I just discovered Murphy''s Oil Soap about a month ago. I was looking for a good wood cleaner that has been tried and trusted, so I decided to give Murphy''s a try. I had a new, wood table that I built and after cleaning it with Murphy''s Oil Soap, I was very happy with the results!
Of all things, my little kitten helped me discover other uses for Murphy''s. While working through some litter box training issues, my kitten had accidently made a boo-boo on my leather dinning room chair. Murphy''s Oil Soap was the only cleaner I had available. I diluted some of Murphy''s Oil Soap in a spray bottle filled with water. I sprayed the diluted Murphy''s Oil Soap right on the leather chair, and using paper towels, cleaned it up. I reapplied it again spraying all over the chair and wiped it clean with paper towels again. WOW! to my surprise, it cleaned my leather chair perfectly! You would never in a million years guess that anything ever soiled my chair. It cleaned up all the mess and the odor was gone!
So, I thought, hum.. If Murphy''s can clean that, how will it do on my counters, stove top, refrigerator door, sinks, and such..That very same day I used it to clean my whole house and it worked like magic! Cleaned, everything, cut grease, and left a fresh, clean sent. So now, I no longer buy any other cleaner. I only use Murphy''s Oil Soap, diluted in a spray bottle for all my household cleaning!
I''ve also used Murphy''s Oil Soap diluted in a spray bottle to soak pots and pans with stuck-on, baked on food. I only had to soak it a few moments and it lifted it right off. I keep a small spray bottle next to the sink and I use it to clean the dishes off before I put them in the dish washer.
It works great for cleaning recyclable glass and plastics. I fill the bottle or jar with hot water, spray some Murphy''s inside and shake. It cleans it perfectly.
The only time I would use Murphy''s Oil Soap straight from the bottle is if I had a stain on my clothes. Put a drop, full strength on the clothes stain, rub it in and then put it through the washing machine. Other than that, always dilute it with water! Always test on the bottom edge of your fabric before you do that though.
Oh, one other really cool thing I discovered. Murphy''s Oil Soap contains citronella oil for the fragrance. Well, citronella oil is a natural bug repellent and repels ants, mosquitoes, fleas, ticks. So in my opinion only, if you use Murphy''s Oil Soap around your house, those critters just may think twice before coming inside! ;)
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Pro''s
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-> A very safe product to use. Gentle on surfaces. Gentile on your skin.
-> No harsh chemicals like bleach or ammonia. You can breath easy.
-> Cleans surface dirt, wax buildup, cuts grease.
-> No residue. Cleans without leaving a film behind.
-> Cleans wood well and any other surface in your home!
-> Smells clean and fresh
-> Highly concentrated, so one bottle will last a long while. Economical
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Cons
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None that I can think of at the moment. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and more!
The only surface It''s not good for is glass because it''s a soap based product. Use vinegar for glass.
This is not really a "con", but you must make sure you dilute it to the proper ratio of cleaner to water. If you are even slightly leaning toward too much cleaner to water, it could produce a solution that might be too oily or leave behind a film. So, if you''ve tried this product in the past and you felt it was too oily for some surfaces, try mixing it again with less cleaner to your water mixture. With test and trial you''ll come up with the perfect ratio for all the surfaces you need to clean and it will clean great without leaving behind anything.
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Conclusion
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Murphy''s Oil Soap was made especially for sealed wood but is a fantastic, natural, hardworking, safe cleaner that you can use around your house to clean any surface except glass.
I highly recommend this product. Try it and I think you will also agree!
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We have been using this product on our wood floors (in our current home) for over 35 years now. We use no other wood floor cleaner. We have been using Murphy Oil Soap in our homes for almost 50 years now and it was pretty much a standard in the homes of our parents.
Please keep in mind that this product IS NOT a floor wax, It is a natural oil cleaner. We have found that with its continual use that our floors maintain their original hand finished luster. The wood does not dry out nor is any of the finish on the floors ever removed, which by the way, many like products will do from time to time, depending upon the material used and the finish.
There are a couple of things to note about this product. First...never every too much of the stuff, a wee bit of this product goes a long, long way. If you do not follow the directions on the bottle and follow it precisely, i.e. adding too much cleaner to the water, then you could quite well have a mess on your hands in the form of a very oily and somewhat sticky residue. The old thought that "if a little works, then a lot should work even better," does not apply here so take warning! Second, if you have wooden cabinets, in particularly wooden cabinets with some of the newer finishes on them, you might want to test a small out of the way area first. If you use too much of this stuff, i.e. poor it on straight out of the bottle like a neighbor of ours did, then you risk ruining the finish of your wood work. This is really not the fault of the product; no, it is the fault of the user not following directions.
It should also be noted that this product SHOULD NOT be used on an unstained or unwaxed or unfinished wood surface. It is after all, water based and will make a mess of untreated or improperly treated wood.
It should also be noted that this is a pretty environmentally safe product; one that actually works.
Anyway, this product has kept our floors quite nice over the years and protected them from packs of undisciplined dogs, cats, children and grandchildren (my wife includes me in this rogues gallery). Actually, with the exception of a few accidental gouges here and there (my fault...I admit it), our floors look much the way the did in our current home as the day we had them installed; a bit mellower, that is true, but to be honest that is the look we had intended from the beginning.
This product is quite cost effective as a bottle, even in the size of home we have, goes a long, long way.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
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Murphy Oil liquid soap is the very best you can get when you want to clean wood--even wooden floors, just as the other reviewer correctly notes. This stuff goes a long way and you don''t need to use lots of it in order to clean--just pour some into a bucket of water, mix the two for just a minute or so and voila! There you have it--a great liquid solution for cleaning wood surfaces and wooden floors.
This product can, according to some people I know, also be used to clean leather. However, I personally haven''t tried this one. If you want to try it, just clean a very inconspicuous area of the leather so that if it doesn''t satisfy you nobody will notice.
Obviously, this stuff is NOT meant to be ingested. Keep this product out of the way of children and pets.
Overall, Murphy''s Oil liquid soap for cleaning wood is the very best quality soap for cleaning wood available. I highly recommend this product.
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This stuff smells awesome -like citronella, if you''re into that sort of thing. There''s been some chatter about whether oil soap will actually damage your floors and leave a residue on them, so let me put that little rumor to rest right now. First of all, READ THE DIRECTIONS. You need to dilute this stuff before using it. By a LOT. Don''t just squirt it right from the bottle. I applied Murphy''s next to the Bona cleaner on my floors. Bona = dull matte finish. Murphy''s = clean and shiny. I had to go over the Bona section of the floor with the Murphy''s to make it shine again. I think I paid maybe $3 for my bottle at Target.
Bye-bye, Bona.
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You just can''t do any better than Murphy''s Oil soap to clean wood. I''ve used this stuff for so many years and my mother and grandmother used it before me. It gets everything wood clean and leaves such a great scent too behind. It doesn''t strip the wood and dry it out like most cleansers do, but instead, it replenishes it while cleaning at the same time. I''ve even used this on my hardwoo floors and they look gorgeous. I wouldn''t ever buy anything else out there the clean my wood. Period.
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