A wet, dirty sponge sits in soapy water along with dirty dishes - Aditya Galang Mahafi/Shutterstock With every wipe, surfaces you mean to clean could end up dirtier than they were before you started.

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Poor dish sponges—so often an afterthought, left to languish on the edges of kitchen sinks without care or concern for their well-being or continual state of damp. We all know that keeping our sponges ...

This old-school cleaning habit is notorious for spreading bacteria around your kitchen, but, thankfully, most people are ...

DURHAM, N.C. (StudyFinds.org) – Germaphobes beware, it may be time to ditch the kitchen sponge for good. A new study by Duke University researchers found the average kitchen sponge is crawling with ...

If you had to rank the dirtiest things in your home, you’d probably start with the bathroom—the toilet, the plunger, or the hand towels you don’t wash as often as you should. But as it turns out, if ...

NORWAY -- Kitchen sponges harbor more bacteria than kitchen brushes, which may be a more hygienic way to clean your dishes, according to researchers in Norway. "Salmonella and other bacteria grow and ...

Here's something that might turn your stomach. A study included DNA analysis of 14 kitchen sponges taken from private households that found 362 kinds of bacteria, even more than typically found on a ...

I like using a dish wand as a quick and easy way to wash dishes if I only have a few to do or if the dishwasher is full. I typically use the sponge heads with the scouring pads. They work well, but ...

Your kitchen sponge should be cleaner than the dirty dishes it comes in contact with, but if your sponge has been sitting in a puddle by your sink for several weeks, that may not be the case. It's no ...

With every wipe, surfaces you mean to clean could end up dirtier than they were before you started. Kitchen sponges, those handy tools we grab without thought several times a day, potentially harbor ...