Too many chemicals are used in cleaning

Yy to washing up liquid. I use Ecover washing up liquid for all sorts of things. It’s great for getting grease out of clothes.

I agree I just use Ecover toilet cleaner and MP. Only clean once a week. I hate to think what all this endless cleaning and chemicals are doing to immune systems.

Washing up liquid is great on hobs at removing grease. I loathe sprays on kitchen tables and work surfaces… like OP I feel that fairy liquid is tried and tested and probably won’t harm you if you were to ingest it.
Bleach in the loo and bathroom spray on sinks etc although I prefer the more natural ones on the market ( though they don’t remove built up line scale)
Furniture polish spray for wood.
That’s it.

I use a washing up liquid to clean bathroom and bit diluted bleach for areas that need mildew removing.

Kitchen I just use a multipurpose cleaning spray. Neat is my fav at the mo

I hate cleaning stuff because they all smell so bad. I use washing up liquid and hot water for most things, alongside bicarb, vinegar, lemon juice.

How much overlap between the "vulva not vagina" and the "everything is a chemical" groups is there, I wonder? 🤔 😀

I agree. Then people stand around scratching their heads at steep upticks in cancer etc
Can imagine your poisoned house and our toxic water supply is helping

Everything is a chemical. You have to be more specific. What is a ‘bad’ chemical and what is the evidence cleaning your home with it is bad for you?

I agree. I can get a migraine just watching the Hinch woman.

We use an M&S plant based kitchen spray in the kitchen for some things (and the equivalent in the bathroom). I use MINIML washing up liquid and hot water for other things and then Nancy Birtwhistle’s Pure Magic for the loo. I also use eCloths for shiny things and glass.

That said, I have cleaners once a fortnight who use a Flash bathroom cleaner and an Astonish kitchen cleaner but otherwise it’s just soap and water.

Remember, these people are sponsored by xyz company and encouraged to sell these products to you.

Just use what you are conformable with.

I gave up using fancy floor cleaner I use a dab of washing up liquid in a bucket of hot water. For mirrors and windows I just use one part white vinegar to three parts of water - brilliant results . I use cheap disinfectant to freshen bins and a bathroom spray and kitchen spray .

I think it's more than clear what OP is trying to say.

I don’t get sucked into the commercials advertising all those sprays. I only buy a de-greaser for the gas hob, wash up liquid and bleach. Sometimes an all purpose cleanser for the floors.

My mother never had them apart from bleach and washing up liquid and none of us died. It’s all a con. We don’t need them but the adverts play on our insecurities.

I use hot water and washing up liquid for most things, especially in the kitchen so cupboards, fridge freezer, microwave etc. and I also use it for things like cleaning the sofa. I have an antibacterial spray for the counter tops.

For other general surfaces around the house I'm currently using the purdy & fig cleaner which I was given. It smells lovely but the smell doesn't last unfortunately. I like wood silk for my wooden furniture.

Bathroom I use the flash liquid bathroom cleaner, it is the best thing I have ever tried it just cleans everything wonderfully including the glass and mirrors. It's quite hard to find in the shops now so I stock up where I can. I also use a Harpic pine toilet cleaner.

White vinegar spray for other mirrors.
Hard Floors & windows are soap and hot water again.

That is quite a few different products when added up and I could probably do with just hot water and washing up liquid for most of it but with things like the bathroom cleaner, it just does a better job/ less work.

I find it hard to understand why anyone with 2 young children would find time or motivation to watch someone else cleaning.

Madness.

Insta is no essential!

I don't use it.

You need a few very basic products.

I'm old enough to be your Mum and my house is clean.
In my house I have-

washing up liquid (use on worktops and kitchen surfaces)

bleach - for toilets and wiping some surfaces (diluted) if there's been contact with raw chicken.

Spray white vinegar- for cleaning windows

Cif- for an extra clean of wash basins

Flash or Cif or Method floor cleaner for hard floors

Shower/bath cleaner with limescale remover (but washing up liquid doubles up as a bath cleaner.)

Several microcloths
Dusters

Antibac is harmful.
You can remove bacteria simply with hot water and soap/ liquid detergent on any surface.

Citric acid is descaler. I use it in my bathroom down the loo with hot water to descaler. Vinegar also works.

Nancy is the queen! I now use lemons to soak in the white vinegar to get rid of the vinegary smell and my cleaners use more lemon essential oil + orange and herbal ones like thyme and rosemary and the house smells absolutely gorgeous.

Making your own bicarb based carpet/rug/mattress powder is cheap and easy. Bicarb, plus scent of your choice. Use soap crafting sites to find essential oils or perfume oils.

And it's cheaper than all the fake perfumed stuff, and way better for the environment and probably us too. Youngest kids old school polos get cut up into cleaning cloths, old socks for dusters. It's not hard to save money and still have a clean fresh home.

I think most of us have been brought up to spray sprays everywhere and think of that as cleaning. When I had a cancer scare I suddenly thought "why?". Do I need this "kitchen spray"? Do I need this "bathroom spray"? Have they given me cancer? Some of them are absolutely noxious, they give you thumping headaches and pollute the water.

Like someone else I now just wipe down my kitchen surfaces with a blob of washing up liquid. Far less toxic and works fine! The bathroom I mainly clean with liquid soap and descale with vinegar. I do sometimes use toilet cleaner due to hard water, but I'm not spraying it everywhere. I also have a steam cleaner for non-toxic sanitising.

You need to swap to watching Nancy Birtwistle's Insta - she is at the other extreme where everything can be sorted with some lemon and bicarb.

my kitchen I mainly just use a sponge and washing up liquid. I have antibac spray but dislike the thought of it getting into foods we're eating

In terms of actual chemistry, can you tell me why it’s OK to eat traces of washing up liquid but not antibac spray?

White vinegar / isopropyl alcohol / water mix for me. This cleans pretty much everything. Periodic bleach down the loo and that's about it.

I'm a fill up the sink with washing up liquid or a washing pod, wipe down surfaces, bathroom I have one spray and a toilet cleaner.

I used a damp cloth for dusting.

So I also watch those Instagram accounts and shocked by the amount of products they seem to need.