Kitchen Cleaning Gear & Recommendations

📍 Intro

You’ll use kitchen cleaning gear more often than almost anything else in your house. It’s worth ensuring that you have what you need to GSD (get stuff done). 

🧹 Suggested Gear:  

• Kitchen towels (for drying hands & dishes)

• Bar mop towels (for wiping surfaces & cleaning)

• Sponges (soft, medium & abrasive) 

• Soap (natural is easier on hands) 

• All-purpose spray 

• Mild abrasive cleaner (or baking soda)

• Rubber gloves (optional)

• Dishwasher detergent & rinse aid (optional)

• Drying rack or mat (optional) 

 📝 Notes, Tips, Tricks: 

• Store gear in a bin under the sink for easy access; keep away from food items 

• A “sink station” includes sponges in a mounted holder or on a dish, brushes, gloves, & soap in a pump bottle

🛒Product Recommendations*

• Soft sponge: Splurge

• Medium sponge: Investment

• Scrubber: Budget

• Dish soap: Budget; Eco/Green; Stylish

• All-purpose spray: Eco/Green

• Abrasive cleaner: Budget

• Kitchen towels: Splurge 1, 2

• Bar mop towels: Budget; Splurge

• Dish-drying mat: Budget

 🎓 Further Studies: 

• Cleaning Your Home: Good. Accidentally Poisoning Yourself: Bad. [NYTimes] 

• 8 Homemade Cleaners That Actually Work, According to Our Cleaning Expert [Good Housekeeping]

• 11 Products that Make Doing the Dishes Less of a Chore

• 10 Dish Drying Racks

*Note - none of these products are sponsored. Nor do we receive referral revenue.