There are so many cleaning products to choose from, whether you’re looking for an all-purpose cleaner or something to polish your wood furniture with. It can be daunting trying to weed through all of the options to find the best products, so we’ve compiled a list of our favorite tried-and-true cleaning products.
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1. Sprayway Foaming Glass Cleaner
Windex, WHO? Sprayway is dominating the glass cleaning game. The spray’s foamy composition delivers a streak-free shine. You can find the glass cleaner in its “original” scent, lavender or lemon, but our personal favorite is lemon.
2. Method Daily Granite Cleaner
$7 on Amazon
This might be the best-smelling cleaning product we’ve ever encountered. The “Apple Orchard” scent stays true to its name, and when you use this spray with a microfiber cloth, it gets your granite countertops clean and shiny.
3. Young Living Thieves Household Cleaner
$39 on Amazon
Shop NowThis plant-based cleaner is entirely elite. Made by essential oil brand Young Living, the Thieves cleaner smells incredible thanks to its blend of clove, lemon, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus, and rosemary oils — plus it delivers all the unique cleaning and disinfecting properties of each of those oils.
4. Scrub Mommy Sponge
$14 for 3 on Amazon
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Scrub Mommy is a queen. This lovely lady is a sponge like no other, and she’ll help you through the toughest messes. Sometimes you really do just need your Mommy.
5. The Pink Stuff Miracle Cleaning Paste
$5 on Amazon
Nail polish on your kitchen table? Grime on your doors? The Pink Stuff’s Miracle Cleaning Paste has gotten us through some tough times, er, messes.
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6. Rubbermaid Reveal Power Scrubber
$17 on Amazon
This tool is great for cleaning grout or getting into hard-to-reach spots like the backside of faucets. An electric toothbrush is another hack we’ve used in place of this bad boy.
7. O’Cedar Easy Wring Spin Mop
$35 on Amazon
If you don’t have this mop, please do yourself a favor and get it immediately. Come back and tell us how it changed your life. We are loyal to the spin mop permanently.
8. Sprayway Furniture Polish
$19 for 6 on Amazon
Window cleaner might be what Sprayway burst onto the scene with, but they have other products that are great too. We love using their furniture polish to clean and polish wood.
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9. Whink Rust Stain Remover
$9 on Amazon
There is no better rust stain remover than Whink and nothing or no one will ever change our minds.
10. Folex Instant Carpet Spot Remover
$7 on Amazon
This is a must-have if you have carpets in your house. Trust us.
11. Angry Mama Microwave Cleaner
$8 on Amazon
There simply is not a more adorable and effective way to clean your microwave. Angry Mama has our heart.
12. Bar Keepers Friend Soft Cleanser
$3 at Target
The O.G. Bar Keepers Friend will always be a stalwart in our cleaning cabinet, but the soft cleanser is a great multi-purpose cleaner to have on hand too.
13. Glisten Garbage Disposal Cleaner
$4 on Amazon
This stuff cleans your garbage disposal like a champ and it’s also pretty entertaining to use. You get to watch the sink fill with foamy blue suds, then see it get sucked back down the drain right before your eyes.
14. Super Clean Tough Task Cleaner-Degreaser
$6 at Walmart
This stuff is a game changer if you’re faced with tough messes, like grease splatters on the cover or outer parts of your grill.
15. Pine-Sol Multi Surface Cleaner
$11 on Amazon
This is hands down our favorite product to pour into our spin mop bucket before adding water. It gets the floors clean and it makes the whole house smell good.
16. Damp Duster Sponge
$10 for 4 on Amazon
The damp duster sponge is such a good way to dust things with grooves, like air vents. This is a must-have.
17. Bissell Little Green Carpet Cleaner
$124 on Amazon
If you have pets, this little carpet cleaner will be your new BFF. It sucks messes out of your carpet or furniture and shampoos all at once. Handy gadget.
18. ChomChom Roller
$25 on Amazon
Th ChomChom Roller basically eats the pet hair off your furniture for you. Nifty indeed.
19. Sprayway Outdoor Glass Cleaner
$10 at Menards
Sprayway does it again. This guy hooks right to the end of your hose so you can spray your outdoor windows and clean them with ease. A summertime must!
20. Hiware Blind Duster Brush
$7 on Amazon
Something to make the mundane task of dusting blinds easier? Yes please.
21. Scotch-Brite Swift Scrub Tub & Shower Wand
$10 on Amazon
This gadget can scrub through soap scum like it’s nothing. The handle is particularly helpful here.
22. Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner Gel with Hydrogen Peroxide
$3 on Amazon
It’s gotta be the Hydrogen Peroxide version, folks. This stuff gets the job done like nothing else can.
23. Dawn Powerwash
$5 at Target
This might be the most appropriately named cleaning product of all time. This spray cuts through messes similar to how a power washer does. Pro tip: It also kills ants with just one spray.
24. Wet & Forget Shower Cleaner
$21 on Amazon
Think of Wet & Forget as shower maintenance. Spray it in your shower once a week to scale back on soap scum and buildup. Works like a charm.
25. Therapy Stainless Steel Cleaner and Polish
$7 at Target
Fight back against fingerprints on your stainless steel appliances with Therapy spray. This stuff is our go-to for stainless steel.
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