Do you still use Comet to clean things?

[quote]After about 5 minutes of this, I’d had enough.

"Get the hell outta here and don' come back!"

[quote]I’ve always used it, but a friend was over here and saw my cleaning products and started ranting about how they were “toxic” and “bad for the environment.” After about 5 minutes of this, I’d had enough.

How long would he have gone on for if you'd let him?

[quote]I’ll stick with Comet, Lysol, and Clorox, just like my grandmother used.

As long as you don't squeeze the Charmin, I don't care what the fuck you do.

OP >

I just bought an army of toxic chemicals to kill Japanese knot weed and spotted lantern flies.

They should be so lucky to only see Lysol and bleach and Comet.

I prefer a cream cleanser. I'm also keen on bleach for more stubborn stains on stained tea pots and coffee cups, for example.

Don’t use Comet but as a child, my siblings and I used to sing this song:

Comet: makes your teeth turn red! Comet: makes you wet the bed! Comet: makes you vomit! So get some Comet and vomit todaaaaaay!

Yes.

You too R7? Ours was “green/smells like kerosene.”

I stick with the products my parents used to clean. They taught me how to clean everything, which is helpful because my spouse was raised not to lift a finger. I even use bluing in the laundry.

I use Bon Ami.

I only use POST-WAR Old Dutch cleanser. Like Joan Crawford told me to.

no, not ususally as I have a resurfaced bathtub and you can only use a few cleaning products with it. I use scrubbing bubbles. I do use conet to clean out a stainless steel kitchen sink when its gets to be a real mess.

My rubber bath mat eventually “grew” into the tub surface, and I couldn’t get it out with Soft Scrub, so I took out an ancient can of Comit, which usually works for bad stains with elbow grease, but did not. Then I bought acetone (nail polish remover). It even dissolves grout. That worked to get rid of whatever was left over. I love my tub. I put it in new in 2007, and it’s still unscratched.

Hippies and ethnics, oh my!

Jesus. Now I have to question my Comet use.

I hereby resolve to forget that you ever wrote those words, OP, and I certainly do not recall ever reading them.

OP = Robby Benson

Fresh semen...it looks like Ivory Liquid, but it smells like Comet.

I prefer Ajax.

I’ll use it, but I like Bon Ami.

Yes I do use Comet but prefer Bon Ami, which I could not find find last time. Love Glass Wax for mirrors and chrome.

Barkeeper's Friend for my sinks, but elsewhere, just Lysol or Clorox cleaning sprays.

My grandmother also used the powdered Spic and Span. I always loved the smell of it, though when I buy it these days, I get the spray version, just for some basic cleaning.

[quote] I’ll use it, but I like Bon Ami.

Pfft. Bon Ami won't even clean blood off organ keys.

For you gays, you will LOVE THIS.

[quote]None of the bullshit these hippies and ethnics want to cram down our throats to a damn thing. Just consider the source.

Stealth racebaiting thread or a bad attempt at humor?

There was someone on the quarantine grocery shopping threads who insisted no one ever used Lysol to clean anything anymore. I like their bathroom cleaner, it works pretty well, and their toilet bowl cleaner is the best.

I do use Comet on my stainless steel sink but nowhere else.

I miss grabbits

There's always Zud

I'm with you, OP. Pine-Sol, Spic and Span, and Comet.

yes, i use comet. i also use liquid plumr if the plunger doesn't work.

Does comet scratch a tub? That’s why I don’t use it regularly. Fear of scratches.

I almost lost my mind while living in my 1 bath condo when I had the bathroom gutted and rebuilt in 2007. I was showering at the gym. Then, my mother died in the middle of the project. It was amazing I didn’t kill someone.

[quote] hippies and ethnics

I was with you up until this. Comet is great, but it can't clean racist shitstains.

Bar Keepers Friend is the only powdered cleanser I use. it is infinitely better than Comet or Ajax or any other powdered product. One warning to those who've never used it. WEAR GLOVES! It will eat your skin up if you don't. That's why it works.

OP, get back into your bathroom and ‘Clean Up That Mess!”

I like "Gold Dust"

I have a stainless steel sink in the house I bought a few years ago. It was pretty cruddy when I moved in and I thought it would get replaced without delay. But when cleaning it so that I could use it in the interim, since I was going to replace the sink anyway, I used a wire wheel brush on my electric drill on the sink to knock off years of someone else's detritus.

In five minutes, the sink looked brand new. Replacing it fell to the bottom of my list of things to deal with as I live in this house. About once a year, I hit it again with the wire wheel brush. Walla!

Get a light duty brush if you want to try this. There are a number of different weights and a heavy duty brush might damage your sink.

I tried Comet on my pussy, but it still stinks.

Try the wire brush and the drill, Cheryl.

I like Barkeeper’s Friend better but have at least 3 large cans of Comet left from a Costco purchase years ago

My mother and grandmother used it at home. I never liked the smell. In roommate situations for ~10 years, I usually did the cooking, and someone else did the cleaning, so I cleaned with whatever they chose. On my own, the minute I discovered those scrubbing bubbles, those became my bathroom cleanser of choice.

Later on, when I bought my own cookware, I used lemon fresh Joy on a Dobie sponge for my Le Creuset. For bare cast iron, I used salt. Joy for d/w by hand, Cascade by machine. Ivory Soap for my bod. I was a P&G boy, as my mother and grandmother had been P&G girls.

Now I use Barkeeper's Friend. It's recommended by All-Clad to get those unique stainless steel stains out of your cookware. I use it for anything stainless or porcelain. I don't have the problem someone described above with it eating the skin off my hands, thankfully. It's never occurred to me to use gloves.

Bon Ami is the only cleanser I have a bad reaction to—non-smell reaction, that is. If I get even a little bit in one of my eyes, it's SO annoying.

So, no, OP, I do not still use Comet. Haven't since, oh, 1981.

But don't come cleaning my house with it, Consuela OP. Just gag and die in your own shithole bathroom.

Here comes the pinko at R41. Your bathroom “cleaners” make out of herbs and fairy dust simply don’t get the job done.

Look, we all know that hippies/Communists and ethnic people (aka non-WASPs) don’t practice good hygiene. Europeans don’t even bathe regularly. Lord only knows about the others. There’s no need to throw around ugly words like “racism.”

R42 is a paranoid schizophrenic with OCD.

I use it also. Please continue to do so, as it really cleans things well. My question though is how are you buying it? It does not exist in my store, along with a multitude of other cleaning items now.

My gal has specific instructions to use only powdered cleansers on our sinks and tubs. Our first preference being Comet but if that is not available she may purchase Ajax then Bar Keepers Cunt.

R44, I’ve been doing my weekly grocery shopping online and having it delivered. It’s in stock. However, I haven’t been able to get rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide in months.

[quote]detritus

Really, gurl?!?!

You bet!

Write to your congresspeople to allow ethanol to be used as rubbing alcohol as fewer people are driving these days.

That's not true. Traffic has gone up to 90% of pre covid levels, and projected to surge past 100% since the CDC recommends not taking public transport.

Mother swears by Comet. It's what we grew up with so it follows. It's best for cleaning out the bathtubs and sinks like someone mentioned. Scratching the bath tub?? I need the abrasion for stains.

Kill a small child?? I had a TERRIBLE habit of eating Comet when I was a small child. My mother and sister used to panic! I liked the powdery green taste! 😋😋😋

If Comet was good enough to give my grandmother cancer, it's good enough to give me cancer

R10 My parents taught me how to clean well, but left me woefully inadequate in the laundry department. Would you mind giving me a crash course? I have some white towels that are starting to get a little dingy despite always washing them on the “Bright Whites” cycle on my laundry machine. Should I use bleach to get them whiter— won’t that eat the material? Or bluing? Both seem a little scary to me so I would appreciate some DL expertise!

R53, honey, every queen knows good linen is hard to maintain. It was a lesson I had to learn myself. Yes, use bleach on those white towels and wash them in a load all on their own. Make sure the water is hot because not every "Whites" cycle machine uses hot water. Blueing will happen, but you'll have moved on to higher thread counts by then. 💁🏾‍♂️

r24

Too funny

It makes you vomit.

So buy some COMET

And VOMIT

TODAY!

Comet smells but it sure gets the stain out better than the diluted liquid cleanser.

[quote]these hippies and ethnics

Do you wear a white hood when you clean your toilet?