Reviews
55 products written up in full. What the problem is, what the thing physically does about it, and where it falls down.
- Car · Week of Aug 19CAR GUYS Interior Car Cleaner, 18 oz
You vacuumed. You went over the seat twice, you got the crumbs out of the seam with the crevice tool, and when you stood back the fabric still had that dull grey cast across the...
- Home · Week of Aug 19Flitz Instant Brass and Copper Tarnish Remover, 16 oz
It was probably not tarnished when you got it. Brass and copper come out of a box bright, and the change is slow enough that you do not see it happen. Then one day the lamp base is...
- Home · Week of Aug 19Drain Snake Hair Clog Remover Tool Set, 9 Pack
You poured the bottle in. You waited the twenty minutes on the label, you ran the hot tap, and the water went down a bit faster for about a week. Then it was slow again, and the...
- Car · Week of Aug 19Chemical Guys Headlight Restore and Protect
You have seen the trick with toothpaste. It works, briefly. The lens comes up noticeably clearer, you feel clever, and within about two months it is yellow again and possibly...
- Home · Week of Aug 19Sugelary Drywall Patch Repair Kit with Scraper
The classic failure is not the hole. It is the patch. You fill it, it looks level, it dries, and now there is a slightly sunken circle catching a shadow in exactly the spot you were...
- Car · Week of Aug 19Carfidant Scratch and Swirl Remover
Before anything else, do the fingernail test, because it decides whether this product can help you at all. Run a nail lightly across the scratch. If it catches, stop reading. If it...
- Home · Week of Aug 19RMR-86 Pro Contractor Grade Mold and Mildew Stain Remover
The pressure washer is the instinct and it is the thing to be careful about. Black staining on siding, a fence, or a north-facing wall is organic growth with roots into a porous...
- Home · Week of Aug 19Pumice Stone for Toilet Cleaning, Extra Long Handle, 2 Pack
The ring will not come off with the brush, and the reason is that it is not dirt. Below the water line in a bowl, dissolved minerals in the water come out of solution and deposit as...
- Home · Week of Aug 18BISSELL Little Green Max Pet SmartMix Carpet Cleaner
You cleaned the spot. You got down there with a cloth and something in a spray bottle, you worked at it until the carpet went pale, and it looked finished while it was wet. Two days...
- Home · Week of Aug 18Furniture Repair Kit Wood Markers, Set of 13
There is a scratch on your table you no longer see. It happened during a move, or a chair went back too fast, and for a week it was the first thing you looked at. Now it is...
- Car · Week of Aug 18Chemical Guys Diablo Brake Dust and Wheel Cleaner, 2 x 16 oz
You washed the car on Saturday. By Wednesday the wheels look like you did not, and the rest of the car still looks fine. That is the part that annoys people, and it makes it feel...
- Home · Week of Aug 18Green Gobbler Ultra Concentrated Drain Clog Remover
The water in the sink is going down, just slowly enough that you notice. You have poured something down there before. It helped for about a fortnight and then you were back to...
- Home · Week of Aug 18Holikme Dryer Vent Cleaner Kit, 30 Ft
Your dryer takes two cycles now. You have started running it twice without thinking about it, and you have probably decided the machine is getting old. Ninety percent of the time...
- Kitchen · Week of Aug 18Weiman Stainless Steel Cleaner and Polisher, 30 Wipes
You wipe the fridge door and it looks worse. There is now a haze across it, you can see every pass you made, and within a day the handprints are back exactly where they were. The...
- Home · Week of Aug 18Crevice Cleaning Brush, 12 Pack
Open a window and look down. There is a channel under the frame with something in it that is no longer identifiable, packed into the corners and flat against the bottom. You have...
- Kitchen · Week of Aug 18Easy-Off Heavy Duty Degreaser, 32 oz
There is a film on the wall above your hob and on the extractor hood. It is faintly tan, it is slightly tacky, and it does not come off with the spray you use on the worktops. Most...
- Kitchen · Week of Aug 18Garbage Disposal Cleaner Deodorizer Tablets, 24 Pack
Something smells in your kitchen and you cannot find it. The bin is empty, the surfaces are clean, and it is worse when the tap runs. You have poured bleach down the sink and it...
- Home · Week of Aug 18Tide Washing Machine Cleaner with Oxi, 52 Week Supply
Your clothes come out of the wash smelling faintly of the machine. Not dirty exactly, just musty, worse on towels, worst after something has been left in the drum overnight. You...
- Kitchen · Week of Aug 18Work Sharp Professional Precision Adjust Knife Sharpener Kit
Your knife slipped. It skated off the skin of a tomato and went sideways, and for a second that was frightening. The instinct after that is to be more careful with it, which is...
- Pets · Week of Aug 18Resolve Urine Destroyer Spray, Pet Stain and Odor Remover
You found it, you cleaned it up, you used something that smelled strongly of lemon, and the carpet looked fine. Then they went back to the same spot. To you the problem was solved....
- Home · Week of Aug 18Zevo MAX Bug Catcher, Gnat and Fruit Fly Trap
You never see where they come from. There are two of them by the fruit bowl, then there are nine, and swatting is pointless because the ones flying are a fraction of what is...
- Home · Week of Aug 15Iron OUT Rust Stain Remover Spray with Cling
You have already tried. The powder, the green pad, a long stretch bent over the basin with your forearm doing all the work. While it is wet the orange looks like it is going. Then...
- Home · Week of Aug 15RMR-86 Instant Mold and Mildew Stain Remover
You have scrubbed that line where the tub meets the wall. Toothbrush, paste of something, twenty minutes on your knees, and it goes pale for a day before the black comes back in...
- Home · Week of Aug 15Grout Pen White Tile Grout Paint Marker
You have already scrubbed it. Bleach first, then a paste of something, then a stiff brush and both knees on a wet floor. The tile came up fine. The lines between the tile stayed...
- Home · Week of Aug 15Delamu 2-Tier Under Sink Organizer, 2 Pack
You open the cabinet under the sink and you are looking at a front row. One row. Everything else is behind it in the dark, and finding anything means pulling that front row onto the...
- Kitchen · Week of Aug 15Pots and Pans Organizer Under Cabinet, 8-Tier
Open the cabinet where your pans live and look at what is happening in there. The pans are stacked inside each other, and the one on top is the one you cooked with last night. So...
- Kitchen · Week of Aug 15Sealing Bag Clips for Food Packages, 32 Pack
You roll the top of the bread bag down and tuck it under the loaf. It looks closed. It is not closed. The fold only holds while the weight of the bag sits on it, and the moment you...
- Kitchen · Week of Aug 15YouCopia StoraLid Food Container Lid Organizer
You open the cabinet with one hand because the other one is holding a bowl of leftovers, and the lids come down. Not one lid. The whole leaning stack. And then you are on the floor...
- Home · Week of Aug 15Cushioned Anti Fatigue Kitchen Mat
You start the dishes standing square on both feet. Ten minutes later you are leaning on one hip against the counter edge, then swapping to the other side, then standing on the...
- Home · Week of Aug 15O2COOL Mist N Sip 20 oz Misting Sports Bottle
You finish the yard in August and your body is still cooking ten minutes after you sit down. So you drink. The water goes down and your face and the back of your neck feel exactly...
- Tech · Week of Aug 15RovyVon A3 Gen 4 Keychain Flashlight, 650 Lumens
It is dark, and the thing you need to see is not right in front of you. The gap behind the dryer. The far end of the yard where the dog will not stop barking. You raise your phone...
- Home · Week of Aug 14BEAUTURAL Fabric Shaver and Lint Remover
You pull a sweater out in the first cold week and something about it reads old. Nothing is torn. The color looks dulled, the surface looks fogged, and you put it back and reach for...
- Pets · Week of Aug 14Pieviev Cat Litter Mat, Double-Layer Waterproof
You keep finding litter in rooms the cat has no reason to enter. A granule under a bare foot in the hallway. Something gritty in the kitchen at two in the morning. It gets there on...
- Car · Week of Aug 14CarGuys Plastic Restorer
You washed the car and the paint came up fine. The trim did not. The bumper cladding, the mirror caps, the strip along the bottom of the doors: all of it sits somewhere between grey...
- Beauty · Week of Aug 14Dr. Scholl's Callus Remover Electronic Foot File
You notice it getting dressed. The sock goes on fine over the toes and then catches at the back of the heel, and you have to work it past a patch of skin that has quietly turned...
- Home · Week of Aug 14Grampa's Weeder Original Stand Up Weed Puller Tool
The dandelion in the middle of the lawn gives you the leaves and nothing else. The top snaps off at the crown, you stand there holding a handful of greenery, and the root is still...
- Home · Week of Aug 14JustHang Shower Squeegee with Built-in Hook, 10-Inch Black
You clean the glass on a Saturday. By Tuesday the same cloudy patches are back, in the same places, low on the panel and along the bottom of the door. So you buy a stronger spray....
- Home · Week of Aug 14Vacbird Rechargeable Wireless Pump Travel Storage Bags Set
The coats are still on the rail in July. Three or four of them, holding hanging space for a season four months out. Sweaters are worse. They do not hang, so they sit on a shelf in a...
- Home · Week of Aug 14Wright's by Weiman Silver Cleaner and Polish Cream
You open the box someone left you and everything in it has gone the color of a storm cloud. The flatware is dark in every groove. So you decide it sat too long and it is gone, and...
- Home · Week of Aug 14Starter Shoe Cleaner Kit, Cleaner and Conditioner
There is a pair in your closet you have not worn in months. Nothing is wrong with them. The laces are fine, the tread is fine, and you would still call them good shoes. But the...
- Home · Week of Aug 14Drywall Repair Kit, 2-Pack Wall Mending Agent
You do not really see the holes until the room is empty. A year of picture hooks, one curtain rod, the shelf that went up fast and came down faster. None of it registered with...
- Home · Week of Aug 10Broom and Dustpan Set, Self-Cleaning with Dustpan Teeth
You sweep the pile up, and half of it is still in the broom.
- Pets · Week of Aug 10Uproot Clean Pro Pet Hair Removal Tool
Vacuuming a rug that a dog sleeps on feels like it works, right up until the light changes and you see what is still in there.
- Pets · Week of Aug 10MR.SIGA Pet Hair Removal Rubber Broom
A normal broom moves pet hair around a hard floor in a cloud, because stiff bristles push as much air as they do hair, and hair is light enough to ride it. The pile you end up with...
- Pets · Week of Aug 10Electrostatic Reusable Pet Hair Removal Glove
Lint rollers run out. That is the whole problem with them, and it is why there is one in a drawer somewhere in your house, half used and stuck to itself. The vacuum you reach for...
- Pets · Week of Aug 10oneisall Dog Grooming Vacuum, 7 Tools
Brushing a shedding dog indoors does not remove hair from your house. It moves it off the animal and into the air, and from there onto everything downwind for the rest of the week.
- Pets · Week of Aug 10Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Cordless Hand Vacuum
Cordless hand vacuums usually fail on the exact surface you bought one for. They glide across a cushion, lift the loose hair sitting on top, and leave the embedded hair precisely...
- Car · Week of Aug 10Analan Mini Pet Hair Remover for Car Detailing
Car carpet is the worst surface in your life for pet hair. The fibres are short, dense and bonded to the floor, and anything wound down into them is staying there. A shop vacuum...
- Pets · Week of Aug 10Dexas MudBuster Dog Paw Cleaner, Medium
The mud does not come in on the dog. It comes in on four paws that walk the whole length of your hallway before you catch up with a towel.
- Home · Week of Aug 10TubShroom Ultra Drain Protector and Hair Catcher
A flat drain cover catches hair on top of itself, in plain view, where you have to look at it and then pick it up. That is the one that ends up in the cabinet under the sink.
- Pets · Week of Aug 10FurZapper Pet Hair Remover for Laundry, 2 Pack
You wash the sweatshirt and it comes out still wearing the dog. Hair in a wash does not rinse away, it moves. One furry pair of pants goes in and the whole load comes out furred,...
- Car · The Car Wash You Skipped3D Bug Remover, Enzyme-Based Bug Cleaner, 16 oz
You washed the car on Saturday and the front bumper still looks like it drove through a swarm, because it did. A wash slides over bug bodies. They sat in the sun for a week, dried...
- Home · The Stuff You Stopped NoticingZep Grout Cleaner and Brightener, 32 oz
The tile looks clean and the grout does not. You mop, the floor dries, and the lines between the tiles are still grey, because the mop rides over the grout and never gets down into...
- Home · The Stuff You Stopped Noticing30 SECONDS Pro Mold & Mildew Stain Remover
The black creeping along the caulk line in the shower is mildew, and it does not come off with the sponge you clean the tub with. You wipe it, it looks a little better, and by the...
- Home · The Stuff You Stopped NoticingFeilove 4-in-1 Mink Oil Leather Conditioner & Cleaner, 3.52 oz
The boots still fit and still work, but they have gone grey and thirsty looking. Leather is a skin, and like a skin it dries out; the oils that gave it that deep, rich look...