An orange grove in my living-room
Written: Sep 19 '03
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Pros: Does a good job, no residue, smells wonderful
Cons: No warning label about not using on floors
The Bottom Line: Don't use this product on your Bottom Line - you'll slip and break your neck.
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| Penguinlady's Full Review: Orange Glo Wood Cleaner & Polish |
I'm a pretty lousy housekeeper. Well, actually, I'm good at it, once I get going, but it takes a lot to get me going. Between my unusual tolerance for chaos and my disinclination to spend my precious time mopping and dusting, my house looks good for about five days after The Wondrous Carla cleans it every two weeks, and then gradually descends into tufts of cat hair on the stairs, and piles of papers on the kitchen counters, and last Sunday's newspaper on the floor by the coffee table... (Whew - that sentence came out really much longer than I'd intended.)
Anyway, it occasionally happens that we plan a party for the weekend between Carla's visits, and the house isn't very presentable. Since my very least favorite household job, aside from emptying the dishwasher, is vacuuming, I leave that Penguinman and tackle the dusting. We live in the foothills, with a mountainside five feet from my bedroom and office and back patio, so there's always a lot of dusting to be done.
A few years ago, at a home show, I was introduced to cleaning products made with orange oil. Any citrus oil is good for cleaning, but most commercial ones use lemon. I prefer orange, partly because the scent is more truly orangey. So now, for both my sake and Carla's, I keep the cupboard stocked with the least toxic, most natural cleaning agents I can find. Some of them, unfortunately, don't do a very good job. Orange Glo Wood Cleaner and Polish is an exception - it's not natural, but it is a little less chemical than some others, smells lovely, and does an excellent job.
FEATURES AND HOW TO USE IT
• The primary ingredients in this product are petroleum distillates and orange oil.
• It comes in various sizes; the one I buy is the 16-oz. sprayer.
• The bottle has a handy shape, easy to grip, even with slippery hands. The trigger is a goodly size so you can use more than one finger to squeeze it.
• According to the front label, Orange Glo Wood Cleaner and Polish "melts away grease, grime, polish, and wax build-up." It can be used on furniture, paneling, and cabinets. Per the back label, you can also use it on shower stalls, Formica, vinyl, fiberglass, and ceramic tile.
• Simply spray it onto the wood surface you want to clean, wait 30 seconds, and wipe it off with a soft cloth.
• I buy Orange Glo Wood Cleaner and Polish wherever I find it; the one I'm looking at as I write this came from Bed, Bath, & Beyond and cost $5.99, so it's a little pricier than some other products on the market.
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT IT
• Mostly, the smell. I hate the chemical smell of most other cleaning agents. Orange Glo Wood Cleaner and Polish leaves a true - as opposed to artificial - orange scent. It's actually quite pleasant. (Twenty years ago I went out for a while with a man who was a compulsive cleaner. I knew our relationship was doomed when he told me that his favorite perfume was Lysol. I wonder how he would feel about this stuff?)
• I also like the way it works. I have a wooden end-table, a wooden shelf on my glass-topped coffee table, an antique dry sink, and other odds and ends of wood in my living-room. And in the dining-room, there's the table, eight chairs, a buffet, and a china cabinet. The bedroom contains a cherry bed and night-stands. And of course there are maple cabinets in the kitchen. I - and Carla - use this on all of it and it all comes beautifully clean and fragrant.
• Orange Glo Wood Cleaner and Polish cleans as well as polishes. I can spray it directly onto a gunky spot and return in a minute or three to wipe it right off.
• There is no oily slick left on the surface. I've used some cleaners that left a residue you could write in. My test is to press my index finger at an angle against the surface and then try to slide it forward. With Orange Glo Wood Cleaner and Polish, I can't do that; my finger skips forward because the surface isn't slippery.
• I also use it to remove the gunky residue left by sticky labels, or sticky messes on the dining-room table. Oil of any kind will dissolve adhesive - that's why you don't use body lotion on the place where you need to apply a band-aid - which is why I have no use for those specialty products like Goo-Gone. All it takes is a squirt of Orange Glo Wood Cleaner and Polish directly on the mess. Five minutes later, I rub the mess right off. I've even used it on delicate crystal. Works like a charm.
• A little goes a long way. I buy the 16-oz. size and it lasts for months. Maybe that says more about my cleaning habits than it does about the product, but my house is clean and I'm not broke.
WHAT I'M NOT CRAZY ABOUT
• I once made the mistake of spraying some Orange Glo Wood Cleaner and Polish onto my dust-mop and running over my hardwood floors with it. That was a big mistake. Even though it doesn't leave a slippery residue on the furniture, my floors were dangerously slippery for about a week after that little experiment and I had to go barefoot to avoid slipping. The label only says that the product is good for all wood surfaces, but doesn't say anything about floors. Maybe only a fool would use it thusly, but I'm warning you: Don't use it on your floors.
So not only am I not crazy about that feature, but I'm pretty unhappy that there's no warning on the label. I'm probably not the only person who's tried that.
SUMMARY AND VERDICT
I don't usually get excited about cleaning products, but I really like Orange Glo Wood Cleaner and Polish. It does a good job, doesn't leave an oil slick, and smells heavenly - how many cleaning products can make that claim?
Five stars.
Recommended:
Yes
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