The pros at the Good Housekeeping Institute’s Cleaning Lab understand the importance — and challenges — of finding the right cleaning products to tackle household chores. For decades, we have provided advice and product testing recommendations to help you select the cleaning formulas and appliances that work best, are easiest to use and save you time and effort. We’re thrilled to present our third annual Best Cleaning Product Awards to showcase the top-performing, most innovative products that make quick work of caring for your home.
Meet the Experts
How We Tested
To select these 57 top-performers for our 2021 Good Housekeeping Cleaning Awards, our GH Cleaning Lab and GH Institute pros as well as almost 70 consumer testers washed, scrubbed, vacuumed and polished their way through sprays, wipes, appliances and more, assessing 10,659 data points to find these winning products. When testing 150 cleaning product submissions, we used industry and in-house developed protocols to evaluate how well, for example, laundry detergents remove stains, how thoroughly washing machines launder clothing and how well multi-purpose cleaners cut grease.
We tested floor cleaners and tools on wood, tile, laminate, and vinyl floors, and assessed how much dirt and pet hair stick and robot vacuum cleaners removed from carpeting and bare floors. We evaluated germ-killing disinfectants, as well as dish soaps, bathroom cleaners, odor eliminators, outdoor cleaning products and more. Our consumer testers provided invaluable feedback about what worked and what didn’t, how easy they found the products to use, how the test products compared to their usual brands and whether they would buy them.
