What is your secret to a mess free kitchen?

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For most homes, the kitchen is always humming with activity. It’s where the whole family gathers at the end of the day and dinner preparations share the table with homework hour. There are lunches to be packed, shopping lists to write, kids waiting to be fed and home-cooked meals to be shared over stories and laughs. With all the bustling chaos of family life, there’s bound to be a bit of mess along the way.

VIVA products give you easy, fast cleaning solutions so you can wipe up little spills as you go and give your kitchen a quick spot clean to leave surfaces cleaner, drier and free from messy residue. From paper towels to stainless steel wipes, VIVA has a clever cleaning product to suit all your home’s cleaning needs and help you get the cleaning done quickly and with less hassle. Mess will still happen, but it won’t get in the way of family time with VIVA.

On this website, we’ve gathered the best cleaning tips and tackled your home cleaning needs room-by-room. We’ll also show you how to quickly and effectively clean surfaces and kitchen appliances, so that you and your family can get on with the more important things in life. Click here to find out more about VIVA Paper Towels or check out our clever cleaning wipes range.

If you’ve got a great cleaning tip, or you’ve tried any VIVA cleaning products, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Simply post your cleaning tip here and we’ll share it with other like-minded clever cleaners!

Your Top Cleaning Tips

Salt & Lemon Juice
Rub glass shower doors with a mixture of 2 tablespoons salt and 1/2 cup lemon juice for a sparkling clean.
Lavender Oil
Wipe lavender oil on to the surface of a shower screen and soap and scum will not adhere to it.
Lemon Juice
Add lemon juice or essential oils to vinegar and water for a fresher smelling and environmentally friendly shower and toilet cleaner.
Bi-Carb and Vinegar
I can’t go past it for the shower, healthy for my family, healthy for the planet.
Clove Oil
Use Clove Oil for mould as it’s non toxic and continues to eat away the mould once wiped on.
Car Polish
Clean your shower glass with car polish, and soapy water will not cling but bead off
Liquid Soap
Mirrors don’t fog if you rub a little liquid soap and buff
Washing Powder
Using washing powder on the bath tub to get off tuff dirt stains in warm water. WORKS WONDERS!!
Methylated Spirits
Wipe your toilet over with methylated spirits for a sparkling clean toilet that looks brand new
Toothbrushes
Using old toothbrushes to clean the grout in between tiles in the bathroom – they get in those tiny spots so well!!!
Coke
Pour coke into your toilet and bath. The acid removes all stains. Wait one hour and flush or rinse.
Toothpaste
Using toothpaste on the silver taps makes them nice and shiny
Vodka
I found using a little bit of vodka and warm water, the taps and shower rose are sparkling clean believe it or not
Bleach
If your shower is clogged, pour a cap of bleach down the drain, leave it for an hour, voila! Your shower is unblocked!
Bi-Carb Soda
I use bi-carb soda mixed with lavender oil to make a cleaning paste that smells nice, to clean tiles, baths and sinks
Body Gloves
Use old body gloves for cleaning the shower screen while you’re in there then just rinse off before you get out
White Vinegar
For a blocked shower head remove and soak in equal amounts hot water and white vinegar.
Eucalyptus Oil
Use eucalyptus oil and VIVA® Paper Towel to wipe down your toilet seats for a chemical free, odour eating clean!
Vinegar & Cornflour
Mix 1 cup of white vinegar with 2 tablespoons of cornflour. Spray on shower screen & rinse off after 5 minutes
Towels
After everyone has had a shower, grab a towel and wipe all the excess water off the shower screen. This will remove soap scum and stop the shower from moulding too quickly
Lavender Oil
Soak a cotton ball with lavender oil and pop it in your vacuum bag. It will leave your home smelling fresh when you vacuum.
Cold Tea
Windows shine up so clear and new just by cleaning with cold tea that you’ll have to be careful not to walk through them!
Bi-Carb Soda
Place smelly musty books in a brown paper bag add bi-carb soda leave in dry place for a week, shake and the smell will be gone.
Lemon Juice
To remove sticky labels from CDs and DVDs use lemon essence or the juice of a lemon!
Tea Bag
When cleaning wooden floors add a tea bag to hot water before you mop. For a lovely scent add a tea like earl grey.
Lemon
Put a little lemon in your mopping water to make your house feel fresher and cleaner
Eucalyptus Oil
Eucalyptus oil will remove horrible bits of old stickers from furniture – and leave a lovely smell in the room.
Lemon oil
Put lemon oil on duster and wipe over light fittings to stop spiders making webs on them and stops dust clinging to the webs.
Essential oil
Put a few drops of essential oil into water when mopping floor boards. The oil helps to make the floor shine and smell great.
Eucalyptus Oil
Dampen your VIVA® Paper Towel with eucalyptus oil and dust off bedroom furniture. Shining, disinfecting and helps to keep sinuses clear during the cold and flu season
Cornflour
Pour cornflour where you find ants around the home. They eat it, take it back to their home, cannot digest it and die. Perfectly safe.
Lavender Oil
Damp wipe lavender or favourite essential oil around windows and doors when airing out the house
Bi-Card Soda
Bi-carb soda works wonders removing scuff marks from walls. Sprinkle Bi-carb soda on a damp cloth and wipe away.
Dried Lavender flowers
Dried lavender flowers in the drawers stop silverfish and cockroaches from getting in and leaves a great smell.
Olive oil & lemon juice
Mix one part olive oil with one part lemon juice to polish wood.
Bi-Carb & essential oil
Mix bi-carb soda with a few drops of essential oil, sprinkle on carpets, leave for 20 minutes and vacuum up for an easy carpet freshener..
Icy Cold Water
Tip icy cold water on red wine spills on carpet this will bring stain to the surface then soak up with VIVA® Paper Towel.
Potato
Cut a potato in half then rub the flesh side on your windows then wipe down with VIVA® Paper Towel. Comes up a treat!
Rosemary
Put a large sprig of rosemary in your vacuum cleaner bag; it leaves a pleasant scent.
Orange peels
Try baking orange peels in oven at 350 to remove kitchen smells.
Vanilla Essence
Clean the inside of the fridge with vanilla essence and water.
Bi-Carb Soda
A cheap alternative to using dishwasher detergent is to use the ever useful bi-carb soda – it gives a wonderful and environmental clean.
Lemon or lime
To rid cutting board of onion fish or garlic smells, cut a lemon or lime in two and rub the surface with the fruit.
Lemon Juice
To clean your microwave fill a bowl with boiling water add a squeeze of lemon juice, microwave for 2mins. Wipe out debris with cloth.
White Vinegar
To clean kettle/jug boil with water and white vinegar. Cleans all the scale from inside.
Bi-Carb Soda
To clean around stove hotplates, sprinkle bi-carb soda onto surface then scrub a little with a damp VIVA® Paper Towel.
Baking Soda & Salt
I use baking soda and salt when scrubbing pots n pans, also when cleaning the oven (whilst the oven is still warm).
White Vinegar
Add 1 cup white vinegar to empty dishwasher/washing machine and start a “normal” wash. This will eliminate smells and limescales from stainless steel interior.
Eucalyptus oil
Use eucalyptus oil to clean the benches and to get rid of bad odour.
Lemon
Use a lemon to clean your kitchen sinks, it works wonders!
Rhubarb leaves
Boil rhubarb leaves in pans that have burnt during cooking. 3-5 minutes should be enough. Drain and wipe away any residual.
Olive Oil
Having trouble removing sticky labels from containers? Pour a little olive oil onto VIVA® Paper Towel and rub gently. No more soaking or scratching.
Bay Leaves
Bay leaves in drawers help keep insects away.
Brown Vinegar
To make glass oven-doors shine like new, drench VIVA® Paper Towels with brown vinegar and leave on glass for an hour. Wipe with dry VIVA® Paper Towel… PERFECT!
Lemon Juice
To clean dirty chopping boards squeeze lemon juice on and put out in the sun comes up great.
Bi-Carb Soda
Place a small amount of bi-carb soda in an open container and leave in the fridge. It will absorb odours..
Eucalyptus Oil
A drop of eucalyptus oil on bits of cotton wool placed in dark cupboard corners can keep the ants and bugs away naturally.
Raw Rice
To clean the inside of bottles your sponge can’t get into, pour in some raw rice, detergent and water and shake vigorously.
Lemon Essence
Wipe lemon essence on your pantry shelves to keep ants, weevils and moths away.
Lemon & Sun-light
Rubbing a lemon onto a stubborn stain on a white shirt and then leaving it in the sunlight for a while will remove the stain.
White Vinegar
Use white vinegar in your rinse cycle in your machine it makes clothes soft and cleans machine. It’s also cheap.
Cold Tea
To clean the base of your iron, wipe it with a VIVA® Paper Towel soaked in cold tea. Stains will vanish!
Milk
Take a clean, white cloth soaked in milk and rub the ink stain from the outer sides inward. Repeat over and over.
Eucalyptus oil
A little bit of eucalyptus oil in the wash when washing bedding linen (family or pets) will help sanitise them without chemicals.
Wash & wear
Try to buy items that are wash and wear and cuts down on ironing time.
Vinegar
If whites turn pink in the wash, add a cup of vinegar and rewash. This has the same affect as bleach without the environmental effects.
Orange Oil
Orange oil spray on white gym shoes makes them look brand new again.
Lemon Juice
To whiten your whites, soak the fabrics in lemon juice for 15 minutes then wash as usual.
Bi-Carb & Lemon Juice
Mix bi-carb soda, lemon juice and water to make a paste to remove bad BO on shirt underarms.
Cold Water
To remove blood or red wine from a white shirt, rinse immediately in cold water and leave overnight.
Eucalyptus oil
Place a bit of eucalyptus oil on VIVA® Paper Towel then rub gently on stains in fabric to watch them lift away.
Vinegar
Vinegar rather than fabric softener does the same job and leaves the tub squeaky clean.
Milk
Biro comes out by dipping the stained part of the clothes into a glass of milk.
Banana
Use a banana to shine shoes! The fruit wax from the outer skin is really effective, and you can eat the inside as usual.
Vinegar
Sponge perspiration with equal amounts vinegar and water, or full strength vinegar, or lemon juice. Then launder in hot, soapy water.
White Vinegar
To make towels soft and more absorbent, add half a cup of white vinegar to the load during the rinse cycle of the washing machine.
Inside out clothes
I hang my clothes to dry inside out that way they don’t fade.
Green Mulberries
Mulberry stains on clothes and children’s hands and faces are magically removed by rubbing green mulberries over the top squeezing the juice as you go.
Eucalyptus Oil
Use eucalyptus oil in the wash with bed linen to kill bed bugs, deodorise and lift any oil from sheets, towels and clothing.
Salt
To prevent slugs and snails chewing up the mail, sprinkle salt inside the letter box.
Bi-Carb Soda
Use bi-carb soda in a little warm water to easily get the bugs off your car a light rub and they will be easily removed.
Lemon
If using a hot plate in the kitchen or BBQ rub with 1/2 lemon and use grease proof paper to cook on.
Eucalyptus oil
Eucalyptus oil can be used for getting rid of black tar from your car duco and all things sticky from most smooth surfaces.
Kitty Litter
Place kitty litter on top of oil spills in garage. Soaks up the oil stain.
White Vinegar
Whilst still hot clean a BBQ down with white vinegar. Let it evaporate and when slightly cool wipe down surface with VIVA® Paper Towel.
White Vinegar
A cheap and safe weed killer alternative is white vinegar.
Mr Sheen
To polish your car after washing spray with Mr Sheen then wipe over light with paper towelling no elbow grease needed.
2 Stroke Blower
Use a 2 stroke blower to clean the gutters! Job done in 10m and perfect!
Baby Oil
Going on a long drive? Wash your car then smear a thin film of baby oil on the bumper. The dead bugs just hose off.
Vinegar, Lemon & Wine
Vinegar, lemon and small amount of left in the bottle white wine all mixed on the still warm BBQ. Rub with VIVA® Paper Towel.
Coke
Pour coke on oil stains in driveway.
Bi-Carb Soda
Mix 2 tablespoons of bi-carb soda with a cup of warm water. Pour over battery terminals. When it stops foaming, rinse with clean water.
Kerosene
Kerosene poured on driveways & paths, kills weeds, moss etc. Saves hours weeding.
Rain
Wash your car in the rain, and you’ll use less water.
Eucalyptus oil
To remove small spots of tar on my velour seat covers I put a few drops of eucalyptus oil on a VIVA® Paper Towel.
Coke
Pour a can of Coke over your dirty BBQ and leave for about 10 minutes. Come back and wipe off. Works like a charm.
Bleach
To clean sandstone paths or pavers, use household bleach. It is more effective than a water pressure gun, saves water and is less harsh.
Furniture Polish
Stop a freezer in the garage becoming rusty by spraying it with furniture polish.
Sugar Soap
Wash grubby outdoor windows first with sugar soap then Windex with newspaper to make them crystal clear.

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