No matter what your next step is, you’ll always want to clean the surface first. If you skip this part, a sanitizer or ...

As we muddle through another flu season, keeping things clean remains an effective way to stay healthy. But cleaning alone isn’t always enough when it comes to the microscopic germs that can make us ...

There's a time and a place for each option. When it’s time to clean your home—especially kitchens and bathrooms—you want to ...

For the most part, scrubbing with soap and water or using an all-purpose spray is enough to clean your home. But some jobs call for stronger products, like getting rid of germs after someone is sick.

Potentially harmful bacteria can survive on endoscopes used to examine the interior of the digestive tract, despite a multi-step cleaning and disinfecting process, according to a study published in ...

Yoga mats are one of the most commonly used pieces of workout equipment. Whether you have your own or use one at your local gym, it’s important to know how to keep yoga mats clean and free of bacteria ...

When old food packaging, discarded children's toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny bits of ...

Even if you think you clean your toilet well, you might not be cleaning it often enough. Some of the most advertised toilet cleaners could be doing your pipes damage and fostering rust and limescale.

You probably brush your teeth every day to keep them clean. You should clean your toothbrush regularly, too. Read on to learn how to disinfect your toothbrush and keep it clean. Your mouth is home to ...

A bottle of bacterial spores is not what you’d expect to find in the home care aisle of your local supermarket. But live microbes are the hot ingredient in the cleaning product industry right now. Of ...

To keep your home clean, you need to think in germ terms. Sometimes a general cleaning with a milder product will usually do the job well enough. At other times and in grimier areas, you’ll need to ...

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...