Best All-Purpose Commercial Cleaners For Every Place in Your Home

All-purpose cleaners are designed to clean everything from dust bunnies to toilet rings and grease spills. We evaluated many commercial products for effectiveness, ease of use, versatility, price, and overall value. These are our picks for the seven best all-purpose cleaning products for keeping your house clean.

Contents

1. Best Inexpensive
2. Best for Gunk
3. Best for Kitchen
4. Best Overall
5. Best Concentrate
6. Best Scent
7. Best Value

Best Inexpensive

Don’t let that low price fool you. Soft Scrub is fantastic for cleaning almost anything, including countertops, sinks, showers, toilet bowls, and appliances. It removes grease, grime, sticky stuff, soap scum, lime scale, and hard water stains from surfaces. It’s fast-acting and easy to use. Simply spray on a cloth or tissue and wipe away any mess.

WALMART $4.97
TARGET  $4.29

 

Best for Gunky Grunge

Is The Pink Stuff really a miracle cleaner? Millions of social media fans think it is since becoming all the rage on TikTok. But we weren’t buying all the hype without trying it.

We tried this on a few grungy, grimy situations, and it performed really well on porcelain sinks, tubs, and toilets—even on those decals and antislip patches on the bottom of older tubs. It left stainless steel faucets, fixtures and appliances dazzling! It made quick work out of cleaning the glass oven door and glass cooktop to like-new sparkle. But it did nothing to clean white grout, which is puzzling.

So it is a miracle? Actually, I would put it in that category for gunky, grungy situations, as mentioned, but not across the board for every cleaning job. Bottom line, you won’t be disappointed with the price for all the things that The Pink Stuff can do.

As always, test any new product first in an inconspicuous place!

WALMART $5.97

 

Best for Kitchen

As a natural, plant-based product, Better Life All-Purpose cleaner is an exceptional option for cleaning in the kitchen. It’s safe, non-toxic, and scent-free. Ingredients listed include soap bark, cocoanut and corn: no harsh chemicals or synthetic soaps. You can even skip that extra rinse. Not only for the kitchen, but this product is also excellent for daily bathroom cleaning.

WALMART $10.99

 

Best Overall All-Purpose Cleaner

If you can have only one all-purpose cleaning product in the cupboard, without a doubt, it should be Mr. Clean’s Clean Freak Deep Cleaning Mist spray. First, it comes in a unique spray bottle that actually works. And Mr. Clean Freak cleans grout, tile, appliances, cabinets, countertops, showers, sinks, toilets, mirrors, windows, ceilings, and walls like a clean freak!

It removes soap scum, urine stains, water rings, and grease stains—on just about any surface you can think of and any messy situation you can imagine. Easy to use, too. Just spray and wipe away with a damp cloth. Simply spray onto the area where the cleaning needs to take place then wipe off with a damp cloth

Amazingly, 82% of 13,400 Amazon reviewers give Mr. Clean Freak Deep-Cleaning Mist 5-stars, and we know why. It’s an excellent cleaning product.

 

2-Pak WALMART $21.90
1-Pak TARGET $5.49

 

Best Multi-Purpose Cleaning Concentrate

Short on storage space for cleaning products? Consider this gallon jug of Fabuloso Concentrate. When diluted per label instructions it makes 64 gallons of multi-purpose cleaning liquid—just 1/4 cup concentrated Fabuloso to one-gallon water. Depending on how often you clean, this could last for years. Six-four gallons!

Even more, it works well for routine cleaning and maintenance.

 

 

Best Scent in an All-Purpose Cleaner

Sure homemade cleaners can work well, but you might find something missing. Things look clean, but you miss that subtle, fragrant scent that makes everything smell clean. If this describes you and your family, you will be thrilled with Mrs. Meyer’s. It’s a great cleaner, available in lemon verbena or lavender scent.

WALMART $4.88
TARGET $4.49

 

Best Value All-Purpose Cleaner

Of all the choices, Lysol Disinfectant Clean & Fresh will likely give you the best bang for your buck. That’s because it is a disinfectant plus an excellent surface cleaner. When applied to hard surfaces, the multi-use formula kills 99.9% t of germs in one minute flat. And it goes beyond disinfecting. This all-in-one cleanser removes stains, cuts through grease, and melts away soap scum. It works best on non-porous surfaces like plastic, tile, and glass, but you can safely use this product to clean almost everything.

WALMART $3.67 
TARGET $3.59

 

FAQs

What is an all-purpose cleaner used for?

All-purpose cleaners contain ingredients designed to remove surface dirt and grime from most types of surfaces. Make sure to check the labels on any cleaning products before using them on surfaces where they could damage them. Most cleaners can be used on countertops, sinks, and fixtures, though some may not be suitable for certain surfaces. You can use some products to clean glass surfaces and hard surface flooring too.

How do you use an all-purpose cleaner?

Spray bottle cleaners can be used directly on the dirty surface, or they can be applied to a cleaning cloth. Liquid all-purpose cleaners come in larger bottles that are typically diluted with water. Make sure you read the label before using any cleaning products. Best cleaning products don't need rinsing after they've been used.

What is an all-purpose cleaner?

An all-purpose cleaner is a product that removes grease and grime from various surfaces without requiring vigorous scrubbing, leaving no residue behind. Spray applications are best for small areas and quick clean-ups, while concentrated products are generally better for floors and large cleaning jobs.

 

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