Share the Love of a Clean Home With the Ones You Love

RACINE, Wis., Feb. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With Valentine's Day just around the corner, SC Johnson, A Family Company, wants to help you get your family to share the love of a clean home. According to the Scrubbing Bubbles® Dirty Work Index(1): 68 percent of women actually enjoy cleaning their homes! Nearly all women crank up the music while cleaning (90 percent) and another 27 percent even dance while getting the house together. Based on that data, make it fun and engage the whole family to do the daily chores and share the house-cleaning love.

"All families struggle with making sure our kids get where they need to go, have a good time doing it, and still get to the daily chores," said Kelly M. Semrau, Senior Vice President – Global Corporate Affairs, Communication and Sustainability at SC Johnson. "Keeping the home clean takes a family commitment and sharing the workload gets everyone to their fun time faster. It's also a great way for family members to spend time together in our hectic lives."

Love for the Ages

When making cleaning a family activity choose age-appropriate chores for the kids. Little ones can organize their toys into Ziploc® Brand Flexible Totes – with adult supervision – before you vacuum or put leftovers away into Ziploc® Brand containers after dinner. Older kids can then tackle the dusting with the help of the Pledge® family of products, and take out the garbage. When all is done, relax and family game or movie night in your freshly cleaned home.  

Home is Where the Heart Is

Look at your calendar each week and schedule time when the whole family will be home to clean. If everyone works together, a lot can be done in a short period of time, and it can actually be fun. Crank up some music, set a timer for one hour and make it a competition to see who can get the most done.  

You Can Hurry Love

Try these tips and tricks to speed up your cleaning process so you can spend more time doing the things you really love with the people you love most:

• Keep quick cleaning tools like Scrubbing Bubbles® Antibacterial Bathroom Wipes handy to keep germs at bay with a quick sweep before you walk out of the bathroom
• Spend 15 minutes a day tidying up to ensure free time on the weekend
• Add touches that keep the home smelling fresh, like Glade® room sprays in fresh spring fragrances such as the new Bring on the Blossoms™
• Use products that work harder for you. Try Pledge® to clean, shine and protect surfaces all around your home while also removing up to 90 percent of pet dander allergens found in dust

About SC Johnson

SC Johnson is a family-owned and managed business dedicated to innovative, high-quality products, excellence in the workplace and a long-term commitment to the environment and the communities in which it operates. Based in the USA, the company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of household cleaning products and products for home storage, air care, and insect control. It markets such well-known brands as GLADE®, OFF!®, PLEDGE®, RAID®, SCRUBBING BUBBLES®, SHOUT®, WINDEX® and ZIPLOC® in the U.S. and beyond, with brands marketed outside the U.S. including AUTAN®, BAYGON®, BRISE®, KABIKILLER®, KLEAR®, and MR. MUSCLE®. The 125-year-old company, with more than $8 billion in sales, employs approximately 12,000 people globally and sells products in virtually every country around the world. www.scjohnson.com

(1) The Scrubbing Bubbles® Dirty Work Index Comprehensive Report was a telephone survey conducted by StrategyOne between August 5-11, 2010. The sample consisted of 1500 women ages 18-64. The national results of this study have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 at the 95 percent level of confidence.

SOURCE SC Johnson