disinfectant

  • When (and How) to Disinfect Your Carpet

    When (and How) to Disinfect Your Carpet

    We’ve talked a lot about the difference between regular old cleaning and more heavy-duty disinfecting and why it’s important to disinfect a variety of things you’re probably not disinfecting. And one thing that’s regularly cleaned but rarely disinfected is your carpet, which, when you think about it, is pretty damn gross. As a soft material,…


  • How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Germs Again

    How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Germs Again

    Concerns about germs have shaped the last year and a half of everybody’s life, one germ in particular: the virus that causes COVID-19. But the billions of other bacteria, viruses, and other microbes that surround us haven’t exactly ceased to exist. What do we really need to be afraid of? And how can we protect…