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  The Complete Guide to Commercial Washroom Hygiene for UK Businesses  29th June 2026 | By Yewan Armstrong Maintaining exceptional washroom hygiene is essential for every commercial environment, from offices and schools to hotels, restaurants, healthcare facilities and industrial workplaces. Clean, well-stocked washrooms not only help reduce the spread of bacteria and viruses but also create a positive first impression for employees, customers and visitors. Choosing the right commercial washroom supplies—including toilet rolls, paper hand towels, hand soap, soap dispensers, sanitary waste bins, air fresheners and professional cleaning chemicals—can improve hygiene standards, increase efficiency and reduce ongoing maintenance costs. Whether you're responsible for a single office or multiple sites, investing in quality washroom products helps ensure your facilities remain clean, compliant and welcoming. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore the essential washroom hygiene pr...

  Astral Hygiene Ltd – Your Trusted UK Partner for Comprehensive Cleaning and Hygiene Solutions  27th June 2025  | By Yewan Armstrong Astral Hygiene Ltd is a leading UK supplier of professional cleaning products, hygiene equipment, and PPE. With over 30 years of experience, we provide businesses across multiple sectors with trusted, high-quality solutions designed to keep environments safe, clean, and compliant. From powerful cleaning chemicals to advanced cleaning machines and eco-friendly options, Astral Hygiene is your reliable partner for all your hygiene needs. Astral Hygiene Ltd – Your Trusted UK Partner for Comprehensive Cleaning and Hygiene Solutions In today’s fast-paced commercial world, maintaining a clean, safe, and hygienic environment is more important than ever. Whether you manage a bustling hospitality venue, a busy healthcare facility, an educational institution, or an industrial site, having a reliable hygiene supplier is key to your success. That’s wher...

  Why Hand Washing Is So Important... Why is hand washing so important? Does it really have such an impact on your health?  10th March 2022  | By Rhea Crosbie   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene ,  Coronovirus 80% of known diseases are passed on through hands and touch alone; hands are the main culprit for spreading bacteria and this is why hand washing is a useful habit to encourage from an early age. In this blog, I want to give you all a clear understanding of hand hygiene and, in detail, explain how not washing your hands correctly can be extremely dangerous. Surprisingly, what people believe to be a simple task, if not done properly, can be life threatening.   Four of the most common ways bacteria is spread is: From the hands, eyes, nose, and mouth to other people From hands to food From food to hands to food, through handling raw vegetables or meat for example From children to adults In all of these examples above, you...

  What is PPE – Things you need to know  1st March 2022  | By Rhea Crosbie   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene ,  Sustainability ,  Coronovirus Personal Protective Equipment, also known as PPE has become crucial over the last few years due to COVID-19, to the point where it is now used daily by almost everyone across the world, including myself. Protective equipment such as face coverings, gloves and gowns are now vital to people’s lives, even more than they were before the virus. In some workplaces across the world, it is a legal requirement to wear PPE. However, yes, it may save hundreds of thousands of lives; but some choose to ignore this out of personal choice – but why? Do people really understand how important PPE is?   There are many different types of PPE but the term usually relates to clothing, headwear, or eyewear that has been specifically made to protect an individual who may face a health risk or danger i...

  What the professionals do with their blocked drains.....  8th February 2022  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene ,  Sustainability ,  Coronovirus From a customers point of view there is nothing more unappealing that going into a facility that needs more than a little maintenence. From overflowing sinks and toilets, to toilets that reek of urine due to a build up of uric acid, to damp walls and puddles one definately shouldn't be stepping in!  Winter actually magnifies the likelyhood of your drains becoming blocked, as typically your pipes become colder, meaning that kitchen oil and fat, and even body fat which will collect in your pipes solidify and block drains (bet you didn't know that)! So lets talk about each blockage and what you would use to ensure your water is free flowing. In your bathroom, showers and communal showers, sometimes; particluarly if your showers aren't maintained you will see...

  First Aid Kits.... important things to remember  21st September 2021  | By Anna Armstrong As the population becomes ever vigilant in terms of making sure that everyone is safe, First Aid kits can be seen almost wherever we go.  The increase in population, and the more movement that we as individuals are afforded, the more the likelihood you will be to find a First Aid Kit, whether it be in a public place or in a workplace.  It is absolutely best practice to make sure that at the very least there is a first aid kit.   View Astral Hygiene’s full range of First Aid Kits here.   Differing work environments have different requirements in terms of the first aid kits that need to be on site to comply with health and safety.  For instance in an environment where there are heated equipment (fryers, ovens, grills) you will require a  Burn First Aid Kit , which contains burn stop dressings, burn dressings etc – which will allow you to treat the burn i...