Full Cleaning Guide + Free Printable & Tracker | Philosophical Life

Bounjour, my friends!

Have you wondered how often you need to clean things and to replace them to stay clean? Well, behold a big Cleaning Guide where you'll find most everyday things you deal with like towels, bedding, tooth brushes, makeup brushes, dust and more. This post is a final post for these 30 Days of Philosophical Life "Clean Life" series where I combined everything we've talked about throughout this "month". You can join our journey on getting your life together one step at a time starting with first Philosophical Life post. 

As I mentioned before, for this Cleaning Guide I put together all the aspects I've already written about and added some Trackers and Tips for you. There will be a link at the end of this post so you can download all the goodies. You guys know, that I don't like overwhelming posts with a lot of text because you get lost in it and can't concentrate on important things so instead of writing a shit tone of things I'll will just mention some bullet points and leave links for specific posts where I thoroughly explain everything about each element of the table overhead. 

I've developed three types of cleaning: Light, Medium and Deep. It helps to stay as clean as possible without spending too much time on doing useless things. This is quite easy to understand but I feel like saying a few things. First of, deep clean does not always mean actually cleaning, like for Beauty Blender, Konjac Sponge and Tooth Brush - it actually means replacing them with new ones. Secondly,  light clean is not always a must like with makeup brushes - I understand that you not always have time for that. However, medium is definitely obligatory as well as light clean for everything else (except makeup brushes).  

Don't worry if you are a little bit confused by all of these because Trackers that I included in a doc linked at the end of the post will help understand everything and develop your own system. You can also check out how I use these Trackers in real life (like in this pic ☟) in my Plan w/ Me series where I show you my planner/bullet journal: April, May, June,  July.  

Now as promised you can check out any of the themes you want to and see what, how and when needs to be cleaned or washed, or replaced.

Clean Life Articles:

• Bedding, PJs, Pillows etc
• All kinds of Towels (face, hand, kitchen etc)
• Reflective Surfaces (mirrors, windows, screens etc) and Windowsill 
• Carpets, Floors & Dust
• Makeup Brushes, Sponges & Tooth Brush

Download Free full Table with Tips + Tracker for July & August + Blank Monthly Trackers
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Until next time, babes

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Keep it clean

Stay true

XoXo

Ivana

How Often to Clean: Makeup Brushes, Konjac Sponge... | Philosophical Life

Bonjour, my friends!

I'm back yet again with another Clean Life post which is a part of our Philosophical Life program where we try and get our lives together one piece at a time. So we've talked about a lot of things this month and this is actually going to be last but one post for these 30 days but do not worry it's not going anywhere, we'll always have things to talk about. Actually, what do you guys want me to talk about? What things you don't not when and how to clean? Let me know in the comments or write me a short email. 

Let's get talking. For this post I chose a very popular theme - Beauty. I think that nowadays most of us use some kind of makeup on our faces and while we learned to choose better quality products we often forget that the tools we're using also need our attention. First of all those are makeup brushes, now there are a lot controversial posts about how often you to clean them so let's get out the way once and for all. Ideally you need to clean them after every use or better say just everyday and for you can use special wipes (as mentioned on the picture above), then you need to deep clean them every week meaning you use a little bit of hair shampoo or micellar water and for the real good clean once a month when you use a special soup and a rubber brush cleaning matt (you buy it at any makeup store). As for beauty blenders and other sponges, I do strongly recommend washing them everyday because these babies can grow a lot of bacteria inside of them and once every 3 months you new replace them and buy a new one. Same goes for konjac sponges (those are soft sponges for your face that you use with your normal soup, helps me a lot with dead skin and good cleanse)  and tooth brushes aka replacing them one every 3 months. Moreover, brushes need to be cleaned with soup and hot water every week.
Now, I'll leave a little description down below so you can see it all more clearly

Makeup Brushes:

• Light clean - swiping brushes on makeup removing wipe
• Medium - cleaning them with micellar water or shampoo
• Deep - using some special soup and rubber matt 

Beauty Blender:

• Light - cleaning it with special soup or micellar water
• Deep - just replacing it with a new one

Konjac Sponge:

• Deep - just replace it

Tooth Brush:

• Light - wash it under hot water with soup 
• Deep - replace it

You can check other Clean Life Articles:

• Bedding, PJs, Pillows etc
• All kinds of Towels (face, hand, kitchen etc)
• Reflective Surfaces (mirrors, windows, screens etc) and Windowsill 
• Carpets, Floors & Dust
• Full Cleaning Guide with Free Downloadable Trackers, Tips and more

Until next time, babes

Don't forget to use  #30daysofphilosophicallife if you want to

Keep it clean

Stay true

XoXo

Ivana

How Often to Clean: Bedding, Pyjamas and Pillows | Philosophical Life

Bonjour, my friends!

Welcome to yet another episode of Clean Life which is a part of Philosophical Life series where we get our life together. Today we'll be taking a look at all things bedroom so scroll down.

As I said, we're talking about very important things today that secure our sleep. It's not a secret that a good clean environment helps to feel a little bit more at ease so to say and I think our sleeping environment isn't the least important. That's why you should know how to properly look after it. On our usual pic above you can see a table and some tips. There's not much to say today about it all but I just wanna mention a few things. First of it being your bedding which you normally should wash once in a week but it actually makes more sense if you do it the day you wash your whole body and hair and that's why it can sometimes take more time with this in mind you can extend your washing sessions to 10 days pretty safely and sometimes even 2 weeks just remember to iron your pillow case once in 3-4 days to prevent any bacteria from developing to much. The same goes for your pyjamas because you wanna put clean clothes on a freshly cleaned body. Most importantly, don't forget to wash your actual pillows and blankets especially if you're allergic because they can cultivate a lot of nasty things inside over the time as well as your actual bed, mattress or couch.


Keep it clean
Until next time, babes

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Keep it clean

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XoXo

Ivana

How Often to Clean: Towels | Philosophical Life

Bonjour, my friends!

The third part of Clean Life series is finally here. If you don't know what I'm talking about then check out this  Philosophical Life post where I explain everything about it. I do record you joining our 30 Days to Better You program if you want to get your life together one piece at time. Now, let's talk about cleaning.

There you have a usual pic with a table and some tips included. Let me now if you want a pdf version of it and I'll add it. As you can see this time we have towels as centre of our attention. There's basically only one to wash them aka in the washing machine at 60C temperature setting so I'll talk a little bit about why we need to clean them this often.

Kitchen Towels:

• Yes, we need to change our kitchen towels nearly everyday because they pick up so much bacteria, even tho they seem clean. Kitchen is an area full different food and other products that we use and then wipe our hands and dishes with dem towels. Take your time and wash your kitchen towels at least once every 3 days.

Hand&Face Towels:

• Yeah, you should have separate towels for hands and face because of sanitary reasons. You don't want to mess with your face, right? Even tho you use towels on your clean hands and faces you still leave some bacteria there and transferring it from one place to another with towel ain't good. This also goes without saying with not sharing your face towel with anyone else whether hand towels can actually be shared.

Bathroom Towels:

• For this section goes the same rule as for hand and face towels. You generally need to wash them every 3-4 uses to keep them relatively clean. Having separate body and hair towels can seem a little bit extra but it's actually a good thing if you wash just your body more often than your hair, it helps you save some water.

Until next time, babes

Don't forget to use  #30daysofphilosophicallife if you want to

Keep it clean

Stay true

XoXo

Ivana

How Often to Clean: reflective surfaces, windows & windowsill | Philosophical Life

Bonjour, my friends!
Welcome to a second part of Clean Life series. Today we're going to quickly talk about how often you should clean mirrors, windows and any reflective surfaces as well as windowsill. I know that it's not the most interesting theme out there but we still should at least touch upon it.

As you can see, I included a pic with a table and some tips as per usual. Again, let me know if want a pdf version of it. I think that there's not much to talk about today. I'm pretty sure you know how to clean mirrors and others reflective surfaces. So I'm going to say some more things only about windows and windowsill.

Windows:

• Light - just clean windows from the inside (aka your room) with some cleaning supplies 
• Deep - cleaning both sides of windows with cleaning supplies and water (just like car windows if know what I mean). I usually do this in the middle of spring & autumn

Windowsill:

• Light - again some fiber cloth and cleaning supplies of your choice
• Deep - add water and soup to it for deep cleanse (don't forget about side panels)

Viola, one more part is sorted and cleaned!

See you in the next post 

Live clean

Stay true

XoXo

Ivana