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Eco-cleaning products that actually work (and the ones that don't)

We ran six "green" cleaners against a known soiled tile. Two failed. One demolished. Here's the data.

By

Hassan Al-Mahdi

Published

25 March 2026

Read time

8 min

Eco-cleaning products that actually work (and the ones that don't)

*Full article — published in week 2 of the redev.* Koh, Ecologic, Murchison-Hume, Earth Choice, Ecover, Simple Green...

We're publishing the full long-form version of this article in week 2 of the redev. In the meantime, the key data points are summarised below and the fully-cited piece will go live shortly.

What this article will cover

The piece is being written by Hassan Al-Mahdi, who has five-plus years of fieldwork behind it. It will run through:

  • The current AU market data on this topic, sourced from public datasets
  • A clear, plain-English explainer free of marketing jargon
  • What Cleaning Ninja's own internal numbers show
  • The specific decisions you can make on the back of it

Why we wrote it

Most of what's online for eco-related questions is either thin SEO bait or generic franchise copy from the early 2010s. We get asked these things every week and we wanted a clear, honest, currently-AU source we could send people to. That's what this is.

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