A plant- and mineral-based kitchen cleaner from ATTITUDE, 800 ml — for worktops, hobs, splashbacks and the general grease that a kitchen produces.
Cleaning and disinfecting are two different operations, and the order matters. A cleaner removes soil: grease, food residue, the film that builds up around a hob. A disinfectant kills microorganisms. They are not interchangeable, and — crucially — a disinfectant applied to a dirty surface largely fails, because organic matter binds and inactivates the active agent before it reaches anything living. If you are going to disinfect, clean first. Most of the time, for most kitchen surfaces, cleaning alone is what is actually needed.
The dirtiest object in your kitchen is not the bin. It is the sponge or dishcloth. Microbiological surveys consistently find kitchen sponges among the most densely colonised objects in the home — warm, wet, full of food particles, and never allowed to dry. Wiping a worktop with an old sponge does not clean it; it inoculates it. Replace cloths often, wash them hot, and let them dry fully between uses. This does more for kitchen hygiene than any spray on the market.
The three surfaces to be careful with. Natural stone — marble, granite, travertine — which should never meet an acidic cleaner, and generally wants a stone-specific product. Wooden worktops, which need oiling rather than spraying and hate standing water. And induction hobs, which scratch more easily than people expect — no abrasive powders, no scouring pads.
Contact time is real, and nobody honours it. Spray and immediately wipe, and you have removed whatever the mechanical action of the cloth removed and nothing else. Spray, leave it thirty seconds to a minute, and the surfactants have time to loosen the grease before the cloth arrives. On a burnt-on hob, leave a damp cloth over the spot for ten minutes instead of scrubbing.
Free from synthetic fragrance, dyes and petroleum-derived surfactants. Vegan, biodegradable, and EWG VERIFIED — a transparency standard from a US advocacy body rather than a regulator.
Available at Só Verde, an organic concept store in Foz, Porto.
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