Several of my consulting jobs have revolved around the volatile subject of housekeeping. I'm combining several discussions about cleaning and housekeeping for this article.

The biggest irony, to me, in the way American's tackle cleaning is that the powerful cleaning products they use often don't kill the “germs” they are going after. In the quest to make the B&B or home clean we load the cleaning closet or cart with numerous products that often are harmful to the people using them, the environment and the people who use the rooms later, and also kill useful bacteria. We have killed so many bacteria around us we are making ourselves sick, or at least more prone to health issues and diseases.