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How to Clean Garbage Disposal in 4 Simple Steps
For many, garbage disposals are a must-have in the kitchen. While they make the dishes a breeze, garbage disposal can quickly become a hotspot for germs and food debris. The disposal's nooks and crannies can collect leftover food particles, which can eventually lead...
How to Prevent and Remove Salt Stains This Winter
As one of the oldest tricks in the cold-weather arsenal, salt abounds during the winter months. From the first to the final snow, salt is generously added to sidewalks and roads. While it does help reduce slippery ice, salt can stick to your clothes and shoes—often...
Best Ways to Clean Surfaces During the Flu Season?
Sweater weather is here, and it has brought its annual cesspool of germs with it. It's sad but true; winter is when germs thrive. As the chilly weather continues, colds, flus, and other illnesses are sure to circulate through your community. Now's the time to ready...
Cleaning Carpets: How Often and How To
No matter the time of year, your carpets just can’t seem to catch a break. Mud, dust, spills, stains—your carpets have seen it all. To manage the mess, it’s important to give your carpet some love on the regular. Whether it’s a large area rug or wall-to-wall carpet,...
Fall Laundry Tips: How to Keep Clothes Fresh and Clean with Charlie’s Soap
You can feel it in the air. The time of pumpkin spice lattes, chilly weather, and changing leaves is approaching. For the folks at Charlie’s Soap, that can only mean one thing: the annual shift from summer to fall laundry is here. As you trade in colorful sundresses...
A Sparkling Exterior: How to Get and Keep Your Home Shining
Taking care of the exterior of your home can seem like a monumental task. From sidings to decks to windows, there’s a lot to scrub, scour, and polish. The good news? You’re not in this alone. Charlie’s Soap has got your back. With a little elbow grease, time, and some...
How (And How Often) to Clean a Lunch Box
School is back in session, and for many parents, that means preparing a bagged lunch. From planning out your student’s meals to adding a sweet note for a finishing touch, we know that you put the effort into your kid’s lunch. However, few parents think about cleaning...
How to Clean a Car Seat
There’s one warning every parent should receive before taking their child on a road trip; sticky toddler hands can do untold damage. Unsurprisingly, car seats often bear the brunt of the blow. Car seats are supposed to keep your kids safe, but, over time, they can...
How to clean baseboards: The most overlooked part of your cleaning routine
Few people have baseboards on their routine cleaning checklist. They’re easy enough to ignore—but clean baseboards can give your entire house a facelift. Baseboard cleaning is a great way to kickstart your spring cleaning projects. If it’s been a while since you’ve...
How to Remove Wax from a Tablecloth
A nice, candlelit dinner party. Your best white tablecloths. What could go wrong? The short answer—everything. Long-time cleaning veterans know that tablecloths bear the brunt of wear and tear, and candle wax is no exception. Cleaning wax from fabric can be a painful...
How to Get Pet Urine Out of Hardwood Floors
Stains are a common hazard with furry friends. Pet urine is a cleaning hassle no matter where it ends up, but hardwood floors are a particularly bad place for your pets to miss the litter box. Urine is acidic, so it can break down the finish of hardwood surfaces. It...
How to Get Laundry Detergent Stains Out of Clothes
If your laundry came out of the washer looking worse for wear, you’re not alone. It’s paradoxical, but many laundry detergents can leave a stain on your clothes. Full of added dyes, optical brighteners, and other fillers, subpar detergents can leave lots of residues...
How to Wash a White Hat
Between mud, dirt, and sweat stains, your favorite white sun hats, visors, and baseball hats get put through the ringer. White hats of every style can get scuffed, smudged, and stained. So, when your favorite white fedora falls into a muddy puddle, don’t panic. With a...
How to Clean Mud Stains Out of Clothes
Fall is here, and it brought its stormy weather messes with it. The next time your kid comes in with muddy clothes after playing in the rain, don’t panic. With a little help from Charlie’s soap, mud stains will be a thing of the past. Try out these simple steps to get...
How to Remove Chocolate Stains
Smores, ice cream sundaes, chocolate chip cookies: some of your kid’s favorite treats are also the messiest. Chocolate that begins in tiny, toddler hands ends up in unexpected places. Every parent knows how it goes: the mess starts with the shirt, and eventually, it’s...
How to Remove Crayon From Walls
6 Methods for Removing Crayon from Walls As your preschooler knows, art has no borders. While you sponsor their creative endeavors, you’ll likely end up with dozens of little masterpieces—some of which might be all over the white walls of your living room. Until your...
How to Wash Stuffed Animals
A Guide to Washing Stuffed Animals Where kids go, their favorite stuffed animals are sure to follow. As every parent knows, stuffed toys live in the splash zone, exposed to all the grime and germs that are a part of a child’s daily life. Clean stuffed animals may seem...
7 Secrets to Great Smelling Laundry
We’ve all been there - you pull your laundry out of the dryer, and somehow your clothes smell worse than before you put them in the washer! The reason this happened can be a bit of a mystery - but fear not - we’ve got the secret to great-smelling laundry. An April...
How to Treat Common Baby Stains
At Charlie's Soap, we realize just how busy life can be for mothers. Not only must moms care for their children and keep the household in order, but many also work full-time. Because moms are so busy, Charlie's Soap takes great pride in helping them any way we can. ...
How to Wash Shoes with Charlie’s Soap
Who doesn't love a new pair of shoes? Whether it be going to the gym to work out or dressing up for a nice dinner, new shoes are always a great touch. Yet, new shoes quickly get dirty and lose much of their original shine with just a few light outings. It's a good...
How to Wash Water-Proof Clothing
Outdoor fabric technology has gotten highly sophisticated over the past couple of decades. Today, equipment manufacturers make waterproof clothing for just about any outdoor activity. From heavy snow gear for skiing to lightweight materials for running, waterproof...
Washing Delicates Separately, Is it Necessary?
When it comes to doing laundry, the goal is to work efficiently while also getting your clothes properly clean. Nonetheless, it can be too easy for busy parents to cut corners on specific essential steps with laundry. There has been some discussion if you need to be...
How to Start Sustainable Habits in 2022
As we make our way into 2022, it's a great time to "hit the reset button" and start fresh. While many people make New Year's resolutions about personal health, Charlie's Soap wanted to shift awareness to protecting the environment. While most of us know we should...
How to Create a Laundry Schedule in the New Year
Working on laundry is one of the never-ending tasks. Even after collecting all your dirty clothes in the house, you will have another batch by evening. Not to mention if you have a big family, especially during the holidays! That said, handling laundry can be...