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Remove coffee, food, make-up and other stains, with minimal effort

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4 d. ago The Filter is one! 50 things we loved this year, from a sleep mask to the perfect pan

Twelve months, thousands of tests and a revolutionary potato masher – here are our readers’ and writers’ ultimate buys• Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Filter is turning one. Since we launched a year ago, we’ve run, hiked, camped and swum; we’ve drunk 455 cups of coffee; washed 34 loads of clothes; slept on mattresses for 2,240 hours, and much more, testing a total of 2,040 products – from coffee machines to gin – to bring you the most rigorous, informed and entertaining buying advice.We’ve even had a decent stab at identifying the preferred lipstick of a global icon. And we’ve helped you consume less – and look after your precious things, from your phone to your wooden kitchen utensils, to make them last longer. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago I’ve found the best heated clothes airer deals that are still live after the Amazon Prime Day sale

Find tried-and-tested heated clothes airers on offer

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8 d. ago Best heated clothes airer deals in the Amazon Prime Day sale

These are the tried and tested heated clothes airers that are discounted in the sale

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3 w. ago The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job | Tom Lamont

From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore orderWhen the entrance to a theatre in London’s West End was discovered to be smeared with blood and faeces one day in March, a distress call went out to the headquarters of Ben Giles, a 49-year-old veteran of the extreme clean, who is based in Cardigan in Wales. Decades earlier, as a young know-nothing, hired by police to clean vehicles, Giles laboured for hours to remove fingerprint dust from the interior of a stolen car – work that now, with the experience of innumerable litter-dashed, liquid-sodden, gunge-roped scenes, would take him about 30 minutes. Job by job, he figured out when to scrape or sand, soak or fog, preserve or dispose. Boilersuited and plastic booted, Giles learned how to eliminate most evidence of spillages, collisions, protests, haemorrhages, severings, explosions, fires and floods, becoming a self-taught stain savant, a wal...

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3 w. ago 'Genius' red wine stain removal hack costs 33p per use and 'works in minutes'

No need to worry if you drop a glass of wine on your carpet - this cheap easy cleaning hack uses common supermarket items and can help vanish even the worst spills

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4 w. ago Best heated clothes airer deals to expect ahead of Amazon Prime Day

These are the tried and tested heated clothes airers we’ll be looking out for in the sale

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4 w. ago 11 best clothes steamers for banishing creases, tested by a fashion expert

Steam through the ironing pile, with these handy appliances

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