Greener Cleaners Needed

Asthma Risk from Spray Cleaners   If occasional use of spray cleaners can cause asthma, can you imagine what using them continuously as part of your job may do? Per research in Spain, using household cleaning sprays or air fresheners as little as once a week can raise the risk of developing asthma in adults (www.thoracic.org).   “Frequent use of household cleaning sprays may be an important risk factor for adult asthma,” wrote lead...

Where Clean Freaks Go for their Tools of the Trade

One Supplier Beats the Competition   Where’s the best online retailer for commercial cleaning supplies? The International Janitorial Cleaning Services Association (IJCSA) has awarded...

Housekeeping Gets a High-Tech Makeover

Newfound Respect for Housekeepers   The old way of doing business was to judge how clean a room was by looking at it or by smelling it. If it glistened, gleamed, and smelled like lemons, then...