Choosing the best cleaning solutions is critical to maintaining the highest levels of hygiene and safety in your workplace. In today's world, where cleanliness is more essential than ever, the cleaning products you use can make a big difference in preventing diseases and maintaining a healthy work environment for yourself, your employees and your customers.
Here are Eco-Point, we work and supply cleaning products to over 20 specialist industries. So, believe us when we say, we know how tedious it may appear when choosing the best cleaning products for your business. We wanted to supply this simple article that goes over 8 major factors behind choosing the best cleaning products for your business.

1. Price

Understanding your budget is critical before making any purchasing decisions for cleaning products. It may be hard to believe, but obtaining a comprehensive assortment of high-quality cleaning products can be very costly. In short, do your research and select cleaning products that best suit your budget.
If you can afford it, opting to acquire both heavy-duty and everyday cleaning products will ensure you can stay on-top of all of your business cleaning requirements. If you’re running on a tighter budget however, you should delegate your budget to a few heavy-duty cleaning products. It will be a lot more impactful going for a few costly but effective cleaning products rather than a variety of cheap and less effective cleaning products.

2. Accessibility and availability

Accessibility is not usually considered by businesses; however, having a supplier that can match your demands is very important if you want to keep on-top of your business’s cleaning routine. If you have it on good authority that you will get through your stock of cleaning products quickly, then ensure your supplier can match your demands or supply heavy quantities at once.

3. Health & safety

When choosing cleaning solutions for your company, prioritising health and safety is vital. For illustration, the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH), a governing body, have established important rules and regulations behind protecting employee safety, such as diluting chemical concentrates safely or conducting safe manual cleaning and disinfecting. What’s also key here is establishing whether your business has the resources to train employees so they can stay within these regulations – protecting employees and your business. If you do not have the resources to train your employees, feel free to contact Eco-Point and we will try to offer the best solution for your specific needs.

4. Industry: customer-facing?

As stated, Eco-Point provide high-quality cleaning products to a variety of industries. Some of these industries are within customer-facing environments such as airports, railway stations or food businesses. If you are a business owner who operates in a customer-facing environment, you need to take extra care in ensuring your cleaning products are safe: by choosing products that are unlikely to cause allergic reactions or respiratory concerns in employees and customers.
It’s also important not to sacrifice on quality for customer-facing industries particularly. For example, recent reports from the UK government highlight consumers still have a lot anxiety on using public transport following on from Covid-19; so, using high-quality products is as important as ever to ensuring you are doing everything you can to ease your customers worries.  

5. Environmentally friendly

Having environmentally friendly cleaning products is obviously great on the environment; but, it can also be great at improving customer relations. It is fairly evident that people, particularly younger generations, are making more environmentally conscious decisions. Moreover, most adults report making changes to their lifestyle for environmental reasons, as reported by the Office of National Statistics.
Environmentally friendly cleaning products usually are
  • Heavily dilutable, saving on packaging costs
  • Non-hazardous and polluting
  • Solvent-free
Adhering to the best environmentally-friendly practices when selecting and using cleaning products will ensure you are aligning to the up-rise in the environmentally conscious generations.

6. Industry 2.0: general needs

Going more granular into your specific industry, the actual assortment of cleaning products you need will depend on your market. For example, the cleaning products needed for hospitality applications will differ greatly from industrial applications. To save this article becoming too long, we won’t go into the cleaning requirements for each particular industry; however, our product selection can be formatted based off your specific market. If you are keen to view what cleaning products others in your industry are purchasing, feel free to view our product selection and filter to your specific industry. If you would like to see a more in-depth going over the specific cleaning items needed for your industry, feel free to let us know!

7. Aqueous vs non-aqueous degreasers?

A majority of industries will need degreasers as part to their assortment to cleaning supplies. Degreasers fall into two major categories: Aqueous and non-aqueous. Unfortunately, this is again a much larger topic that can’t be covered in this article; however, Eco-Point have supplied an article going over this completely. If you are interested, feel free to check out Eco-Points article on what the differences are between Aqueous Degreasers and Non-Aqueous Degreasers.
As a general rule-of-thumb, aqueous and non-aqueous are:
Aqueous: Aqueous degreasers are not flammable or combustible; but, they can induce corrosion when used on certain metals.
Non-aqueous: They can be very powerful and are often available in an aerosol form. Some solvent degreasers are flammable, but non-corrosive.

8. Supplier

Ultimately, your cleaning products supplier should be one of the most influential factors behind your purchasing decisions. Choosing a provider who knows the important considerations in picking the best cleaning supplies can make a big difference in keeping your workplace safe and efficient. A supplier who understands your issues will ensure that you obtain not just high-quality cleaning items, but also relevant support and service.
Eco-Point make it a top priority to offer a variety of high-quality cleaning products that are catered to each of your specific needs and industry. If you are keen to explore our range of products, feel free to browse our product selection here!

Alternatively, if you have any questions regarding our cleaning product range or require expert help and suggestions, please contact us by phone at +44(0)14 9479 2803 or by email at [email protected]. Alternatively, you may use our contact form, and we will get back to you as soon as we can.