Simple Green All-Purpose Cleaner Reviews

This brings back memories.  My dad was a car freak, so when I got my first car, he made me wash it all the time.  Even worse, he liked to tell me what I was doing wrong, or which spots I missed.  Simple Green was one of the products that we used.  It works perfect for getting those white letters on sports car tires to shine like new.  We also used it to scrub the floor mats down to bring them back to the original color. 

It really is a great product and it will clean anything with the right amount of scrubbing and obsessive compulsive supervision!

Yes, Simple Green has been around for quite some time and it's quite effective. I now question whether this it's really as eco-friendly as it claims to be. One wiff of the stuff makes me suspicious, and with no ingredients listed even more so. Still, being concentrated helps to cut down on the packaging and it cleans nicely.

a great cleaner i use it from in the house to cleaning my moped

I prefer vinager, water and a 'clean ' dishsoap mix for almost everything.

A viable alternative to the usual, with the option of diluting. It did seem to take a little extra to disolve some hidden pet messes that were left for "mommy" to find after a few weeks, but I was happy to use it faithfully until...(see another review in this category!)

Simple green is an easy to use household cleaner without the smell of bleach or ammonia.  I use it every week in my kitchen and whereever my kids leave their fingerprints in the house.  It will usually pick up anything but stains that have gotten into the finish/paint.  For that, I use baking soda or pumice stone.  Overall, simple green is an effective cleaner the will remove all but the toughest stains and is great in the kitchen or bathroom.

I have used Simple Green for years. I agree with some of the other users that it has a rather strong scent, but the product is meant to be diluted. You can buy it in "ready-to-use" form and the scent is quite tolerable. I use it for everything and anything. Counter tops, oven, fridge....even the vehicles.

I've been using Simple Green for years and was introduced to it at a shop I used to work at. The product has amazing cleaning power but it does smell extremely strong until you get used to it. We use it to clean the kitchen and bathrooms around the house and have never been disappointed. After reading some of the reviews on the site, I will say I would like to try a greener product.

Sure, it's concentrated and it cleans well. It's greener than most mainstream cleaners, and less toxic. And if that's all that matters to you, go for it.

But, it's made with 2-butoxyethanol (though the manufacturer states that the finished product isn't effected by the usual adverse characteristics of products made with 2-butoxyethanol). What it comes down to is that Simple Green's environmental footprint is pretty big, and if you're going to spend the money to buy something green, you might as well go with a product that's healthier.

I bought this from Home Depot years ago in my first attempt at finding a greener cleaner. I didn't know what I was doing and I took the label at face value. I tolerated the scent but my wife couldn't. It is an extremely intense and chemical scent.

I stopped using it when I found a certain natural, organic, castille soap that I won't mention by name.

A friend encouraged me to use Simple Green to get rid of a recent ant invasion -- plain water and vinegar wasn't working. I was surprised to read on the bottle that it is biodegradable and the formula is pretty green, so happily bought some. Short of training my cat to eat the ants (he eats spiders and flies!), Simple Green has been the most effective way to wipe out the ants' chemical trails and keep them out of my kitchen.

Just don't use it on glass or mirrors.

I have used this product for years and it does do a good job. It is strong smelling but i have gotten used to it. I am looking at other cleaners on the market now to see if there is something that works that is less concentrated.

SimpleGreen is as strong as any other toxic cleaner I've ever used and stronger than any of the "Green" cleaners, but recently there have been some questions about how "Green" it actually is. The biggest concern is that it contains 2-butoxyethanol, a substance that studies have shown can cause reproductive problems in animals. On the contrary, 2-butoxyethanol is said to decompose within a few days once in the environment, and it is not known to build up in organic hosts. So I guess the jury is still out, my conclusion... It cleans well but I cannot verify how eco-friendly it is.

My mother's been buying concentrated gallon jugs of this stuff at Costco since the 90's. It's pretty strong if you don't over-dilute it.

 I've had simple green since the early 1990's. Its nice to see that they have lasted and that 'green' isnt all that new. It works great, no complaints.

I've been using Simple Green for many years - first introduced to it when I was involved with youth sports to get unifroms and equipment clean.  Took some home to try it around the house and was amazed, been using it everywhere, ever since.  They have a lot of other products now too, but my favorite is till the original green stuff.  They have a website - www.simplegreen.com where you can see all of their new stuff.  I buy the 1 gallon jug and put it in spray bottles with water.  A gallon lasts a long time!

Bought this in a gallon bottle of concentrate and mix myself gives a great price lasts about a year for me

I first ran into SimpleGreen products in the Army as they were ordered due to their low cost.  Later I tried them in my own homes... never have I been impressed with Simple Green.

It will clean, but vinegar spray works better in my experience.  It's only a notch or two up from just using water, honestly.

It's smell is not horrible but still a bit unpleasant... and leaves a cloying tone in the air around where it was used for a while.

The cost is low, but I found it very much a case of "getting what you paid for".  -And as said, there are other cheaper and better-cleaning options available just in your cooking supplies.

If you're in a crunch and need a large amount of cheap cleanser, as we did in the Army, then this stuff would be a fair pick.  But if you want it for normal daily tidying at home, I'd suggest saving money by mixing your own cleaner up or splurge a little on something that gives you more than your money's worth.