the handle came afar too.
Five Assurance Musts
No amount what articles and accoutrement are acclimated to clean, it's important to consistently booty caution. Here are ShopSmart's bristles charwoman assurance musts:
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>> Never mix achromatize with ammonia, alkali or added acids. Those combos can aftermath baleful gases.
>> Consistently abrasion gloves to assure skin.
>> Store safely. Accumulate all cleaners, including bootleg ones, well-labeled. Store them abroad from kids and pets.
>> When alive with actinic cleaners, analysis admonishing labels, accessible windows and doors, and accumulate kids and pets far abroad from area you are cleaning.
>> Try a cleaner in a hidden atom afore application it on a apparent for the aboriginal time to accomplish abiding the artefact doesn't account any birthmark or damage.
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