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The 2020 Glade® Limited Edition Spring Collection Scents

June 2, 2020 By denise Leave a Comment

Disclosure: This is not a compensated or sponsored post. I was provided the product for review purposes only. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Spring is here! You know what that means…the 2020 Glade® Limited Edition Spring Collection Scents have hit the shelves. We all need a bit of relaxation these days and these scents are perfect.

This year you’ll find three amazing scents to help fill your home with the fresh scents of spring! Be on the lookout for a display with these fragrances:

Berry Pop

Awaken your senses with the fruity notes of strawberry, dewberry and lime zest

Bamboo Bliss Song

Create a calming atmosphere with the lush, floral notes of lotus blossom and fresh moss

Sultry Spiced Rhythm

Find the display and pick up your favorite scents in all your favorite products including Glade^®Candles, Glade^®PlugIns^® Scented Oil Refills, and Glade^®Automatic Spray Refills.

When you shop, you’ll want to take advantage of the sale on the Glade^® PlugIns^® Scented Oil Starter Kit or Twinpack Holder so you can quickly fill your whole home with the scents of spring.

These scents will make staying at home a little bit more relaxing.

Cascade Helps Get Our Dishes Clean

March 27, 2020 By denise Leave a Comment

Disclosure: This is not a compensated or sponsored post. I was provided the product for review purposes only. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Everyone wants the dishes that come out of their dishwasher to be sparkling clean and free of germs. That’s kind of the point of having a dishwasher. Clean the first time saves time, water, money, and effort. However, we’ve all had the experience of dishes that didn’t get clean their first time through the machine. Fortunately, Cascade has been working hard for decades to help us have clean dishes without a second wash. Between offering a superior product and developing education on how to get the best performance out of your dishwasher, you can count on Cascade to help you produce the cleanest of dishes.

In 1953, Cascade entered the automatic dishwashing market with claims of “spotless dishes” to the four percent of households with dishwashers. The fast-moving world of household innovations was just in its beginning stages, and Cascade stayed at the forefront for the next 50 years by developing a range of automatic dishwashing products perfect for a variety of families, needs, and lifestyles. Today, with decades of experience and dishwashers in more than 60-percent of households, Cascade continues to grow, striving for immaculate dishes every time with its brilliant automatic dishwashing powders, gels, pacs, and additives.

Our household has been using Cascade brand dishwashing detergent for a long time. We used to use the powder, but somewhere along the way we switched to a liquid. The liquid, especially, has worked exceptionally well to clean our dishes. Assuming we pack the dishwasher properly, and the dishwasher itself is clean, everything comes out looking good.

Dishwashers always have taken less of our time than doing handwashing, but with modern chemistry advances, washing dishes in the dishwasher is becoming a better and better choice. More dishes are becoming dishwasher safe, and detergents, especially Cascade Platinum, are doing a better job cleaning dishes.

How do dishes get clean? Some factors are local to your individual house and machine options, such as wash time, water temperature, and water hardness. Longer washes, higher temperatures, and lower water hardness all help dishes get clean. But your chosen detergent plays an even bigger part.

To clean dishes in a dishwasher, you need some combination of these factors: alkalinity, chealants, builders, polymers, enzymes, surfactants, and bleach. These can be combined in different ways, resulting in a more or less effective detergent. Each element plays an important role.

Chealant grabs calcium ions, getting them out of the way so the detergent can work properly. Calcium can act as a glue that holds food together, so removing it allows food to break up into tiny pieces. A good chealant also acts as a water softener. No one has a stronger chealant than Cascade.

Surfactant gathers dirt and grease together and helps wash them down the drain. It also flattens out water spots on dishes, helping it drain off more easily.

Enzymes help break down foods. Cascade has one enzyme that works on starches and another for breaking down proteins.

Polymers are great scoopers that sweep away what the chealants have broken down. Polymers also stick to calcium, so it’s important for the chealant to get rid of that.

Bleach works how you would expect. It helps remove stains left behind by coffee and tea, plus works hard on those pesky red stains on plastics. Cascade uses an oxygen bleach which creates a very slow reaction, which works with catalysts that help speed up the process.

The Cascade Platinum ActionPacs, specifically, provide three times more film-fighting power than a national bargain brand to clean stuck-on foods in the first wash, helping to eliminate the need for pre-washing or any second wash. Cascade Platinum ActionPacs also help prevent hard-water filming, which keeps your dishwasher looking fresh, not to mention cleaning off food, fighting grease, and providing clean rinsing with its built-in rinse aid.

This time of year, we’re spring cleaning, so remember your dishwasher. Make sure you’re taking care of your dishes and dishwasher. You can buy Cascade products, including Cascade Platinum, anywhere dishwashing detergent is sold, including your local grocery and big box stores, and Amazon.

Dawn PowerWash Dish Soap-Ready for Spring Cleaning

March 8, 2020 By denise Leave a Comment

Disclosure: This is not a compensated or sponsored post. I was provided the product for review purposes only. All opinions expressed here are my own.

As we head towards Spring, our minds turn to Spring Cleaning and Dawn has a brand new product that is going to make your life in the kitchen so much easier. Spraying an amount of soap over the surface of a dirty dish allows you to target places that really need attention, rather than the usual method of applying soap to the general area using a sponge. I found it particularly nice when I needed to clean the bottom of a Dutch oven that had gotten some crusty bits on the bottom while I was making dinner. I used the Powerwash to spray the places that needed de-crustification, let it chill out in the sink for a little while as I did my other tidying up, and then used a sponge to swipe away the more stubborn hardened food.

Dawn has reinvented dish soap to make it easier than ever for people to get out of the kitchen and on with their lives with the release of new Dawn Powerwash Dish Spray.

Since the 1970’s, liquid Dawn dish soap has helped millions of Americans tackle kitchen clean-up after a messy meal. The brand regularly researches consumer habits, and according to that research the way people do dishes has slowly been changing since the brand launched more than 50 years ago. Today, more than half of Americans say they clean the dishes as they prepare food, instead of waiting for one big post-meal clean-up.

“Cleaning as you go is something we do all around our homes today to try and stay ahead of the mess,” says Kristine Decker, Brand Director for North America Dish Care at Procter & Gamble. “We saw this increasing trend as an exciting opportunity to invent a product designed to make cleaning dishes as you go faster and easier, so people can spend less time at the sink, and more time doing what’s important to them.”

Dawn’s innovation team spent more than five years designing a new spray foam formula that works on contact to remove food from dishes. While traditional dish soap needs to be combined with water to form suds, with Dawn Powerwash no water is required until the final rinse. The sprayer features a first-of-its-kind nozzle with a spray chamber that mixes the product with air to create suds that spread evenly over surfaces, loosening burnt-on, baked-on messes. The new, unique formula eliminates the need to soak dishes overnight, and studies show that it delivers five times faster grease cleaning than non-ultra Dawn. The design transforms the dishwashing experience, with three simple steps: spray, wipe, rinse.

Dawn Powerwash™ Dish Spray is designed as a refill model, with a reusable sprayer that disconnects from an empty bottle and can be easily attached to a 16 oz. refill. This design allows consumers to make a one-time purchase of a ‘Starter Kit’ with a sprayer and bottle, and then buy a refill in one of three scents: Fresh, Apple and Citrus.

Dawn Powerwash & Celebrity Chef Curtis Stone

With Dawn Powerwash™ Dish Spray, cleaning as you go is easier than ever. To prove it, the brand is partnering with award-winning chef Curtis Stone of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters and TLC’s Take Home Chef, and currently, Field Trip with Curtis Stone on PBS, to clean as he cooks with Dawn Powerwash™ Dish Spray.

“One of the first things that I learned at culinary school is the ‘clean as you go’ rule, which prevents messes from building up and removes clutter in the kitchen,” says Stone. “But sometimes burnt-on messes can be tough to clean without a proper soak. With Dawn Powerwash™ Dish Spray, there’s finally a product that will help professional chefs and at-home chefs alike keep their sink empty and kitchen clean so once the prep is done, so are the dishes.”

Together, Dawn and Curtis Stone are introducing a three-part recipe series, with each recipe designed to easily clean as you go, letting you sit down and enjoy the meal without kitchen clean-up hanging over your head. The recipe series focuses on some of the year’s most popular cooking occasions—and each recipe is specifically designed to make a mess, so you can see Dawn Powerwash™ Dish Spray in action!

In the midst of football season, Chef Stone will share how to make his favorite Ribeye Steak Sandwich with Caramelized Onions and how to clean as you go, so you don’t miss a single play.
On Valentine’s Day, Chef Stone will help you make your loved one a romantic Parisian breakfast featuring his beloved Croque Madame recipe.
Cold temperatures and snowy afternoons call for cozy meals inside. Curtis Stone’s Orecchiette with Roasted Vegetables, Lemon, and Brown Butter will help you heat up the kitchen this winter.