Handy cleaning tips to help you spruce up your home

1. For a super-efficient spring clean, wipe down cupboards on the inside as well as the outside. These areas are cleaned less often so food residue or marks can be hard to remove. Cif Power Cream can shift even the toughest stains and a directable nozzle for hard-to-reach corners.

2. Sunnier days make you feel like entertaining. Revive a downstairs cloakroom and ensure it's clean and welcoming for guests by spraying the tiles, taps and basin with Cif Power Cream Bathroom. It easily removes water marks and limescale without damaging surfaces, giving gleaming results.  

3. Ensure your guestroom is fragrant and inviting. Leave the window open for a while to let in fresh air, give it a good clean, and add a vase of scented flowers. Avoid a musty smell by making up the bed at the last moment with crisp ironed sheets sprinkled with a little lavender water.

4. With warmer weather on its way, you'll need to keep all areas of your home clean and fresh-smelling. Bins are places where dirt and germs accumulate. Wipe down the inside and outside with powerful Domestos Bleach Cleaning Spray every time you empty them,.

5. If you're thinking of selling your home this spring, remember first impressions count. So make sure every room is spotlessly clean and uncluttered. Vacuum and dust thoroughly and get all surfaces gleaming in the kitchen and bathroom. Cif Power Cream Kitchen and Bathroom Sprays have Active Shield technology, which covers surfaces with a protective film to help prevent further build-up of dirt.

6. Encourage your children to help with chores that are appropriate to their ages. If they start to fidget at the end of a meal, getting them to help with clearing plates can be a great way to harness that energy constructively. If your children are very young,inject a bit of fun into tidying toys away by seeing who can put the most away first. For older children, pairing socks with you, or folding towels and sheets together can also be fun. Setting a specific cleaning task for them to do will encourage them to do it as well as they can.

7. Revive kitchen or bathroom tiles by giving them a good clean, then running a white or coloured grout pen (from hardware shops) along the joint.

8. To make cleaning much speedier, use a product that will keep on working after the initial squirt to prevent grime build-up. Cif Power Cream has an invisible Active Shield that protects surfaces so dirt slides off. Buy one specifically for your kitchen and one for your bathroom, with added you great results when you clean, and make the job quicker and easier next time round. 

9. Limescale is hard to remove once it's present. Prevent any build-up by cleaning with Cif Power Cream with Active Shield Bathroom, which has an invisible layer to protect surfaces. Always keep an old toothbrush somewhere handy and use it for scrubbing lightly round taps and showerattachments or any other places where limescale is likely to form.

10.  Soap residue takes the shine off a bathroom, so keep tiles, taps and fittings looking polished from top to bottom. Get the family into the habit of using a squeegee after each shower and wiping water drops from taps.