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Seasonal Tips for Clean, Safe Air

Indoor air quality may be invisible, but it still has an impact on your family’s health and your home safety. Levels of many pollutants can be far higher indoors than they are outdoors — and indoor pollutants can seriously affect your health. Major factors impacting indoor air quality and home safety are air circulation and moisture levels.

Cleaning Products You Should NEVER Mix

When you’re faced with a tough cleaning job, it’s easy to get frustrated — and tempting to get creative with how you combat it. But before you reach for every cleaning product under your sink and start playing chemist, please just don’t.

“People often think that if one product works, mixing it with another one will make it even better,” says Carolyn Forte, director of the Cleaning Lab at the Good Housekeeping Institute.

It’s Shocking How Much Dirt Some Vacuum Miss

Perhaps this has happened to you: You’ve lived with carpeting, then for one reason or another you live with hardwood or some other type of hard surface flooring that shows up every little bit of dust and dirt. You can’t believe it! You can sweep or vacuum one day and by the next morning, the dust and dirt have returned.

Of course we think that some new dirt- and dust-producing thing has mysteriously descended on our living space, but the truth is it’s the same dust and dirt that has always been present only now we can see it.

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