Anyway, I recently got sent a general purpose E-cloth to test.
The E-cloth promises exceptional cleaning power with just.... wait for it.... water. No soap, no Sodium Bicarbonate, no vinegar, no washing up liquid. Just plain old water. Plainer than washing up liquid. Now, this is a good moment for me to confess that I've bought E-cloths before. Bought a pack of 3 nearly 5 years ago when the green living forum I frequently visited was all over them. But I never used them as intended... heck, I didn't even read the instructions on how to use them, didn't even try to understand them... I just dismissed the 'only use water' blurb and used them as I would any piece of cleaning cloth, in this case, a pretty costly piece of cloth. and of course in the process, I damaged the microfibre properties that do the cleaning with just water.
This time however, with a 'test and review' hat on, I actually read the packaging, tested the cloth and used it as I ought to. I started out with the mirrors, as surely, those can be easily cleaned with just any cloth and water, right? Result - fabulous, no streaks whatsoever, and quick. I then moved on to the front room and the TV screen (ours is still the old fashioned analogue style TV), again, wowed. I know you're probably thinking the glass is no much of a challenge to be going on about, and you're right. Well, I put it in the wash with my tea towels and moved the challenges into the kitchen.
First thing I did in the kitchen - and I hope the FlyLady would be pleased with me for doing this - was shine my sink. I did the dishes as normal, put it all away and cleaned my sink, then polished it with the E-cloth. It gleamed wonderfully, and without as much effort as I put normally, thanks to the absorbent nature of the E-cloth. I didn't go obsessive over keeping it shiny through out the day, but I admit to E-clothing it at every opportune moment, with good results.
Next challenge, the cooker. The dirty, greasy cooker that had hardly been scrubbed clean in over 2 weeks **blush**. While I don't mind cleaning the kitchen much, the cooker can be something else. Especially when hubby takes charge of dinner a few days leading up to the weekend with breakfast on a Saturday. Well, this last Sunday, as I prepared to give it a good old scrub, as is always the case, I thought I'd take the leap and see how the E-cloth would rise up to the challenge. Well, it did okay. I used it before the scrubbing, but a week's worth of dirt, which includes an oil spill from Friday evening and Saturday morning (chips and hash browns, respectively) proved to be a bit too much for the microfibres. In all fairness though, if the oil spills were to be E-clothed immediately after they happened, before they take hold, I'm sure they'd be beaten.
So there. Who'd have thought it, but as strange as this may sound, the E-cloth has had me mildly excited at the prospect of cleaning, when I do have to do it. Spring cleaning anyone?
So, how does it work? Well, from the E-cloth site, I got this:
Each E-cloth has an extraordinary 480,000 strands per square centimetre. Every special E-cloth fibre is 1/100th the width of a human hair. It is this, together with the wedge shape of each individual fibre, that gives the cloths their remarkable cleaning capability and their high absorbency.Unlike conventional cloths, as you draw an E-cloth across a surface, the fibres clean by breaking up, trapping and absorbing dirt AND grease into the material. All this with just water.
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