Just in time for the holidays, Real Simple online has introduced a new, interative guide to common stains and how to remove them. Stains are organized as follows:
Arts & Crafts
Beauty & Health
Home & Nature
Sauce & Condiment
Drink & Dessert
Simply click on the stain and steps for removing them appear. The guidelines look a bit “sponsor” driven, [...]
Thanksgiving is a time not only to reflect on all that is good but ALSO to tackle cleaning chores requiring extra consideration–say “leaf stains” on the concrete patio for instance.
Prior to our final fall clean-up, wet leaves had stood long enough on our concrete-clad patio to produce a series of leaf imprints. Clean+istry believes that [...]
While shopping (you remember how to do that, don’t you?) for Thanksgiving, keep these 5 essential cleaning items for the holidays close by. Yes, we can all pick up an extra bottle of liquid dish washing detergent, but some things can slip our minds.
First, have tons of extra kitchen towels on hand. The Organic Flour [...]
Hmmm, it’s Thursday, so here’s an idea…let’s blog The New York Times Home & Garden. We’ve trolled today’s paper and found a couple of maintenance-related items of interest.
First off is a conversation with contractor Stephen Fanuka (Shopping for Renovation Materials With Stephen Fanuka) about materials used in high-end Manhattan jobs. He makes an excellent point [...]
B_E_E_ (stands for Beauty Engineered for Ever) is a New Zealand based company committed to developing cleaning products that not only clean well, but excel “environmentally, ethically, and sensually.” Who could argue with that?
We like the packaging. Correction: we LOVE the packaging. For some time, Clean+istry has labeled all of our [...]
Get rid of grass stains and control dish clutter with the help of SimpleHuman (makers of stainless steel trash cans and the like).
We were drawn to the visual, but the highly natural-looking grass stain removal tip looks pretty interesting. So, we’re reprinting it here:
First, lightly brush off any remaining grass fibers or dirt.
Mix paste: [...]
Cleaning Ultrasuede® fabric used for furniture upholstery is easy, clearly falling into the ‘carefree’ category of care and maintenance. That’s good, because we LOVE this chair by the design firm Cate & Nelson recently shown at ICFF in New York.
Perfect for interiors with a fear of commitment, the chair is a giant swatch book. [...]
Clean grill masters are always tastefully accessorized. This is mostly true.
How do 99.9% of grilling spills occur? Insufficiently gloved grill masters of course. Avoid quick retreat of the hand from a roaring fire with the suede cowhide mitt. It is naturally flame resistant and provides extra length (and protection) for the [...]
All of the glass used to make Vetrazzo is recycled (about 85% of the final weight). The largest proportion of it comes from curbside recycling programs. Other glass comes from post industrial usage, windows, dinnerware, stemware, automotive windshields, stained glass, laboratory glass, reclaimed glass from building demolition…
In other words, you break it, it may [...]
Clean+istry is human, sort of, and guilty of using shorthand in referencing the composition of household cleaners.
For instance, we frequently point you in the direction of a “pH neutral” dishwashing detergent. This perfectly illustrates the type of maddening instruction that led to the birth of Clean+istry in the first place.
A simple understanding of the [...]