Cillit Bang - is it as good as it seems from the adverts?

[Homer2911]

Just asking like

[Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot]

Is anything? My daughter informs me that it's nowhere near as good as it's made out to be.

Si

[Andy Mckenzie]

No idea, but

pulls apart a bit of the 'science' in their ads.

[Jim S]

I thought it was pretty useless. Nothing like the advert!

[Heds]

It's a stupid name! Makes me think of a certain part of the female anatomy.

/Heds

[Mary Fisher]

OK, I give in,what is it?

Mary

[Richard Faulkner]

In message , Homer2911 writes

It's got rid of the grubbiness on my shower base which other cleaners, including bleach, couldnt.

Contrary to everyone else's thoughts, I think it's OK.

[Alan]

In message , Homer2911 wrote

I will not be buying a second bottle.

[Jeff]

Alan wrote :-

Nor me

but i s'pose if they make £1 clear profit on each bottle and a million people try it ..............

Regards Jeff

[graham]

In the advert they dip a copper coin into the solution to clean it.

However, on the bottle it apparently says not suitable for use with copper.

Graham

[Magician]

[mike ring]

Richard Faulkner wrote in news:QqM $C9wL+ [e-mail]:

Me too; not as good as it claims, but *far* better thaan any other alleged general purpose cleaner IMO

mike

[EricP]

No, it's rubbish, based on the adverts.

[RichardS]

amusingly, small captions have started appearing on the bottom of these demonstrations.

IIRC, the copper coin demo (which lasts all of 3 seconds on the screen) has the caption "15 minutes".

And another caption which I think is from this product says "stubborn deposits may require scrubbing".

Which is strange, cos the advert makes it all look so easy.....

[Steve Firth]

It's a weak solution of sulphamic acid and a detergent or two. That is, it's just the same as limescale remover.

Because if you use it often enough it corrodes the copper. It's also not a good idea to use it with marble tiles.

[Anna Kettle]

Thanks Mary. If you didn't ask I was going to have to

Anna

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[Mary Fisher]

But I haven't seen a reply ... :-(

I gather that it's a proprietary cleaner but from what Si said about his daughter's comment I expected it to be something for Young People. The two don't usually go together :-)

Mary

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

We have found it *excellent* at removing limescale..makes your fingers sting, though.

Also good for removing surface rust!

sPoniX

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

That's because copper coins aren't copper, afaik.

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

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