Your Apartment’s Not Really Clean Until You’ve Tried These 15 Cleaning Products
Probably the least fun part of living on your own in an apartment is having to clean it, and yet we all want to come home to a spotless living space. We’ve found 15 cleaning products to help you get your apartment cleaner with less effort.
1. Mattress Cleaning Spray
You probably didn’t think about cleaning your mattress, but it’s actually a pretty good idea. This spray will eliminate odor and kill bacteria your mattress is harboring. If you think about how much time you spend in bed and how much you sweat during the night, it’s actually pretty gross that you haven’t done something to clean your mattress yet.
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2. Silicone Sponge
These sponges are made of environmentally friendly, BPA free, and FDA-approved food-grade silicone which makes it easy to clean. In fact, they’re dishwasher safe because they’re heat resistant! The fact that you can clean these is especially great because these can replace your regular sponges that get gross after a while! It’s always nice to find cleaning products that are useful and good for the environment.
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3. Battery Powered Dish Sponge
If you find that the typical dish sponges just don’t clean your dishes well enough, you might want to give this battery powered dish sponge a try. It’ll significantly reduce how much effort you have to put into scrubbing. It comes with two heads, a brush and a sponge, and can be used not only to wash your dishes but also to clean your sink, car, or even the corners of your shower. This is one of those cleaning products that is versatile and time saving.
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4. Sonic Scrubber
To clean nooks and crannies like behind your faucet, you might want to try this Sonic Scrubber. It’s very similar to the battery powered dish sponge but much smaller so you can really scrub those hard to reach places, like the corners of your counters.
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5. Keurig Cleaner
As wonderful as Keurigs are, they just aren’t always the most cleanly thing. No coffee machine is, and most of us don’t take the time to fully clean them as often as we should. These pods are made by the Keurig company so you know they’re safe for your machine. You should give these a try if you find that the flavor of your drinks is carrying over or if you want to make sure to clear up any build up to not only get your machine clean but also improve the flavor of your drinks and keep your machine in good condition.
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6. Garbage Disposal Pods
Over time, garbage disposals develop a scent as things get stuck in them. There are a few ways you can clean them (safely) at home, but sometimes you need a really good deep clean to fully get rid of the odor and these will do just that! All you do is pop one into your disposal and run it and run the hot water on and off and your whole kitchen will smell like lemon!
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7. Drain Snake
Moving to the bathroom, you might notice that your sink or the drain in your shower are starting to get backed up. This is probably because of a build up of hair and product. You could use a chemical de-clogger, but that’s not a great option especially if you have pets. Instead you might try snaking your drain. This tool looks a little silly but what it will pull out of your drain will both amaze you and gross you out! This is one of those oddly satisfying cleaning products to use.
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8. Disposable Toilet Wand
We can all agree that no chore is worse than having to clean your toilet. It’s gross no matter how frequently you do it, and it’s never an easy job. That’s where this wand comes in! Each head is one use, which isn’t exactly environmentally friendly but is a fair sacrifice to make when it comes to cleaning your toilet. You simply click on a head and go to town scrubbing, then dispose of the head when you’re done!
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9. A Stamp That Automatically Cleans Your Toilet
After cleaning your toilet with that wand, you might consider using this stamp with the power of those cute little scrubbing bubbles! You simply stamp in one of the tablets and it keeps your toilet clean for up to 12 days. When it’s done working, you could use your toilet wand again to make sure it’s fully clean then stamp another one of these bad boys in and get into a routine!
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10. Blind Duster
It’s surprisingly hard to get dust off of blinds. For whatever reason, it just seems to be attracted to them, but regular dusters just seem to push the dust around and out into the air. This one has arms that allow you to dust the tops and bottoms of your blinds at the same time using microfiber cloths to trap in the dust instead of sending it into the air.
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11. Pet Hair Remover
If you have a pet, you that their hair seems to end up literally everywhere. While there are plenty of cleaning products on the market to address this issue, The Lilly Brush is one of the most efficient ones. It may just look like a teasing brush but in reality it’s one of the most effective ways to remove pet hair from fabric surfaces. The bristles are gentle enough to be used on any fabric and the brush will last you for years, unlike a lint roller– and since it acts a lot like a lint roller, you just might find yourself replacing your lint roller with your Lilly Brush, too!
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12. Hard Core Lint Roller
Speaking of lint rollers, this one is actually pretty genius. Unlike the lint rollers we’ve come accustomed to, these ones are reusable. Simply wash them after every use and they’ll regain their stickiness when they’re dry. You can use these to pick up pet hair, too, or to get those cobwebs you can’t quite reach or even to roll under your couch where your vacuum doesn’t quite reach.
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13. Goo Gone
There’s nothing worse than having to slowly pick the price sticker off of something, or scrubbing at residue from tape from when you packed. Goo Gone is one of those cleaning products that’s always handy to have around because you never know when you’re going to need it! It makes taking that price tag off your new water bottle at least ten times as easy.
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14. Cyber Clean
When’s the last time you cleaned your cellphone? Your computer screen? Your tablet? Your remote control? Think about how much time you spend with your electronics and how infrequently you clean them. This sticky goo like substance was specifically designed to clean electronics and kills 99.99% of germs, which probably sounds pretty great when you realize you’ve probably never cleaned your remote control.
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15. Hair Brush Cleaner
Maybe this is a bit particular, but it’s definitely a problem that needed to be solved: how to clean your hairbrush. Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to sit and tug at the hair and lint wrapped around the bristles of your brush? Sure you could replace it, and you will have to eventually, but you can refresh your hair brush quickly with this other brush specifically designed to clean hairbrushes. It’ll remove not only the hair and lint but the product build up, too, making your hairbrush good as new!
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