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Hi all,

Was thinking about cleaning products. I make my own using baking powder and such, but just came across a copper cleaning cloth on the 'Net. I was thinking that I would prefer such a product, even to my homemade eco-friendly cleaning ones, because it means less stuff to buy (that was manufactured).

I found one that is 100% recyclable.

Anyone use one of these? How effective are they, do they really not scratch stainless steel, etc?

I haven't heard of these - do you have a link??

Do they work in the same way as the silver ones?
I've got a silver cloth that i've had for years. Its microfibre and impregnated with something. They don't say what. (they might do now, after the legislation). It's lasted well and does a fair job. It better than brasso or stuff like that because it doesn't smell and cover your hands in stuff.

Fourth item down:
http://www.spiritofnature.co.uk/acatalog/kitchen.html

Can't find them elsewhere.

aaah, cloths made of copper!

nope, never tried them...

I'd like to give one a try! I use e-cloths at the moment and I do like them.

We used to be able to buy something similar, but they were made of wirewool, brass or stainless steel. They were more of a pad than a flat cloth. The brass ones were never popular as they left brass marks on what ever you were cleaning. The wirewool ones were also impregnated with a type of soap to make it easier, but they went rusty after a time. Stainless were the best. In the army we had cloths that we used to clean our brass that had the cleaning agent in it.

Robin

These don't seem to be impregnated with any detergent, which is another thing that attracts me to them.

I remember wire wool pads with soap in them from my childhood.

You could always use Loofahs which won't scratch non-stick. I bought some seeds this year but they didn't germinate

good point about the loofahs - I bought one and it worked quite well... found some seeds inside too but dunno where they disappeared to.

pskipper wrote:You could always use Loofahs which won't scratch non-stick. I bought some seeds this year but they didn't germinate

A whole different product to research! Right now just wondering about copper cloths.

ohareward wrote:We used to be able to buy something similar, but they were made of wirewool, brass or stainless steel. They were more of a pad than a flat cloth.

brillo pads!

Nikki wrote:

pskipper wrote:You could always use Loofahs which won't scratch non-stick. I bought some seeds this year but they didn't germinate

A whole different product to research! Right now just wondering about copper cloths.

I tried growing one once, didn't work either. I might give it another go though, different climate and all that.

I tried growing one once, didn't work either. I might give it another go though, different climate and all that.

Quite excited, one of them germinated :) Will just have to see whether it grows/survives!