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  Professional Carpet Cleaning Solutions for Vets, Clinics & Commercial Spaces  9th July 2025  | By Yewan Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene Professional Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning: Essential Solutions for Veterinary Clinics, Commercial Spaces & Janitorial Services In high-traffic environments like veterinary clinics, healthcare practices, offices, and educational facilities, cleanliness is more than just a visual concern—it’s a health and safety necessity. Carpets and upholstery in these settings are exposed to a daily barrage of contaminants, from muddy footprints and pet accidents to food spills and embedded bacteria. To meet these unique challenges, Astral Hygiene provides a robust range of commercial-grade carpet and upholstery cleaning products. In this guide, we’ll explore three of our top-performing solutions that are designed to deliver professional results—whether you're managing a veterinary surgery...

  Care Home Case Study – Uric Acid and Odour Control  21st March 2025  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene Following on from last weeks case study, I thought this week I’d expand and discuss the best way and the appropriate products to help to control the odours associated with incontinence. The urine odour that is associated with urinary incontinence is caused by the water products from the kidneys, including ammonia, urea and other compounds. These water products are encased by protein, which is made up of amino acids – amino acids are inherently sticky, so they stick to any surface that isn’t completely smooth. This characteristic means that uric acid sticks in between tiles, to grout and to the fibres that make up mattresses. The thing about uric acid, the smell comes from the break down of urea into ammonia. In dementia patients dehydration is an important factor, as many patients forget to drink and become de...

Safe cleaning & disinfection of TASKI cleaning machines You know how important it is to clean your hands, so  clean your TASKI machine  to ensure the highest cleaning quality. At TASKI we design our machines to be easy to clean and disinfect. Features such as  easy access to recovery tanks, easy to clean yellow maintenance points and tool free accessories  all add up to a higher frequency of cleaning and vastly superior hygiene. Yellow maintenance points –  vacuum recovery filters, clean water filters, squeegees, pad drives & brushes  are all colour coded and easy to clean. Colour coded clean (blue)  and  dirty (red) water hose caps  to differentiate and help prevent cross infection when cleaning. To help with cleaning and reducing cross infection TASKI squeegees need  no adjustment and require no tools  to remove for cleaning. TASKI yellow pad drives & brushes feature  touchless operation.     Related cle...

  Red Wine Removal... in minutes By Anna Armstrong Hello, Anna here from Astral. Today I wanted to talk to you about some products, but importantly about stain removal. I wanted to introduce a new range that we have in stock right now currently. It is available in our tick tock shop and on our webshop (https://www.astralhygiene.co.uk/products?t=dew). It is the DEW range, an electolysed water range, with a shelf life of two years. It is entirely natural, approved by Allergy UK, which is important. It is not going to create any nasty symptoms, they are so so safe that it is no hazard warning signs on any of the products at all. A real revolution in terms of the kinds of products we have brought in here. I wanted to talk to you today particularly about stain removal and Superclean. This is a bottle of red wine, which I have just wantonly poured over the carpet. So we are going to use superclean to get rid of this red wine by just dabbing. Red wine has been spilled on your carpet, OMG ...

  How to choose the right floor pad?  5th May 2022  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene ,  Sustainability ,  Coronovirus                                                                                                                                                                                                       ...