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The 6 Best Cleaning Accessories for Your Home – A Detailed Review

By Joan Clark

Although cleaning will always be a hassle, having top-notch cleaning accessories will make your life a lot easier. Whether it be mops, dusters, or just paper towels, there’s a big difference between just adequate cleaners and the best cleaning accessories for your home.

But what makes cleaning accessories good, and how do you find ones that fit your criteria? We are here to help you determine good cleaning accessories and offer some suggestions for top-notch picks that should save you time, hassle, and energy.

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Table Of Contents
  1. How to Choose Cleaning Accessories
  2. O-Cedar Easy Wring Spin Mop and Bucket System Review
  3. Swiffer Sweeper Floor Mop Review
  4. Swiffer Dusters Cleaner Starter Kit Review
  5. Zwipes Microfiber Cleaning Cloths Review
  6. Bounty Paper Towels Review
  7. Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Review

How to Choose Cleaning Accessories

The most important qualities in home cleaning accessories are affordability, value, and efficiency.

Affordability – Do you really need it?

Is the item in your price range, and will you use it enough to justify its price tag? It is the second part of this question that many people forget when shopping for cleaning accessories.

For example, you might be able to afford to buy a carpet shampooer, but if you are only going to shampoo and clean your carpets once or twice a year, paying $200 for something that is just going to sit in the closet and take up space for 363 days of the year is probably unwise.

Value – Is it worth the money?

What item will last the longest and give you the most bang for your buck? Buying a vacuum cleaner for $50 might seem like a great value, but it isn’t if it leaves your floor less than clean or breaks after a month.

When looking for value, you need to look at more than just the price tag. Ask yourself these questions, and if you don’t know the answers right away, investigate:

  • How good is the item at doing its job?
  • Is the item made well, and will it last long?
  • How much upkeep does it require?

Compare the answers to these questions to the price tag to determine whether the accessory is a good value.

Efficiency – Does it get the cleaning job done quickly?

When thinking about efficiency, you need to think about more than how good the item is at doing its job. Consider these questions:

  • How much time am I currently spending on the task this product will help me with, and how much time will the item save me?
  • Is the item easy to use, and can the accessory be easilycleaned?
  • How quickly can the item perform the job?
  • Does the item requiremuch storage space, and do I have a convenient place to put it?

These questions will determine how much time you need to spend (and how much time you can save) by using that item over your current cleaning method/accessories.

Below a detailed review of our top cleaning accessories which should be in your home. We call them the “Must-Have” cleaning accessories to make you cleaning job easier:

Product Review

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O-Cedar Easy Wring Spin Mop and Bucket System Review

People clean tile, wood, or linoleum floors with mops. Works perfectly with any homemade floor cleaner. You can choose between dry mops and wet mops, but wet mops, which also need a bucket of the water, clean up sticky, extra grimy, or wet messes dry mops cannot.

A spin mop has a swivel head for easier cleaning, quickly spins the excess water out when dipping and rinsing the mop in the bucket. O-Cedar makes eco-friendly cleaning accessories and products.

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What We Love

  • Spins dirty water completely out of mop when rinsing, so you don’t drag around dirty water or leave puddles on your floor
  • Does not leave streaks on floors
  • Microfiber, so safe and gentle on any surface, including as a DIY wall cleaner
  • The head is detachable and machine washable
  • Bucket has built-in wringer
  • Can easily buy replacement heads for it
  • Has foot pedal for spinning action so no awkward bending or wringing
  • Sturdy construction. The mop handle is particularly durable.
  • Available in easy to open packaging.
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Points to Consider

  • Does not have a spinning mop head
  • May “shed” a bit on first use, so dry mopping afterward might be necessary the first time you use this product.
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Swiffer Sweeper Floor Mop Review

Swiffer floor mops are nontraditional mops designed for convenience. Instead of thetraditional mop head, Swiffer mops have disposable cloths that wrap around a flat head.

The dry sweepers work on dust and surface grime (things you would use a broom for), while the wet variety works on stuck-on problems or sticky areas where you’d usually use a mop. The starter kit comes with the mop and dry and wet cloths.

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What We Love

  • Disposable clothes are quick and easy to change, leaving hardly any clean up time or mess.
  • The clothes grab the dust and dirt, so there is no bending to sweep up debris with a dustpan
  • Can use wet or dry cloths to transition between mopping easily and sweeping with a single accessory.
  • Can be quickly taken apart or assembled for easy storage or travel.
  • Sturdy construction
  • Swivel head, which allows you to easily clean under large appliances and furniture and in corners and awkward areas.
  • Great at picking up pet hair
  • Requires less time and elbow grease than traditional mops and brooms
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Points to Consider

  • Does not work well on grout or other grooved areas
  • The cloth refills tend to be expensive, but there are generic alternatives
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Swiffer Dusters Cleaner Starter Kit Review

The main problem with most dusters is rather than removing the dust; they just smear it around. If you want to remove dust, you need to break out your actual cleaning supplies, spray and wipe everything down to remove the dust.

That is not the case with this duster. Swiffer’s duster starter kit comes with the duster handle and five dusters.

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What We Love

  • Dust clings to the wand, so it is removed versus just temporarily disturbed
  • Great to clean delicate or water-sensitive items, like laptop screens, computers or TVs, or items that are awkward to reach to clean. It is the best way to clean a LED TV screen since liquids can damage internal parts. No liquid involved with this solution!
  • Disposable heads, so once the duster is dirty, remove and replace it. You can also wash the heads as long as you let them air dry rather than putting them in the dryer.
  • Each head lasts for multiple uses, and you can extend the life of each head further by simply shaking off some dust between uses (knocking it against something to dislodge the dust is most likely necessary), but this step is not required.
  • Takes far less time to remove dust that other cleaning methods
  • Unscented, so doesn’t leave your things smelling of chemicals
  • Can clean seriously dusty areas without leaving any dust behind
  • Refills are easy to find and purchase and are quite economical, as well
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Points to Consider

  • Not recyclable
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Zwipes Microfiber Cleaning Cloths Review

Microfiber cloths are ultra soft cloths that are gentler than cotton or linen alternatives, which is why they are often used for quick cleaning jobs. Zwipes is a leading brand in household cleaning accessories.

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What We Love

  • Will not scratch surfaces, so can clean almost any surface, including glass, windows, cars, and wood, and use it to polish pewter, silver, and jewelry.
  • Considerably more absorbent than standard towels, yet dry twice as quickly.
  • Washable, so reusable and does not generate landfill trash
  • Can be used to clean up spills, dust, or with other cleaning supplies to disinfect surfaces (the wipes themselves have no built-in cleaners or disinfectants)
  • Do not leave streaks behind when cleaning glass
  • Clean off small spaces,  like the inside of toaster ovens, more quickly than sponges
  • Comes in easy to open packaging
  • Each cloth is large (over a foot long and a foot wide), so you have plenty of cloth to clean an area without having to use various cloths.
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Points to Consider

  • Slightly more expensive than some similar alternatives
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Bounty Paper Towels Review

Paper towels may often be overlooked as an essential cleaning accessory, but having the right paper towels, or any paper towels when you have a quick spill to clean up or counter or appliance to wipe down is often much more convenient than using non-disposable cleaning supplies. Bounty is one of the more popular brands of towels and here’s why.

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What We Love

  • Large, extra absorbent rolls, so the towels can be used more sparingly. This allows you to buy paper towels less often.
  • Comes in select-a-size so that you can tear off a whole towel or just half a sheet depending on your need.
  • Can be used to scrub counters and cabinets. Tests show that Bounty holds up better than other paper towels when used to scrub tough jobs.
  • Disposable, so quick and easy to clean up. No washing or maintenance required.
  • Comes in plain or tasteful prints so you can choose your own style
  • Comes in a variety of sizes
  • Also comes in a style complete with soap for use in water and in a ultra durable variety that acts more like a dish towel.
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Points to Consider

  • Often slightly more expensive than other brands
  • Each paper towel is single use, not made of recycled material, and not recyclable, so they do generate landfill trash.
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Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Review

Magic erasers are small multi-purpose cleaners, primarily used to remove tough stains, about the size and shape of a sponge. They are made from melamine foam, which is alsoused for insulation and soundproofing and is known as an excellent cleaner often found as an active ingredient in sponges.

The original Mr. Clean Magic Erasers are just melamine foam. However, they come in a variety of types, and other more specialty erasers have other cleaning ingredients in them as well.

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What We Love

  • Effective for most stains
  • The original does not contain perfumes
  • Safe for glass, leather, floors, walls, appliances, bathrooms, and counter tops
  • Easy to use. Just wet and scrub the eraser on the affected area.
  • Just need water, no other cleaners or accessories
  • Inexpensive: under $5 for a pack of 4.
  • Small and easily stored
  • Works quickly: You may need a little elbow grease, but generally stains come off with little more effort than if you were erasing pencil marks on paper.
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Points to Consider

  • stainless steel, or anything high gloss
  • Does not stand up to repeated uses. Normally, only one or two times use for each eraser.
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Although all these products are worth having, for me, the Swiffer Sweeper Floor Mop is the real must-have. This versatile mop is easy to store and use, works well as a broom and a mop for general cleaning and requires barely any upkeep at all. It could be a go-to cleaning item for both your mop and your broom for general everyday cleaning.

Overall, all these reviewed products are a must-have for serious home cleaning. They are the perfect cleaning accessories for all daily cleaning jobs around your home.

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