Supermarket brands of cleaners don’t work as well

I was cleaning my bathroom yesterday under the watchful eyes of my mother who was visiting. She was chatting to me as I scrubbed the bathroom floor and sink with my regular cleaner – Cif formerly known as Jif. She nodded approvingly at my choice of bathroom cleaner, and warned me not to go with the generic supermarket own brand ones, no matter how similar they looked.

She said that the supermarket ones, though a lot cheaper and looked the same, did not have the cleaning properties of the original branded cleaners. She found herself using more of it, and in the process, it no longer worked out to be as cheap, because you end up buying cleaners more often. I noted what she said, for I knew that nothing would escape the dirt radar detectors of my mom. If she said it was crap, I’d better listen to her!

I do find that to a degree, what she says is the truth, for from experience, some supermarket own brand items are just not up to par with the originals. I guess some corners had to be cut to reduce the price to an attractive enough level that people would buy them. I find this most glaring in household cleaners. The generic or supermarket brands just don’t clean as well, or at all!

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