Pledge Natural Beauty By SC Johnson

Product Name: Pledge - Natural Beauty

Where To Buy: Almost any store

Package Contents: 1 12.5 oz aerosol can

Manufactures Description: Pledge® Natural Beauty is ideal for quickly cleaning your wood furniture and wood surfaces. Its Anti-Dust™ formula keeps surfaces looking less dusty, longer. It removes dust, dirt, smudges, and common allergens like pet dander found in dust from your wood furniture in a flash. Plus, it protects against water damage and stains. Dusting with Pledge® leaves surfaces with no waxy buildup.

Dinker & Stinker Review: It is like the smell of your son’s first hand-picked flowers- you’ll never forget it. The lemon scent of Pledge. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a dusting product in our house. For a while I’ve been just using one of our cloth diapers (prefold diaper) that had a few holes in it. So when the sample Pledge came in the mail I wasn’t really that excited about testing out something that I didn’t need.

I opened the box and set it down in the living room and continued on making lunch for the boys- their favorite, peanut butter and blueberry jam. Then the air filled with a familiar but forgotten scent- lemon. For a few moments I put the smell out of my mind and continued on. What was I smelling? Well, it was nice but what was it. I slowly realized that my middle son was covering our couch with Pledge- Ooops!
So I have to say- I love the smell. It’s lemon, it’s fresh…it’s the smell of clean!

After lunch it was time to put the Pledge to real work on wood not fabric. Using my faithful cloth prefold diaper I sprayed some Pledge and began my dusting routine. The first thing I noticed was that the wood looked cleaner, nicer, shinier. It’s not a nasty oil shine but just a simple- “I’m clean” shine. There is a difference and it is noticeable. With Pledge’s trademark Anti-Dust formula the pieces in my house have actually stayed looking nice for over a week now. It really does seem to actually ‘trap’ the dust and whatever makes up the dust in my house a lot better than just dry dusting. There isn’t a cloud around my diaper cloth anymore it picks up everything in just one pass.

So if you are still dry dusting or even using the Swiffer dusting products try spritzing your cloth or Swiffer with the Pledge Natural Beauty and trust me you WILL see a difference and you can’t beat that fresh lemon scent. I should also mention that our couch even though given a health coating of the Pledge did not have any noticeable damage both in look and touch once it was wiped down with a towel and given time to dry. So even though I started out thinking I don’t need this- I found that I really do and it’s made part of my cleaning routine faster, easier, and fresher!

Rating 1-10: I am giving this two ratings- the product it self is getting a 9.5, the packaging that the product came in is getting a 0 - yes that is a zero. I received one Pledge can to test and it came in a box that could have fit about 7 cans and it was packed FULL of packing peanuts. There are much better ways to ship that are eco-friendly. I understand that many of the SC Johnson factories are doing what they can to power their plants in a eco-friendly fashion, however it was a huge was in shipping.

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SC Johnson is giving one of my lucky readers a can of Pledge Natural Beauty just because they love ya! So leave a comment here filling in your Name, Email Address (does not show to the general public and we will not spam you!), your website address if you have one, and a brief description of your favorite thing to do that involves cleaning.
I love to turn the music up and just bop my way through a room. Not only does it make picking up a room fun but that extra movin’ and groovin’ burns some extra calories.

Don’t forget to visit Pledge.com and watch for money saving coupons.

This post was written for Family Review Network as part of a program by SC Johnson, who also supplied the product for review and giveaway

Have A Safe And Happy New Year!

Dressy Dribbles: Car Seat Covers With Style

Product Name: Dressy Dribbles Infant Car Seat Cover
Where To Buy: Dressy Dribbles
Package Contents: 1 infant car seat cover in Lucky, 1 infant car seat canopy in Lucky, directions for use

Manufacturers Description: “For your infant, it’s snuggly soft and comfortable. For you, it’s the most stylish and practical car seat cover you’ll find. Made from quality minky, denim, cotton and satin fabrics, this is the only car seat cover that snaps on and off. So you don’t have to rethread the straps every time you want to clean it. Now you can easily remove it, toss it in the washing machine, and in a snap it’s like brand new again. And since two looks are better than one, this beautiful car seat cover is also reversible. Includes matching reversible canopy cover. Matching blankets available. Fits most standard infant car seats.”

Dinker & Stinker Review: Minky…oh beautiful soft snugly minky! That is exactly what I thought when I reached my hand into the box and pulled the cover out. So soft and snugly. Exactly what my sons’ seat needed these cold, bitter days of December. Now I’m not one for directions so I have so say as soon as I got the cover I was ready with the car seat and even started taking the original cover off the seat. Do not do this! Mommy Alaina couldn’t figure out how I’d take the cover off and then put the Lucky Dressy Dribbles cover on so I nixed that idea and decided to follow the directions. Note to self: Do not act like hubby- follow the directions!

The Dressy Dribbles cover is intended as a COVER to cover the existing seat as a whole. With it’s unique slits that snap you can easily place the DD cover over your seat and put the belts through the slits then snap them shut. As I was doing this one of the snaps on the lowest part (down where the bum of my son would be) did come off. I had to pull one part of the snap off completely as there were some sharp edges as not to harm the baby. This snap missing has NOT affected the DD cover at all. Honestly, you’d never know it was gone.

I did contact Dressy Dribbles and let them know and I have to say even their customer service is outstanding. They offered an immediate resolution for the snap that was above and beyond what I’d expect. I did turn them down as I really can’t tell that the snap is missing. Rest assure that this is a product backed by the company and it’s creator!

The DD cover that I was testing was for the infant seat so mine came with a matching reversible canopy. The canopy still does not sit like the original canopy. Our car seat has two of the plastic things that hold the canopy up and the DD canopy only had one slot. I find that it often will droop and touch the baby’s head when I pull the canopy down too far in order to cover more of his body.

I have washed the cover and the canopy. I did so on the delicate cycle and with cold water and VERY little detergent. It took a while to dry but it was very humid out that day as it was raining and our house was humid as well.

Rating 1-10: 8 - All and all I really love this cover and enjoy the comments from strangers about not just how cute the baby is but how pretty the seat is as well. I didn’t give it a 10 as I’ve always been warned about ‘after market’ products on car seats and I did not see any crash test ratings on their site. I do not see how it would be an issue but one will be cautious.

Have A Safe And Merry Christmas

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