Cleaning Sprays

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Do we really need all those cleaning sprays?

Have a peek in anyone?s cupboard under the sink (ask first or it can get a bit weird) and you?re bound to find a clutch of cleaning sprays and products. The marketing often says they?re designed for certain rooms and do specific jobs.

But listener Alice wants to know if we really need different sprays for our bathrooms and kitchens. Will soap and water do the same job, and what about supermarket own-brand products? She?s also keen to know about the cleaning properties of natural products like vinegar?and what about the concentrated versions that allow you to add your own water?

Greg and Alice are joined by Dr Sally Bloomfield from the International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene, as well as TV?s ?Queen of Clean?, Lynsey Crombie, to run the science through the evidence mill.

All our investigations start with YOUR suggestions. If you've seen an ad, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, email us at [email protected] OR send a voicenote to our WhatsApp number 07543 306807

PRESENTER: GREG FOOT PRODUCER: SIMON HOBAN

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder.
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0:28.0	To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires. Live, forward slash fringe.
0:34.4	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts.
0:44.6	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates the wonder products promising to make you happier, healthier or greener.
0:47.6	Each episode, I run one of your suggested wonder products through the evidence mill
0:51.0	to find out it is indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS.
0:55.6	And this week I'm joined by Alice Kemp from London.
1:01.6	Hello Alice.
1:02.5	Hello. Welcome to the studio.
1:04.1	Thank you.
1:04.6	Tell us the wonder product that you'd like us to investigate.
1:07.0	Okay, so it's surface cleaners.
1:08.9	Those things that we spray on the surface after we've been chopping something. And I'm interested to know, are the surface cleaners that you buy and spray on any better than just using water or washing up liquid or something like diluted bleach? Yeah, because there are countless types, different types for different surfaces,
1:28.4	kitchen, bathroom, hob, glass.
1:31.7	Some say they disinfect.
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