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If your parents and grandparents taught you how to clean, their best practices may no longer be best given today’s innovations in cleaning products and appliances. We debunk some cleaning myths.
Don't be the messy roommate! Along with moving into a dorm room comes the need to keep it clean. Learn the basics, from a step-by-step guide on laundry to cleaning for infection prevention to stay healthy this school year.
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CLEANING CHECKLIST
ROOM FEATURES:
Door handles
Clean Disinfect
Light switches
Clean Disinfect
Floors
Vacuum or sweep, starting from the
farthest corner and working toward
the exit.
Bed Mattress
Vacuum and clean, consider disinfecting
to get rid of dust mites, then top with a
mattress cover and sheets.
#DYK
Clean to remove dirt from the surface,
using an all-purpose cleaner or soap
and water.
Disinfect to kill germs.
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Set a good example
by washing your
own hands often
and properly.
Teach kids to wash
their hands for at
least 20 seconds,
rinsing and drying
completely.
Tell kids when to wash,
such as after using the
bathroom, before eating
and after touching
animals, blowing your
nose, coughing and
sneezing.
Keep alcohol-based
hand sanitizers, gels or
antibacterial wipes on
hand when soap and
water are unavailable.
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One of the most important things to remember when dusting is to spray the cleaner onto a cloth or sponge first instead of spraying the furniture directly so that dust doesn’t get airborne. Wipes and other non-spray products also are available. When you dust, start from the highest points in the room and work your way down, so that when the dust falls as you clean, you don’t have to re-dust. Get more dusting tips.
From her many jobs as cook, cleaner, grocery shopper, chauffeur and social director, mom typically receives just one day off a year - Mother's Day.
In a 2000 national survey by American Cleaning Institute, 82 percent of moms said that they would like to see the housework vacation that they enjoy on Mother's Day happen more often.
"Today's mothers have to juggle so many more responsibilities than they did when the first Mother's Day was celebrated in…
Issues, Perceptions, Regulations,
and Legislation Associated with
Cleaning Product Ingredients
in Graywater
Final Report
April 1996
05821-006-001
ISSUES, PERCEPTIONS, REGULATIONS, AND LEGISLATION
ASSOCIATED WITH CLEANING PRODUCT INGREDIENTS IN GRAYWATER
FINAL REPORT
Prepared for:
The Soap and Detergent Association
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Cleaning to Control
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American Cleaning Institute • www.cleaninginstitute.org • info@cleaninginstitute.org
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Cleaning to Control ALLERGIES and ASTHMA
If you or your child have allergies or asthma, you already know that many things can
bring on, or “trigger,” an asthma flare or episode. Some…
You use your cell phone every day. It goes from your pocket or purse to your face. You hand it to your kid to play a game, take it into the bathroom with you and leave it by your bed at night. And everywhere your phone goes, germs follow. In fact, a recent study found that phones have, on average, 10X more bacteria than most toilet seats. Ewww!
Wash your hands before using your phone to minimize grime and germs. In addition, here are some simple tips…