What’s in your cleaning arsenal?

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Just that really. What are your must haves?

I feel the way I clean has changed over the years from very little (student) to a different product for each job resulting in millions of bottles and a few years ago I got so fed up I moved to just using bleach for basically everything.

I now want something in between, a handful of multi purpose products that work and can be used for every day cleaning but I find myself heading back to the days of lots of products.

Bonus points for natural products safe to use around small children.

Thanks in advance.

I like astonish oven and cookware cleaning paste and elbow grease spray. I used both today to clean the manky cooker hood glass today. Used a microfibre cloth too.

The paste is good for getting burnt food off pots and pans. Also use on my oven door glass with a scourer

White spirit vinegar (200ml), isopropyl alcohol (50ml), couple of drops of washing up liquid, and made up to 500ml with water in a spray bottle. I use it for everything. Cleaning bathroom (great for getting scale off), cleaning kitchen (great for getting grease off), and pretty much everything really.

A few drops of essential oil, or lemon juice can be added to make it smell better if desired.

E cloths.

A good ecloth sees you far.

HG products.

Isopropyl Alcohol 99.9% PURE Isopropanol. I have a lot of stainless steel.

I was always sold on different products, but a few (thousand) tiktoks later and Fairy washing up liquid and white vinegar really does clean most things.
Put into a spray bottle/used with a Dishmatic.
I love the smell of all the 'Method' brand cleaners and still buy occasionally.
Bleach still needed too.

Elbow grease, white vinager and water 50/50, bleach and washing up liquid.

I use Splosh for everything [I bought a load before we moved to France and once it's all gone, it's all gone], one pot of Pink Stuff and I have about 30 microfibre cloths which are all ready to go when needed, all folded into army rolls ready to use.

That's pretty much it to be honest. A bottle of bleach for the toilet once in a blue moon but that's it.

I like stardrops. It’s a multi use product, great for kitchen, bathroom, mirrors, glass, floors, everything really.

I really like the Astonish range of disinfectants which come in an amazing range of fruity and floral scents. My favourite is peach, followed by tropical but the Christmas ones are lovely too. I add them to the water when I wash the floor, use them when I clean the bathroom and also for general cleaning. They really freshen everything up and leave things sparkling. The bundle deals are great value! https://astonish.co.uk/products/concentrated-disinfectant-summer-collection

Lemon Fairy liquid
Ecover multi-purpose kitchen spray
Any kind of pine toilet cleaner
Any kind of window and glass cleaner spray (currently have Mr Muscle)
Any kind of bathroom cleaner spray (currently have Sainsburys)
Mr Sheen polish (gets sticky marks off wood)
Any kind of floor cleaner for wooden floors
Pink Stuff paste
Beeswax wood polish in a jar for the teak furniture, about once a year

Bathroom- Cream cleaner for sinks and shower screen, with a scourer/blue cloth, large antibac wipes for floor and to wipe over the toilet.

Kitchen- antibac spray with soapy wet blue cloth/kitchen roll for work tops, mop and tesco floor cleaner to go over the floor every so often.

Really not that much. My cleaner brings her own products.
I have a spray for kitchen sides which is just any spray they have on offer, I’m not fussy.
A degreaser for the cooker top.
Can of mr Sheen which has been knocking about for a long time!
Bottle of glass spray for the shower screen (again, we’ve had it a fair while, I use the karcher vac thing but just use vinegar first on the windows).
Flash bathroom liquid.