It may look innocent, but the kitchen sponge is often the nastiest thing in a kitchen, and the main reason is that people use ...

A kitchen sponge is one of the dirtiest items in your home. Learn how to clean a kitchen sponge and tell when it's time to toss it. Getty Images One of the hardest working tools in the kitchen is a ...

Even if you know instinctively that your kitchen sponge can get pretty nasty, the numbers still might shock you: 54 billion ...

If you had to rank the dirtiest things in your home, you’d probably start with the bathroom—the toilet, the plunger, or the hand towels you don’t wash as often as you should. But as it turns out, if ...

Doing the dishes might be one of the most hated household chores in the country (at least, according to a survey by the American Cleaning Institute), and I get it. I’m also about to make that ...

According to cleaning experts this is what you need to know about how often you should be changing your sponge as well as how to clean it. “The thing you use to clean other items is more than often ...

Kitchen sponges are teeming with microbes, and microwaving them or washing them in hot water doesn't work to kill those germs. A new study by researchers in Germany took samples from 14 used kitchen ...

Your kitchen sponge is disgusting. Chuck Gerba, professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, told the BBC in 2012 that a kitchen sponge is 200,000 times dirtier than a toilet seat. Now, ...

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Scientists have long thrown shade at the unassuming kitchen sponge. The household staple skulks in sinks amid dirty dishes and soggy food scraps, sopping up and amplifying microbial forces capable of ...

When it comes to housekeeping, you may have inherited some lessons from your parents that are not the best practices. Here is a list of 10 bad habits you may have learned from mom and dad that are ...