'Cleanfluencer' ANNA LOUISA on how to make your microwave sparkle in three minutes, the 奇蹟 home 成分 that cleans the toughest stains - and the filthiest place you don't even know about...
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For sale: a three-bedroom flat in South London. Features 含む a one-year-old’s Weetabix 塀で囲む art, a five-year-old’s splodges on the carpet, created with Mummy’s eyeshadow, and an oven that hasn’t been cleaned since 2019, thanks to two 疲れた／うんざりした working parents.
I realise my new-to-the-market home doesn’t come with the most 説得力のある pitch. While it’s not dirty, it’s certainly not show-home spotless. With two young children and a 十分な-time 職業, I have an hour or so ‘解放する／自由な time’ each evening in between the kids 落ちるing asleep and flopping into bed myself, during which my husband and I whizz around like mad people doing laundry, filling lunchboxes and 行為／行うing a surface-level wipe. It’s enough to make our home look presentable, but ignores the 深い-clean 職業s such as 取り組むing the fridge and the にわか雨 grouting.
I am too time (and energy) poor to do much more, but could a spring-きれいにする 開会／開廷／会期 with Anna Louisa, a ‘cleanfluencer’ with over 4.2 million Instagram 信奉者s, change all that? Anna’s USP is 速度(を上げる） ? her tips are designed to be 急速な／放蕩な and 効果的な, hence the 肩書を与える of her recently publis hed 調書をとる／予約する: The 5 Minute Clean 決まりきった仕事.
Anna Louisa’s きれいにする 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセスs have gone viral on Instagram
When the day of Anna’s visit arrives, I feel nervous. Will she think I’m a slovenly mother, raising my children in a pigsty? I scoot around with the vacuum cleaner before she’s 予定, keen not to 手段 up 貧しく against her high 基準s. All my 恐れるs disappear, however, when I answer the door and Anna, 35, すぐに tells me my flat looks beautiful. It’s （疑いを）晴らす she understands the 圧力 to 現在の a picture-perfect home when having people over, 同様に as my predicament in trying to fit きれいにする around work and kids.
Anna was a 最初の／主要な-school teacher when she started growing her social-マスコミ に引き続いて, 最初 地位，任命するing 内部のs content. But when she had her son Oliver, now three, ‘it was harder to run around Dunelm doing shopping 地位，任命するs’, says Anna, who pivoted に向かって きれいにする content she could film at home. She started 株ing 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセスs (such as quick ways to change the duvet cover and clean the にわか雨 審査する), and saw a 抱擁する 返答 from her 信奉者s.
When she reached 200,000 信奉者s, Anna 地位，任命するd a ビデオ that perfectly typifies her content ? the 12-second clip sees her ぱらぱら雨ing a mattress with bicarb and 必須の oils, using a cloth tied to a pan lid to scrub the stairs and 追加するing soda 水晶s to towels before washing them. It went viral, 伸び（る）ing her an extra three million 信奉者s.
Sna ppy きれいにする tips might be her forte, but Anna spends a lot of time 研究ing and 実験（する）ing her 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセスs, based on 信奉者 requests (she says she spends four hours a week きれいにする her own house, which looks immaculate in ビデオs). 実験（する）ing is necessary because when Anna 地位，任命するs a tip, she wants to know it 作品, and that’s led to some ingenious 解答s, as I 証言，証人／目撃する in my own home.
First up, there’s the microwave. Before Anna arrived, I placed my phone, 直面するing 上向きs, inside and took a photo to send her, then nearly had a heart attack when I saw the 層 of grime 粘着するing to its ‘天井’. Have I 本気で been putting my kids’ food in that? ‘I’ve seen worse,’ says Anna, and 始める，決めるs to work, slicing a lemon and putting the pieces in a bowl of water, before squeezing them to 解放（する） the juice. She pops this in the microwave for three minutes on 十分な 力／強力にする, telling me that the steam 連合させるd with the citric 酸性の inside will 削減（する） through the grease. This is then left to stand for five minutes and voil? ? wiping the muck off the microwave’s innards becomes 平易な.
Next is the oven. How often do you clean yours? There’s a funny Mumsnet thread where people 自白する it’s ‘once every year or two’ or ‘only when it stinks’, and admittedly I’m the same. A major part of the 問題／発行する is I don’t 現実に know how to clean an oven, but Anna whips up a paste using bicarbonate of soda and washing-up liquid, which she smears on to the surfaces and leaves for half an hour. Again, this makes it much easier to scrub off all the grease from the oven 塀で囲むs. Anna also uses a 道具 that looks like a tiny ice scraper to 取り組む stubborn grit, telling me, ‘This was really cheap on アマゾン, it’s useful for induction hobs, too.’
Indeed, a lesson I learn 繰り返して during Anna’s three-hour きれいにする 開会／開廷／会期 is that you don’t need to spend a fortune on expensive branded lotions and potions to clean. Instead, stick to simple 製品s along with a few clever 道具s, such as the electric scrubber she uses to polish limescale off my にわか雨 grouting. My children both have eczema, so Anna 選ぶs for natural 製品s, 含むing a simple paste made from water and bicar bonate of soda to 除去する 示すs from the sofa (I could’ve sworn I banned the family from eating and drinking on it. Sigh). As for her number-one きれいにする 製品? ‘You can clean almost anything in your house with washing-up liquid,’ she says. ‘You do not need to spend a lot of money.’
I’m keen to know if there is any part of the house you 簡単に must clean every day. ‘The worst place for bacteria is the kitchen 沈む,’ says Anna. Most of us 定期的に wipe this 負かす／撃墜する with a cloth, but the 決定的な step is then 殺菌するing the cloth every night, rather than wiping the same dirty rag around the bowl for days. ‘Run a shallow 層 of water at the 底（に届く） of the 沈む, put your 消毒薬 in there and then 追加する the cloth,’ advises Anna. Cloths should then be washed 定期的に at 60 degrees, so save them up to go with other items such as towels and bedding that need to be washed at a 最高気温.
Anna is 十分な of brilliant tips ? she tells me to put a white plastic high 議長，司会を務める outside in the sun to bleach off orange stains, throw ice cubes into a hot nonstick pan to 解除する off the grease, and take my make-up sponge into the にわか雨 with me to clean it without making a mess. I am やめる 率直に amazed when she squirts a blob of Gillette shaving 泡，激怒すること on to the eyeshadow stains on my bedroom carpet, only to wipe it off after a couple of minutes to 明らかにする／漏らす they’ve 完全に disappeared (those 示すs have been there for at least six months).
When she 地位，任命するs about visiting my flat a couple of days later, Anna says that she ‘almost cried 記録，記録的な／記録するing this voiceover’ because it ‘攻撃する，衝突する home... how motherhood can be a lot to juggle いつかs’. I certainly needn’t have worried about 存在 裁判官d.
Anna やめる her 職業 in 2023 to become a 十分な-time influencer ? she now makes the 大多数 of her money through brand 共同s with the likes of 空気／公表する Wick and B& M. However, in some ways she feels as if she hasn’t fully left her former career in education. ‘I’m still a teacher, just in a new classroom,’ she explains. That new classroom is Instagram, where a whole host of time-poor individuals are gratefully lapping up her lessons, one squirt of washing-up liquid at a time.
The 5 Minute Clean 決まりきった仕事 by Anna Louisa is published by Century, £18.99. To order a copy for £16.14 until 15 June, go to mailshop.co.uk/調書をとる／予約するs or call 020 3176 2937. 解放する／自由な UK P&P on orders over £25.?
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