
32 Magical Cleaning Products For Effortless Results
A set of three scrubbing attachments you can put on any regular drill because no one wants achy arms and back pain from scrubbing hard-to-reach corners in the hopes that the lil' bit of mold will uncling itself from your shower tiles. This handy device makes it so that you don't actually have to do any scrubbing yourself — just stand back and watch as this tool does the painful chore for you! Even Hermione Granger would have to admit that this is basically magic. 🪄
An overnight tank cleaner that can rid your tank of the gunk and mold that have been accumulating over months (ahem, or years) of neglect. Trying to clean out the tank by hand is A) disgusting and B) despised — so just pour in the cleaner and go back to whippin' up your dinner. Your toilet will be clean by the time you wake up the next morning!
And a pumice stone for those who have neglected their toilet for just a tad too long and don't feel like wasting an entire day trying to figure out how to properly clean it. This makes the dirty chore a much easier task as it finally vanishes the ring of rust that has taken residence in your toilet.
A ChomChom pet hair remover roller to save your furniture from the unspeakable amount of shedding your furry bestie (I'm looking at you Crookshanks 👀) leaves behind in their wake. All you have to do is empty the roller when it's full, and it's good to go — no wasteful sticky pads required!
A microfiber spin mop for those who aspire to have floors clean enough that you can basically eat off them. It has a specially designed microfiber head mop that will easily and effectively pick up dirt without needing to use half the bottle of Fabuloso. It even has a built-in wringer and splash guard so that those droplets of dirty water don't splatter across your freshly cleaned tiles!
A nontoxic leather conditioner to bring back that shine on your favorite leather reading couch. All you need is a thin spread of this conditioner, and your couch will come back to life. Now you can curl into your cozy chair and go back to your current reread of The Half Blood Prince — no matter how many times you read it, you always tense up during the Astronomy Tower scene (IYKYK).
A handheld allergen vacuum with a sanitizing UV light and bacteria-blasting, steam-free heat technology so your upholstery looks better than the day you bought it. Best vacuum ever? You'll absolutely swear so when you finally get to use this bad boy.
A water-based alkaline wood cleaner that'll bring some shine to those worn cabinets that seemingly keep fading each and every day. No, you don't need to replace that wooden dining table that has suffered numerous dings and dents over the years — simply use this polish on a regular basis to keep your wood hydrated.
The Baseboard Buddy — a pain-saving gadget with a 360-degree swivel so you're not getting down on your hands and knees or stretching as high as you can to reach those hard-to-clean surfaces and corners. Don't let those dust bunnies accumulate on your baseboard to the point that your home resembles that of a haunted house — this adjustable handle will make the chore easy and quick to do before people notice just how dusty your home tends to get. House elves are not required.
And for the surfaces you can't reach on your tippy toes, an extendable microfiber duster set that can reach up to 5 feet to get rid of the little flecks of dust that litter your ceiling fan (without needing to cast "Wingardium Leviosa"). It can rotate and bend at different angles — plus, you can simply toss the removable head into the wash and reuse it!
An adjustable duster brush you can use to extract the layers of dust that coat your blinds, air-conditioner vents, and any of those other narrow, hard-to-reach areas, because you've never even contemplated cleaning something as unassuming as window blinds. Plus, when you're ready to clean 'em, you can just pop the cloth off and toss it into the wash.
A scratch-free scraper because sometimes the hardest spots to clean are also the tiniest. This will safely tidy up the dirty details around the corners and crevices of your sink, stove, shower, and countertops.
And a cooktop cleaning kit to brighten up your stovetop from the remnants of food that have been on your range for the last few months. Don't use a bucket of baking soda and other DIY remedies in an attempt to bring back the previous shine — just use this kit, which includes a cooktop cleaning solution, a scrubbing pad, and a scraper so you can absolutely remove every bit of grime.
A foaming garbage disposal cleaner that'll bubble up like a potion concocted in Professor Snape's class to help remove and prevent smelly buildup. Just drop the whole packet in and let the suds wash away the odor that's been building up in your kitchen for weeks.
A mold and mildew-removing gel because the last thing you want to do on your day off is sprain a wrist trying to scrub out the pinkish mold from that long-neglected bathroom tile. Just apply, wait 15 seconds, and watch the mold disappear. Lazy cleaners everywhere rejoice because this will make the chore of cleaning the bathroom that you hate so much a much easier task!
A touchless vacuum so you don't have to use a dustpan to physically scoop up the crumbs, dust, and hair that you just swept up into a pile. It has infrared sensors that will activate the vacuum automatically to remove dust, dirt, and debris as you sweep toward it.
A drain clog remover because you need a way to clean up that ~hairy~ situation in your bathroom. The tiny hooks reach deeeeep into your drain to lift away all the strands that slyther-in and get stuck inside your pipe, so you won't have to try reaching down there yourself...ew.
A fabric defuzzer you can simply glide over areas with pilling or those unwanted fuzzies that pile up on your furniture and clothes. Now, you can smooth out your favorite seating chair without manually pulling each and every piece of fuzz — a task literally no one wants to do.
A watermark remover cloth to vanish those marks left behind by water, alcohol, and heat — your beautiful wood coffee table is now saved from your fave mug of hot cocoa!
A Goo Gone kitchen degreaser you'll find yourself using on all of your fave appliances to take off that sticky, gross gunk that's been slowly piling up all over your kitchen. A messy, sticky kitchen is awful, but at least now, the whole cleaning thing will be easier.
A pack of duster sponges perfect for picking up the dust bunnies that coat the top of your dining table. Just wet it, use it to trap all the dust (so that none goes flying), and wash it down the drain. Now you can pick up all the dust much quicker than the old wet-a-napkin and try-to-scoop-it-up method you've been using for yearssss.
A tub of the bestselling Pink Stuff you'll want to keep on hand when your kiddos start scribbling all over your walls. Don't put your all into scrubbing those doors — all you need to do is coat this stuff on any stains and simply wipe it away. This works on just about everything — bathtubs, faucets, stovetops, tennis shoes, walls covered in crayon. Everything.
A jetted tub cleaner designed to wash away all of the yucky gunk and body oil that has piled up over years and years of bathing. Just run your water, pour in this cleaner, and run your jets. Yuck, be gone! The Golden Trio wish they had this for the prefect's bathroom.
A Chomp! stain remover you can pour over any stain in your concrete or brick driveway to restore your outdoor space after your car leaks oil. All you need to do is pour this solution over the stain, let it dry for a few minutes, and then simply brush it away — voila!
Bioclean, a hard water stain remover for those droplets of water that Do. Not. Budge. If you're tired of Googling homemade cleaning recipes and scrubbing the putrid vinegar and baking soda concoction all over your shower door, this stain remover is for you. Your overnight guests will be practically hounding you for the secret to your ✨magically✨ sparkling shower.
A Bissell CleanView bagless vacuum with a specialized brush roll that will suck up all of your frustrations (in other words: lots of hair) from the embrace of your favorite rug or hard floors. Plus, it has an easy-to-empty tank so that you don't ever have to touch the icky stuff that accumulates after a few sweeps around your home.
Or a Eufy robot mop and vacuum because it's like having a live-in maid who takes up the most tedious of home chores. This baby vacuums, mops, and can be controlled through an app on your phone, so you can have clean floors and rugs from the comfort of your couch without ever needing to pause The Goblet of Fire.
An Iron Out rust stain remover that'll literally cling onto the stain, so you don't actually need to scrub (which, let's be honest, you hate more than anything). You'll be so freaking happy, you might actually shed tears of joy.
A TikTok-approved Levoit air purifier so you're not having to pick up a duster every single week. This machine has a HEPA filter, so it'll help collect the rogue dust, pollen, and pet dander that your mom keeps finding clumps of in the corner of your room after you literally just cleaned. Literally. Magic.
A pack of dishwasher cleaning tablets that you can just toss into the machine to clean up all of the gunk and odor-causing residue that can buildup over the course of a few months (or years). Your dishes will come out of the wash looking much cleaner after using one of these tablets.
Dawn Powerwash, a magical spray-on dish soap you'll blast across your dishes so that your friends don't see the pile-up of grime and grease you left behind in your sink. It even works on backsplashes, greasy range hoods, or that backyard grill you haven't cleaned since last summer.
You, when you see how easy cleaning can be:
Hashtags

Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles


Boston Globe
3 days ago
- Boston Globe
Tear it down, they said. He just kept building.
Advertisement From the ninth floor, he surveyed the sturdy, standardized apartment buildings in the distance where his neighbors live. 'They say the house is shabby, that it could be blown down by wind at any time,' he said — an observation that did not seem altogether far-fetched when I visited him last month. 'But the advantage is that it's conspicuous, a bit eye-catching. People admire it,' he added. 'Other people spend millions, and no one goes to look at their houses.' Chen's house is so unusual that it has lured gawkers and even tourists to his rural corner of Guizhou province, in southwestern China. It evokes a Dr. Seuss drawing, or the Burrow in 'Harry Potter.' Many people on Chinese social media have compared it to 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Advertisement To the casual observer, the house may be a mere spectacle, a Frankensteinian oddity. To Chen, it is a monument to his determination to live where — and how — he wants, in defiance of the local government, gossiping neighbors and seemingly even common sense. He began modifying his family home in 2018, when the authorities in the city of Xingyi ordered his village demolished to make way for a resort they planned to build. Chen's parents, farmers who had built the house in the 1980s, thought that the money that officials were offering as compensation for the move was too low and refused to leave. When bulldozers began razing their pomegranate trees anyway, Chen rushed home from Hangzhou, the eastern city where he had been working as a package courier. Along with his brother, Chen Tianliang, he started adding a third floor. At first, the motivation was in part practical: Compensation payment was determined by square footage, and if the house had more floors, they would be entitled to more money. They visited a secondhand building materials market and bought old utility poles and red composite boards — cheaper than the black ones — and hammered, screwed and notched them together into floorboards, walls and supporting columns. Then, Chen, who had long had an amateur interest in architecture, wondered what it would be like to add a fourth floor. His brother and parents thought there was no need, so Chen did it alone. Then, he wondered about a fifth. And a sixth. 'I just suddenly wanted to challenge myself,' he said. 'And every time I completed my own small task or dream, it felt meaningful.' Advertisement He was also fueled by resentment toward the government, which kept serving him with demolition orders and sending officials to pressure his family. By that point, their house was virtually the only one left in the vicinity; his neighbors had all moved into the new apartment buildings about 3 miles away. (Local officials have maintained to Chinese media that the building is illegal.) Mass expropriations of land, at times by force, have been a widespread phenomenon in China for decades amid the country's modernization push. The homes of those who do manage to hold out are sometimes called 'nail houses,' for how they protrude like nails after the area around them has been cleared. Still, few stick out quite like Chen's. A former mathematics major who dropped out of university because he felt that higher education was pointless, Chen spent years bouncing between cities, working as a calligraphy salesperson, insurance agent and courier. But he yearned for a more pastoral lifestyle, he said. When he returned to the village in 2018 to help his parents fend off the developers, he decided to stay. 'I don't want my home to become a city. I feel like a guardian of the village,' he said, over noodles with homegrown vegetables that his mother had stir-fried on their traditional brick stove. In recent years, the threat of demolition has become less immediate. Chen filed a lawsuit against the local government and the developers, which is still pending. In any case, the proposed resort project stalled after the local government ran out of money. (Guizhou, one of China's poorest and most indebted provinces, is littered with extravagant, unfinished tourism projects.) Advertisement But Chen has continued building. The house is now a constantly evolving display of his interests and hobbies. On the first floor, Chen hung calligraphy from artists he befriended in Hangzhou. On the fifth, he keeps a pile of faded books, mostly about history, philosophy and psychology. The sixth floor has potted plants and a plank of wood suspended from the ceiling with ropes, like a swing, to hold a mortar and pestle and a teakettle. On the eighth, a gift from an art student who once visited him: a lamp, with the shade made of tiny photographs of his house from different angles. With each floor that he added, he moved his bedroom up, too: 'That's what makes it fun.' (His parents and brother sleep on the ground floor and rarely make the vertiginous ascent.) Each morning, he inspects the house from top to bottom. To reinforce the fourth and fifth floors, he hauled wooden columns up through the windows with pulleys. He added the buckets of water throughout the house after a storm blew out a fifth-floor wall. Eventually, he tore down most of the walls on the lower floors, so that wind could pass straight through the structure. 'There's a law of increasing entropy,' Chen said. 'This house, if I didn't care for it, would naturally collapse in two years at most.' He added, 'But as long as I'm still standing, it will be too.' Maintenance costs more time than money, he said. He estimated that he had spent a little more than $20,000 on building materials. He has also spent about $4,000 on lawyers. His family has been, if not enthusiastic about, at least resigned to Chen's whims. His parents are accustomed to curious visitors, at least a few every weekend. His brother came up with the idea of illuminating the house at night with lanterns. They have all united against their fellow villagers, who they say accuse them of being nuisances, or greedy. Advertisement 'Now we just don't go over there,' said Tianliang, Chen's brother. 'There's no need to listen to what they say about us.' In town, some residents said exactly what the Chens predicted they would: that the house would collapse any day; that they were troublemakers. (The local government erected a sign near the house warning of safety hazards.) But others expressed admiration for Chen's creativity. Zhu Zhiyuan, an employee at a local supermarket, said he had been drawn in when passing by on his scooter and had ventured closer for a better look. Still, he had not dared get too close. 'There are people who say it's illegal,' he said. Then he added, 'But if they tore it down, that would be a bit of a shame.' This article originally appeared in


The Onion
4 days ago
- The Onion
Tips For Getting Kids Interested In Reading
Studies show that children who read for pleasure perform better on tests and suffer from fewer mental health problems. Here are some tips for fostering a love of reading: Make time every day to read the neighbor's mail as a family. Emit a high-pitched noise every time they're not reading. Use a marker to retitle every book in your home Roblox Tips . Give each letter of the alphabet a corresponding sound to be made with the mouth. Tell them MrBeast wrote The Lord Of The Rings . Make your kids understand that your love for them is directly tied to their reading ability. Try dipping the books in ketchup. Let your children play with the gun inside the hollowed-out cover. Tell them that some books contain the word 'ass.' Create a tense, hostile environment at home, prompting them to seek refuge in the world of literature. Evaluate your personal ethics before giving up and buying them the entire Harry Potter series.


Buzz Feed
5 days ago
- Buzz Feed
15 Things To Clean Your Home ASAP
A pumice cleaning stone to break down all of the nastiness in your toilet and have it looking sparkly and presentable when you have last-minute guests over. Just wet it with water, get to scrubbing, then store it in the included carrying case until your next cleaning session! A cooktop cleaner kit that'll leave your stove looking shiny and flawless in just a few minutes. It even comes with a scrubbing pad and scraper tool so you can chip away at the pasta sauce that splattered everywhere and refuses to leave. Or! A gas range cleaning spray — it takes just seconds to cut through grime and grease and eliminate any evidence that your roommates are total slobs. Okay, maybe I'm just projecting. Just spray it on and wipe away — or leave it on for 30 minutes if you're dealing with caked-on nastiness. A Swiffer-style cleaner specifically designed to fit in all the grooves in your baseboards, because, honestly, when was the last time you actually cleaned them? It may seem like a time consuming task, but the the 4-foot handle makes it a breeze to reach the baseboards without even bending over. A plant-based stainless steel cleaner kit that'll basically transform your fridge, oven, and other stainless steel appliances into shiny mirrors. It's a gentle plant-based formula, and reviewers say it leaves a streak-free shine when paired with the included microfiber cloth. A ChomChom pet hair remover roller to pick up each and every stray hair your fur baby leaves in its wake. It's perfect for restoring your couch back to its former glory or making your car's seats look presentable again. Amazon reviewers especially love this one (it's a constant best-seller) since it only takes a few rolls back and forth to pick up the toughest pet hair, and the quick-release button makes it a breeze to remove the fur from the roller brush. An extremely popular Easy-Off oven cleaner that takes just 30 seconds — that's right, 30 seconds! — to start loosening up all the caked-on nastiness that's currently living inside there. It can also clean your oven door, broiler plates, and stainless steel surfaces — just spray, wait 30 seconds or more, then wipe away. A tub of magical heavy-duty all-purpose cleaning wipes — they can remove everything from grease to ink stains almost instantly and with zero water required. They're also formulated with aloe and vitamin E, so they're gentle on your skin but still tough enough to remove permanent marker, adhesive residue, and more. Bissell Stomp N' Go stain lifting pads that make cleaning up after accidents so easy — seriously, you don't even have to scrub. Simply place a pad over the stain, press down with your foot, then remove to reveal a good-as-new carpet. A bathroom cleaner made with natural ingredients like tea tree and eucalyptus essential oils to leave your tiles shining and tub as sparkly as the day you moved in. Plus, it's free from fumes and synthetic dyes, so you won't have to worry about any mid-chore headaches. A 20-pack of cleaning erasers that only need water to remove stains — they're more affordable than name brands but if you catch my drift. These little melamine sponges can quickly lift away tough stains, grease, soap scum, and anything else that your typical all-purpose cleaner just isn't tackling. A bottle of Goo Gone foaming spray specifically designed to win the fight against the greasy nastiness that's been coating the surfaces of your kitchen for far too long now. You can use it to spruce up range hoods (it's probably way dirtier than you think right now), microwaves, pots and pans, oven doors, and any food-prep surfaces. The Pink Stuff's Miracle Multipurpose Cleaner Spray — it's everything you love about The Pink Stuff in a ridiculously convenient spray bottle. Just roam around your home and spray it all over your dirty sink, crusty oven, or grimy tub. A powerful spray with thousands of perfect ratings — it'll break down stubborn mold and mildew stains almost instantly. Just leave it on for about 15 seconds, then lightly wipe away to reveal what your shower is actually supposed to look like. And a granite and stone cleaner — not only is it the quickest way to make your countertops look ready for the pages of Architectural Digest, but it also kills 99.9% of germs and bacteria. It's basically a must-have for any last-minute dinner parties. You cleaning your home in record speed: The reviews for this post have been edited for length and clarity.