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As the weather warms and the days become sunny and drier there is the urge to open windows and spring-clean the house. Armed with bucket, cloths and cleaning products we proceed to tackle the grime that has built-up over the cold winter months.  The thought of a gleaming home to welcome in summer is appealing, but, for many this presents a twofold problem; we want our home to be clean and to be free of germs, but we don’t really want it nor the environment covered in chemicals.  So can we learn anything from times past about how to keep our homes hygienic and clean?

Every week we seem to see articles in the press and in the news about the increasing prevalence of Asthma and a multitude of allergies blighting people’s lives all over the country.

According to Allergy UK the numbers of sufferers now runs into millions with many small children now becoming sensitized almost from birth.

The choice of treatments being various, drugs for Asthma and allergies often involving steroid treatment certainly in the case of eczema or costly barrier methods with various degrees of efficacy.

Many people find household cleaning a chore, if you enjoy it perhaps you are lucky! The problem seems to be so many methods and techniques are required to clean our homes from top to bottom for example a mop and bucket for the kitchen floor, carpet cleaning sprays for the red wine on the lounge carpet, Mr Muscle for the oven, soapy water or sprays for the windows and not getting perfect results even then, bleach for the bathroom and toilet and perhaps expensive freezing specialists coming in to treat our beds if we are sensitive to household dust mites.

The long established market pioneer and leader in domestic steam cleaning and steam generator irons that sadly closed its doors in 2009 has been launched by the market innovators Innovation Home Products.

IHP having many years of experience under its belt in the consumer steam market is very excited to have already launched Domotec products onto the market and is already seeing great success with its quality, value lines focused on making our lives easier by alleviating house hold chores supported with great after sales care.

Having bought a domestic steam cleaner recently I found that many of my friends had no idea what I was talking about when I was describing my steamers various attributes so thought it would be useful to provide a short glossary of ‘steamy’ terminology.