You clean out the coffee pot every day, and yet, the bottom of your carafe still has a buildup of grime and dirt. What gives? You want to clean it to keep the buildup to a minimum and minerals out of your coffee, but mainly, to keep the taste of your coffee consistent.
Read moreHive Tip: Seasonal Cleaning Guide
There is nothing better than the welcoming of a new season! Whether it’s warm to chilly, windy to balmy, or wintry to budding, a change in scenery is always refreshing. At Hive Helper, we love to integrate the seasonal shifts into our home cleaning patterns. It’s the perfect time to revisit tired corners and declutter any high-traffic areas of the home.
Read moreHive Tip: Clean your Bedding, the Right Way!
The best way to wash a comforter plus some tips to keep in mind when washing a delicate down comforter.
Read moreHive Tip: Clean Your Rug
There comes a time, as with every surface or space in your home, for a more thorough clean that gets beneath the surface of what you can see or smell. Your rug would benefit from a deep clean once or twice a year—unless your rug is subject to excessively high traffic or it has noticeable spots or stains, in which case you’d want to clean sooner.
Read moreHive Tip: Clean your oven, naturally
Ahhh, the daunting task of cleaning the oven. Maybe there are some fallen, forgotten pizza crumbs that blacken every time you fire it up - or grease splatters from that recipe you tried to make over Thanksgiving… We’ve gathered two all-natural methods for getting it clean once and for all.
Read moreHive Tip: Improve Indoor Air Quality
Minor impacts of unhealthy indoor air quality include headaches; irritation of your ears, nose, and throat; and dizziness, among others—but more serious effects can include cancer and respiratory diseases. Filter the air, introduce fresh air, and manage humidity, experts say. Here are 12 ideas for improving indoor air quality, whether you or someone in your home has allergies or environmental conditions outdoors are causing poor air quality inside.
Read moreGreen Under Your Kitchen Sink
Going green doesn't happen in a day, but there are many small changes you can incorporate that make a big difference, improving the overall health of your family and helping to prevent illnesses related to toxic and synthetic chemicals. A great place to start is under your kitchen sink!
Read moreHive Tip: Clean Your Vacuum
At Hive Helper, we strongly recommend you allow us to utilize your own household’s vacuum during our visits. We ask this for a few different reasons, first and foremost being for your household’s sanitation purposes - mold, e.coli, etc. were among the nastiest bacteria found in vacuums in this 2008 study by researchers at the University of Arizona (gross!).
Read moreHive Tip: Dealing With Tough Stains
There's nothing worse than trying to get rid of a stain on a favorite top or pillow sham and making it worse in the process, right?! Before you launch into treating a tough stain, take a look at the following suggestions to make sure you do more good than harm.
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