Hey! Psst! Yes you!

Can I let you in on a little secret?

The secret to a properly clean home isn’t having a cupboard that looks like a chemistry lab. It’s knowing which products actually work and which ones are just expensive liquid in fancy bottles.

We’re counting down the 10 products that are the real stars of home cleaning.

10. White Vinegar – the friend that always picks up when you call!

Listen, I know it smells like a chip shop explosion, but this humble bottle is basically liquid magic. Limescale? Gone. Greasy fingerprints on the hob? Vanished. Windows that actually sparkle instead of just moving the dirt around? Sorted just like that! BISH BASH BOSH!

Mix it 50/50 with water in a spray bottle, and you’ve got an all-purpose cleaner that costs about 30p and puts those £4 branded sprays to shame.

9. Bicarbonate of Soda – The type of snow even Pablo Escobar cant compete with!

This isn’t just for Victoria sponges, people. Sprinkle it on your sink, leave it for 10 minutes while you make a cuppa, then scrub gently. Stains disappear like they were never there. It’s the secret to keeping your steel stainless!

8. Cleaning paste (The Pink Stuff or Astonish)

Don’t let the cheeky name fool you! This little tub of magic is serious business. I’ve seen it remove marks from walls that I’d given up on, bring burned pans back from the dead, and make my cooker hob look like it did when I first moved in. Keep a tub handy; you’ll thank me later. Mwah! Chefs kiss!

7. Zoflora Concentrated Disinfectant

This is the cleaning product equivalent of a Swiss Army knife. One capful in a spray bottle gives you a disinfectant that actually smells like you want to breathe it in. Mountain Air, Linen Fresh, Springtime take your pick. Your surfaces get sanitised, and your house is left smelling like a spa.

6. Flash Bathroom Spray

Some things are classics for a reason. This cuts through soap scum like a hot knife through butter. Spray it on, go make yourself a sandwich, come back, and wipe. The pink mould that’s been plotting world domination in your shower corner? Consider it evicted.

5. Fairy Liquid Original

Plot twist: this isn’t just for washing up. A tiny drop on a cloth tackles kitchen grease that laughs in the face of other cleaners. Got an oil stain on your favourite shirt? Dab some Fairy on it before washing. It’s like having a tiny green superhero in a bottle.

4. Microfibre Cloths

Here’s the thing about microfibre cloths: they’re basically cheating, but the good kind. They grab dust and dirt like tiny magnets and trap it instead of just pushing it around. Buy different colours for different rooms—trust me, you don’t want to mix up your kitchen and bathroom cloths.

3. Ecover All-Purpose Cleaner

For when you want something that works brilliantly but doesn’t make your house smell like a swimming pool changing room. Plant-based, effective, and comes in scents that won’t give you a headache. It’s the cleaning product equivalent of a well-behaved dinner guest.

2. Mr. Sheen Multi-Surface Polish

This compact bottle of wonder makes everything shiny without that horrible sticky residue some polishes leave behind. Wood, glass, stainless steel; it handles them all with the confidence of someone who knows exactly what they’re doing.

1. Dettol Anti-Bacterial Surface Cleanser. BOOM!

Sometimes you need the big guns, and this is them. Door handles, light switches, remote controls—all those things everyone touches but nobody thinks to clean. If there’s anything we learnt from the Covid era, it’s that you don’t just clean you disinfect! Quick spray, quick wipe, germs gone. It’s like having a bouncer for bacteria.

Now go forth and transform your space!

Lots of love,

Your Chief Cleaning Enthusiast