I should also add that I sold janitorial chemicals for a while, which I bought wholesale from a chemist here in the city who mixed them up himself. That’s where I learned about Dupont Avitex E. Normally, water holds a charge, with the result that anything you wash with a water-based chemical starts electrostatically attracting dust. The more often you wash your monitor screen, for example, the stronger the charge you build up and the faster it attracts dust, causing you to wash it again. Avitex negates the charge, causing dust to to simply fall away. A monitor cleaned with a product which contains Avitex hardly ever needs cleaning. I’d sell glass cleaners with Avitex in them to companies with lots of glass displays, and they’d rave about how everything stayed clean for ages. I got lots of repeat business.
Sadly, I don’t know how you’d go about finding a cleaner with Avitex in it, since companies aren’t in the habit of revealing their s00p3r s3kr1t ingredients.
Everyone keeps saying that this is expensive, but I priced it at Tractor Supply, same size spray cans, were only .75 apart. And if it works, is it really more expensive? If it saves 5 minutes in the first project, the .75 has long since been paid for.
Mine would be Terro ant baits. They actually work. The only product I’ve found that removed the ant problem from my house. We’ve struggled for years with them in the kitchen, every Spring. This year, I got 2 packages of these, and put out one set. When they were empty, I put out one more, which never saw an ant… because there were no more ants in my house. Like magic. One of my coworkers reports a duplicate finding in her apartment from last week.
And Oxyclean (it cleans out an old beer carboy <fermentor> in minutes, with no scrubbing, and ‘nearly sanitizes’ in the process <yes, real sanitize happens at next brewing>).
And Simple Green, different concentrations for different jobs.
And those citrus/pumice hand cleaners that you use after working on the car.
Many police departments use some version of the Glock 9mm as their standard issue pistol. I don’t own any guns, but everyone I know who owns a Glock has nothing but praise for their durability and safety features.
Not really a product, but eating asparagus works really really well for reducing the severity of cold sores and is better than any medication I’ve tried. I used to get these awful ones that lasted for weeks, and now I just eat a couple helpings of asparagus when I feel one coming on and it goes away just about immediately. Weirdly, the prenatal vitamins I’m taking have the same effect (even a little better), though I haven’t looked into what they have in common.
Takes Blistex and Chap Stick out back and effortlessly beats them to a waxy smear. It’s much less unpleasant on your lips, a tin of the stuff lasts and lasts and lasts, and it’s so good it will actually UNCHAP your already-chapped lips.
Yes! My old cat doesn’t always make it into the box, and the smell can get really overwhelming really fast in our tiny laundry room. Just a couple of spritzes and the smell is gone.
Nothing new to add here. Just hoping that my voice will push whoever is on the fence about Rain-X, Magic Eraser, and OxyClean.
I’m the laziest person you’ll ever meet, but I actually enjoy using those products because they work so well. In my previous apartment, I cleaned my bathtub weekly with various products, and assumed it was supposed to be off-white. Then I bought a Magic Eraser.
I love the Magic Eraser, because it doesn’t look like it’s going to do anything, it looks completely benign. Then it, well, magically erases the scuff marks on my kitchen floor from the chairs, when nothing else would.
I also love the sweater stone & Rain-X. I convinced my husband to get the Rain-X rinse when we went through a car wash awhile back, he thought it was bunk. Then it started raining about 10 minutes later, and I was quite smug about the lovely sheets of water just falling off the car.
