Hey Beefriends! I hope y'all are having a good day out there in the Hive. I have a little review for you today of a new no-waste product I tried: Blueland multi-surface cleaner.
They make all sorts of cleaning products, but this is the first one I've tried, so I can only speak to the multi-surface cleaner. Basically, you get a permanent bottle and tablets. You fill the bottle with warm water and drop in a tablet, and it dissolves, and that's your cleaner! The tablet wrapper says it's compostable, but I wasn't sure if that meant only-in-a-city-compost or if I could do it in my home compost buckets (because it looks like a metallic coating on the inside?), so I emailed them to find out (I just did that tonight, though, so I don't have an answer yet). The bottle came in a cardboard box, which can easily be recycled or composted since it doesn't have that shiny-coating that cardboard sometimes has that means that you can't put it in the compost.
ready to drop in the tablet
The initial kit just for the multi-surface cleaner comes with the bottle and three tablets. One tablet is one whole bottle of cleaner, and it takes me a while to go through a bottle of cleaner, so that should last me a while! It smells really nice, too: a lemon scent that's not too overpowering. And eco-friendly ingredients. From their site: "Made without any triclosan, parabens, phosphates, ammonia, chlorine bleach, phthalates, or VOCs. Certified Platinum Material Health by Cradle to Cradle, EPA Safer Choice, USDA BioPreferred, Leaping Bunny (cruelty free)."
So I decided to put it to the ultimate test: my hella dirty stove. No, I'm not going to tell you how long it's looked like that. This was for science! Yeah. I made that mess and neglected to clean for science. ;)
Verdict: wow! It worked really well. You know how stoves get a greasy kind of buildup, especially on the back where the knobs are? No problem getting it clean at all. This stuff actually worked better than some other, more toxic cleaners I've used in the past.
Ta-da! And no, I didn't clean the catch trays under the burners; I run those through the dishwasher periodically, lol. So don't count those in your assessment.
So, I do recommend this product, not only for its no-waste and eco-friendly properties, but because it works!
And no, I am not getting paid to do a review or anything; this is just my opinion and experience trying it (no, the link at the top isn't a referral link, either, it's just the link to their site).
fully dissolved tablet
Update on previous experiment:
I have used my homemade laundry soap now, and a) it worked pretty well! but also b) now I see why they say to put the bar of soap through a grater (whereas I smashed mine with a hammer instead). Some of the chunks of soap were too big and didn't fully dissolve in the wash. So, smaller soap flakes are needed, but oh, well! It was an experiment, after all! Still got my fabrics clean. :)
Thanks for reading, beefriends! <3
