Basic H Product Review

I am excited to share with you a new product that Jennifer of Blissfully Ever After, introduced me to. Ever since I started blogging I have read so much about Shaklee products and how wonderful they are. Personally I’m always skeptical about a product until I try it out for myself, which is why I was excited when one of my readers contacted me about a month ago to see if I wanted to try Shaklee’s Basic H. Have you heard of Basic H? I had heard of it but I’m always very hesitant to try new products because once I find a product I love I usually stick with it. At this point though I was very curious because of all I’ve read online about Basic H and how versatile it is.

Basic H is a pretty amazing concentrate. It’s non-toxic, all-natural, and doubly concentrated. By using it to mix your cleaners it costs less than $.01 center to make a 16 oz. bottle of window cleaner, only $.03 to make a 16 oz. bottle of all-purpose cleaner, and only $.17 to make a 16 oz. bottle of degreaser. WOW! Talk about saving money on cleaning products! Normally each of those products would cost me $3.00+. Okay so it’s good for the environment and cost effective but does it work?

She also sent me these microfiber cloths to use along with the cleaners. I tend to like my sponges but again, what have I got to lose by trying them, right? {Geesh, I sound like such a skeptic!}

Here’s where the real test begins…

I started by mixing each of my bottles: window cleaner, all-purpose cleaner and degreaser. As I was mixing them I was thinking {just being real here} “there is no way this stuff will work, I’m barely using any of the concentrate!” But at that point I had nothing to lose and I was even more curious than before!

The first bottle I tested was the window cleaner along with the microfiber window cloth. If you have been following me from the beginning you know how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sprayway’s Glass Cleaner so I was curious to see if the Basic H glass cleaner would compare. And boy oh boy, I was pleasantly surprised!!! First I started with the windows in my kitchen because they always have water spots on them from the sink, then I went to the sliding door to clean off Malea’s sticky fingerprints, then the mirrors, the TV, and then anything else I could think of. I was looking for streaks {that’s a HUGE pet peeve of mine with glass cleaners}, there were NONE. I kept trying to find a sticky fingerprint or smudge it couldn’t tackle, there were NONE. Ahhh, I’m in love. I think I cleaned every glass surface in my entire house that afternoon. The best part is now I can clean as many glass surfaces, mirrors, etc. as often as I want because it’s only costing me $0.01 per bottle instead of $3.00+!!! And I don’t have to use tons of paper towels! I love that!

The next bottle I tested was the degreaser. I was thinking, “there’s no way this will be able to cut through grease, it’s mostly just water!” So I started in the toughest, most greasiest spot in the house, the stove top and the microwave right above it. I sprayed them down and then wiped it with the microfiber cleaning cloth and the grease came right off. No scrubbing was necessary, it wiped clean very easily. Again trying to find something it couldn’t tackle I walked around my house spraying it on things like duct tape residue on the washing machine {from when we moved}–it came right off, greasy spots on the walls from Malea’s dirty little hands–wiped clean easily, dirty doors–clean in seconds. Then I started thinking, “Dang! This stuff is good!” I have yet to find something it can’t degrease, so again I was wrong, and pleasantly surprised!

The last bottle I tried was the all-purpose cleaner. I wasn’t really sure what to use it for because I had already cleaned almost everything in my house with the other two bottles so I decided to start with the basics: the sinks and faucets. By now my skepticism was long gone so I was not at all surprised when the all-purpose cleaner made my sinks and faucets nice and shiny. My only complaint though is that I did not find it to be good on tough stains. I had a small stain on my bathroom sink from coloring my hair and it was not able to remove it. However a dab of bleach had it gone it seconds. This minor setback didn’t break my heart though so I kept looking for things to clean with it. Next I got a little creative and used it for dusting my dressers and the entertainment center, I found it to be great for dusting. Then I used it to mop my wood floors! I think using it for moping was my favorite use for it because it’s hard to find a good product that doesn’t leave any sort of residue on the floor. The all-purpose cleaner left my floors smelling good and sparkling like new.

Over all I’d say I love the Basic H concentrate. I was very pleasantly surprised at how well it cleaned pretty much everything in my house! I am so grateful I had the opportunity to try this product out and I will definitely be purchasing more once I run out of my bottle {might be awhile since you use so little for each mixture!}. Now that I have experience the cleaning power of Shaklee’s all natural cleaners I am also excited to try some of their other products. I’ve read a lot about Scour Off and I’d love to try that next!

What do you think? Have you ever tried Basic H or any other Shaklee products? For those of you that want to purchase other Shaklee products you can receive a FREE Shaklee Membership (a $19.95 value) and an additional 15% savings on all future products with the purchase of Shaklee Vitalizer. Contact Jennifer to receive a Blissfully Ever After blog special too!

August 31, 2011 by Anna 36 Comments