While a glowing tree, soothing Christmas carols, plenty of goodies and drinks add to the magic of Christmas, additional guests and extravagant meals can also leave unwanted stains and stains.
But listen! Cleaning Angels Sing: Our extensive and expert tests show the best products to keep your home tidy for Christmas with minimal effort.
From dish soap and dishwasher tabs to carpet stain removers and vacuum cleaners, we've tested all of the products you need to get your home working again and enjoy the holiday season.
Whether you're faced with sauce-encrusted cookie sheets or a carpet covered in pine needles, read on for our top tips.
Washing up after Christmas dinner
Those in charge of the Christmas dinner are likely to be confronted with charred toasters and the fat from fried potatoes and turkey.
Nobody wants to miss the Queen's speech because she's stuck in the sink scrubbing baked goods. That's why we've highlighted the best dishwashing detergents to help you tackle the toughest jobs.
Cooked fat is the most difficult food to remove by hand, but our dishwashing detergent tests include a "hard fat" item that evaluates each product's ability to remove hard materials. Choosing the best liquid for your job will save you time at the sink.
Only our four Best Buy detergents performed well in this part of the test. Two budget options are less than £ 1 a bottle, so you have more in your budget for a few Brussels sprouts.
To find out what products we are talking about, head over to our Best Buy Dishwashing Detergents .
Get the most out of your dishwasher for Christmas
If you prefer to put everything in the dishwasher and go straight back to the fun of the party, you want to be sure that your dishes shine sparklingly at the end of the wash cycle.
This three-step approach points you in the right direction:
Step one: prepare as much food as you can in advance to reduce the number of dishes you have to prepare on Christmas Day.
Step Two: Before you sit down to eat your holiday treat, put your dirtiest baking utensils on the heavy duty cycle (if they are dishwasher safe). This should remove the plates and pans from your to-do list.
Step Three: Use a gentle post-dinner wash to clean your fancy plates, cutlery, and glasses. Depending on the dishwasher, you can also add champagne glasses to this rinse cycle.
Load Your Dishwasher This Christmas - For more tips, including the best way to wash champagne glasses.
Check out our dishwasher tablet reviews to find out which brands were perfectly clean in our tests.
Fight stains all over the house
With more people in the house and an abundance of drinks and snacks, the likelihood of stains and stains is higher than normal.
While cleaning the wrapping paper, you might find half-eaten pieces of chocolate that one of Santa's little helpers hastily tossed and now melted on the carpet.
Perhaps the combination of an afternoon nap and a forgotten glass of wine will ruin your carpet.
Don't worry if you need to do an emergency hand cleaning. Follow our tips to restore the freshness of your carpet:
- Start at the edge of the stain and work your way inward.
- Dab away the stain. never rub it.
- Use a carpet stain remover - apply small amounts at once with a cloth. Do not apply directly to the stain; Use a small brush or sponge to work the stain.
- Then rinse well to avoid stain remover residue on the carpet.
- Finish the area by drying the area with a hair dryer if possible.
Check out our picks of the best carpet stain removers to find the products that do the job right.
Clean Christmas tree needles
A natural Christmas tree fills your home with festive joy, but also leaves behind annoying pine needles. If you can put it on a hard floor, it will take a lot less cleaning time, but the needles in your carpet will be a lot more work.
Our comprehensive guide to choosing a Christmas tree contains tips on how to properly care for your Christmas tree during the Christmas season and how to make it after the season. Follow these care tips to reduce the number of needles that will fall out during this time.
However, some changes are inevitable. Here are our tips to help you get used to it quickly so you can have fun again:
- Consider a tree skirt - it sits around the base of the tree and catches the needles as they fall, meaning you don't have to remove them from the carpet if the tree is felled.
- Use the hose nozzle on your vacuum cleaner - pine needles are no friends with vacuum cleaners, not even Best Buy vacuums. Avoid running the main suction head directly over it as it can get caught in the rollers and potentially cause damage. Instead, vacuum them with the hose connection open.
- Tape 'em up - If you've got a carpet full of pine needles and you think your vacuum cleaner won't be able to handle it, a roll of duct tape might be the solution. Tape your hands sticky side out and tap around the base of the tree to catch any needles that have fallen.
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