Maintenance cycles used to prevent appearance decline and restore floor appearance.

When washing hands with soap and water, wet your hands with clean running water and apply soap. Use warm water if it is available.

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers — which don't require water — are an excellent alternative to soap and water. If you choose to use a commercially prepared hand sanitizer, make sure the product contains at least 60 percent alcohol.

Effective cleaning maximizes the physical removal of unwanted germs like the Swine Flu virus when appropriate cleaning agents and application methods are used. When performed frequently, the risk of spreading infectious germs is greatly reduced.

When people think of housekeeping, they generally think of home. But germs live everywhere—including the office. With so many common spaces and shared equipment, germs and illness are often spread at work. To help people stay healthy at work and at home, the Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) offers the following cleaning guidelines.

Get vaccinated. Vaccination is the best protection against contracting the flu. You need two vaccines to be fully protected this year. The seasonal flu vaccine is different from the H1N1 (Swine) flu vaccine. The CDC is encouraging people to get both vaccinations. Get the seasonal vaccination as soon as possible and get the H1N1 (Swine) flu vaccination as soon as it is available in early fall.

To your customers, the cleanliness of your restrooms says a lot about how you run your business. Because they consider restroom hygiene as a reflection of overall quality standards, a negative restroom experience can seriously tarnish an otherwise great reputation.

Procter & Gamble Professional, the away-from-home division of Procter & Gamble, today announced its corporate parent was cited as one of the “Greenest Big Companies in America” by Newsweek, placing 26th out of the 500 companies assessed.

COSTA MESA, Calif.,(Dec.11, 2012)–P&G Professional™, the away-from-home division of Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG),was recently awarded “Vendor of the Year” by El Pollo Loco for their Cleaning and Food Safety Program. P&G Professional was chosen from more than 100 supplier partners for their program’s effectiveness, which contributed to a 12.9 point improvement in El Pollo Loco’s cleanliness score in Nation’s Restaurant News and WD Partners’ second annual “Consumer Picks” survey. P&G Professional’s customized Cleaning and Food Safety Program also helped deliver bottom line savings to El Pollo Loco.

Everyone needs customers, and while new customers are always great, sometimes it makes more sense to target your already loyal customer base. A huge benefit of marketing additional services to your current client base is that they already know you.