If a bathroom or kitchen cleaning is due again, an environmentally friendly and thorough cleaning product should be used so that the effort is not in vain and the world does not suffer even more. Vinegar cleaner is ideal for this, as Öko-Test is pleased to note.
Öko-Test starts the autumn with a bathroom and kitchen cleaning and has resorted to vinegar cleaner. Before that, 19 corresponding products were purchased, including well-known brands and private labels from supermarkets and discounters. Based on one liter of cleaner, the testers paid between 0.75 and 4.98 euros.
In order to check how well the cleaners remove limescale and lime soap, a specialist laboratory carried out a practical test based on the recommendations for quality assessment from the Industry Association for Personal Care and Detergents. To check the lime-dissolving power, the experts immersed calcareous marble slabs in the cleaner. After a certain time, the panels were weighed to determine the amount of lime dissolved. How well the cleaners remove lime soap was tested with a colored dirt solution. Other laboratories tested the cleaners for controversial halogenated organic compounds, allergy-causing fragrances and preservatives such as isothiazolinones. Acids and synthetic polymers used recorded by Öko-Test on the basis of the declaration and the data sheet.
Result? Pleasing! Five “very good” vinegar-based cleaners do not contain any aggressive acids and are still good at dealing with lime and lime soap. Ten were found to be “good”. Only four were only mediocre (“satisfactory”).
Basically, it can be said that vinegar-based cleaners are good all-purpose cleaning agents for kitchens and bathrooms if the water is hard. Most manufacturers recommend using it undiluted only for stubborn dirt and otherwise adding about 60 milliliters to 5 liters of water. However, care should be taken with acid-sensitive surfaces such as marble and natural stone. It is better to use a mild neutral cleaner here.
Otherwise, the following “very good” products against dirt in the bathroom and kitchen can be used without hesitation and successfully: “Blik vinegar cleaner” from Penny and “Denkmit vinegar cleaner” from DM and “W5 Nature vinegar cleaner” from Lidl (all three 0, 75 euros), the “Domol vinegar cleaner” from Rossmann (0.85 euros) and the much more expensive “Frosch vinegar cleaner” from Werner
