Bar Keepers Friend Cleanser Polish, 21 ounce can, front view.
Bar Keepers Friend powder cleanser polish, unlike its liquid cleanser counterpart, lacks any of that fruity sweet smell. It’s lowly imposing scent fades quickly after use. Plus, it does not grow strongeru when wetting this dry cleanser on a sponge. No bleach or lemon scent, and its chemical aroma, while distinctive, by no means shouts CLEAN. It just gently reminds us of clean. Here, we review Bar Keepers Friend cleanser, that details our own experiences with this product around the home.
Nonetheless, this Bar Keepers Friend® removes many hard-to-clean stains from most common surfaces such as copper, aluminum, ceramic, acrylic, fiberglass, and many others. It’s a multi-purpose dry cleanser for kitchen, bathroom, basement, and patio. Don’t fret over splattering it on your clothes, as it has no bleach. But do wear gloves when working with it for long periods, as it can irritate sensitive skin. Bar Keepers Friend cleanser is great for removing mildew, grease, lime, limescale, rust, hard water deposits, and soap scum from sinks, bath tubs, all types of shower stalls, glass and plastic shower doors, and so on.
We tested Bar Keepers Friend powder cleaner throughout our home. We find this product quite the versatile, though not terribly abrasive polish cleanser. It’s easier on the skin than some other cleansers. Indeed it contains reduced harsh chemicals like bleach, and gives off no strong fumes. Plus, a single 21 ounce can has enough powder to keep an acrylic bathtub sparkling clean for six months or longer.
The entire line of Bar Keepers Friend® cleaning products is reasonably priced though not the cheapest. It’s usually safe on most surfaces found throughout kitchens and bathroom, tough on dirt and stains, and simple to use. It saves lots of effort that you’d otherwise spend scrubbing. But without bleach, Bar Keepers Friend is not anti bacterial. Yet it is well revered for its polishing abilities as well as a gently abrasive cleaner.
Plenty fine powder and easy to sprinkle and poor. This powder cleaner features oxalic acid and micro-fine scrubbing particles. It has a slightly scratchy feel when rubbing between fingers. The grit here is almost too small to feel though, like when diluted on a water soaked sponge. This means that it cleans dirt without scratching surfaces much. This pure white powder looks like confectioners sugar. It’s dense, but still thin enough to dump and spread with ease. Not granular.
We most use this Bar Keepers Friend powder cleanser product in our small bathroom, for cleaning soap scum and hard water mineral deposits from the bathtub, sink, soap dispensers, shower doors, grouted tiles, and the toilet whenever a stubborn rust spot appears under the rim. BKF works well at removing the most common bathroom dirt and scum.
We keep a can under the sink when a really dirty pan arrives.
BKF is safe on nonstick coatings if you do not rub too hard.
Bar Keepers Friend is cheaper for cleaning glass cooktop stoves than the cleaners designed for that. Yet it seems to work just as well.
On dishwasher inside surfaces, this power cleanser gently removes hard water and soap build-up. For those stubborn baked-on food buildups, use Bar Keepers Friend powder as a scouring agent. But again, don’t scrub with too much elbow grease. Test first on a hidden oven surface to make sure that any scratching that occurs is not too much.
Bar Keepers Friend® powder polish shines up our dual stainless steel sinks in less than a minute of scrubbing and polishing.
Be careful when cleaning copper, aluminum, and brass items however. These are very soft metals. They will indeed dull if scoured too hard. If you must clean them with this product, then do so gently, and use caution.
This scented dry cleanser has a gentle but not off-putting smell, like a new pair of shoes. So you need not open windows or turn on exhaust fans while using it in confined spaces like a small bathroom. Plus, the scent does not hang around long enough to grow obnoxious. Within five minutes of rinsing, its smell goes away.
We’ve never scratched any bathroom or kitchen surface with BKF. Yet it has well cleaned almost every surface tested. Plus, with care, Bar Keepers Friend® polishes aluminum, copper, brass, silver, wood, painted surfaces, and rubber items. in general, we suggest that you avoid cleaning these with this product as discoloration and other damages might happen. Always test on concealed areas first.
Works just as well when applied with a rag as with a sponge. We prefer rags, just because we can better feel, through the rag, the state of what we’re scrubbing, and can more rapidly tell when all stuck on food and grime has been scoured away.
Rinses away completely, and quickly with little water. This BKF polish formula rinses even faster and more easily, with its smaller, less abrasive particles.
This household cleaner is sold in most any larger grocery or home improvement store. We get ours at Walmart.
Works well for years. But do store in a cool, dry place so the cleaning powder does not clump and cake.
We bought a fresh can only to find that the powder inside had clumped into small, pinhead sized lumps which would often roll off the edge of our stove top while cleaning.
This polish can indeed scratch if you rub too hard while cleaning certain surfaces like soft metals and plastics. So, rub no harder than you must, and as mentioned, do test the surfaces first.
Has no bleach. So we do not rely on it for disinfecting. For that. we follow up BKF cleanser with a spray bleach cleaner.
We like Bar Keepers Friend powder cleanser. While it’s not the most affordable cleaning product on the market (ours cost about a dollar more per can than Comet Cleanser), its price approximates average for this type of product. The extra dollar may be due to the added polishing feature of this BKF cleaner. But this modernized product, even with its dissolving, smaller scrubbing particles, still cleans effectively, and without nearly as much risk of scratching. Today’s Bar Keepers Friend polish cleanser is engineered for today’s delicate appliance surfaces as well. Indeed, they’ve kept up with the times, thus. So we’d therefore rate this cleanser at 95 out of 100.
Look for it in the gold and silver 21 ounce can with the blue label with blue and white lettering, at Walmart or other larger grocery centers and home stores.
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