Customer Reviews

Bar Keepers Friend® Cleanser & Polish: 12 OZ

5 star:		(125)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I use this stuff for almost everything. Cleaning sinks, bathtubs, toilets, calphalon pans, stainless steel pans, my grill, stainless steel anything, silverware, the kitchen sink, and best of all is the glass in our shower. I have tried EVERYTHING to get the hard water spots off of our shower glass, but CLR and Lime Away didn't do the job. I found this and BAM! With minimal scrubbing I was able to make my shower glass crystal clear. I've gotten so many hooked on this stuff and they keep telling me new uses for it.

UPDATE: (January 19th 2011) This stuff is still amazing, but be aware that this is an acid and can eat through things if left on too long or not cleaned. ALSO, this is an abrasive! DO NOT USE IT ON CHEAP CHROME PLATING as I used this on a cheap shower trinket to get the soap off of and the chrome began to crack, flake and the metal rusted (this goes back to it being a strong acid). ALSO, I'm a man who is not a big fan and do not condone the use of men using "Moisturizer". Using this stuff on bare hands can dry the hands out as it cleans them a bit too well. I tend to protect my delicate.. I mean manly hands with nitrile gloves. ALSO, do not leave the chemical on stainless too long. It will blotch it white if left on TOO long. My guess is that it eats at ferrous metals or possibly the chromium content.

We had a red stain in the kitchen sink. I went to Home Depot and grabbed this stuff because it was $1.79. I take it home and use it on the sink, it got the stain out. The next day I decided to use it on the tub. Keep in mind that the tub was from the 1920's and it looked like it, it was gray in color. So I put a little BKF on the tub and started scrubbing. That's when I got irritated with it because the gray on the tub turned to slime and started to come off and reveal the white of the porcelain. I hate cleaning the tub and usually put as minimal effort into cleaning it. But I knew that the tub would look awesome totally white again. I probably cleaned off scum from at least 40 years of tenants prior to us. This product rocks.
Here is a tip. I use it on my ceramic tile in the entire bathroom. The tip is to use a green scrubby pad and lightly wet it. Put the BKF on the pad and put it all over the tile. It will be slightly sudsy. Leave it on and let it dry till it looks like chalk all over your tile. Take a dry terrycloth towel and wipe it off. Your tile will look like a mirror!
Its funny how through creative marketing products that actually work like this one get lost. People end up buying less effective products because they smell nice. Then the younger generations get a hold of products like BKF and think its the greatest thing since sliced bred, only to find out that our grandparents have been using it for decades.

Muriatic acid had accidently been spilled in my new kitchen sink and left some unsightly stains. I tried all sorts of products and googled stainless steel and acid and stumble upon a link to this product on Amazon. However since I live in the Caribbean, I was disappointed to learn that there were restrictions to buying and shipping this item to a non-US address.

Anyhow, to make a long story short, I happily discovered tonight, that this product is sold at a local supermarket for US$3. I bought it and am thrilled to report that I have just finished removing those ugly stains from my sink. It really worked!!! I can't wait to try it on other stuff around the home this weekend!

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I live in Seattle WA. Since our waters are different from State to State, I thought I should mention that. I moved into this new house 5 years ago, and since then shower glass doors became dull and dim due to hard water stain. As we all know, cleaning the hard water stain from shower glass door is almost impossible! Like many, I have tried many, many cleaners: CLR, Lime-Away, Windex, Oxyclean, etc... But they did not remove hard water stains. Until I tried Bar Keepers Friend (BKF). Since it was less than two dollars, I thought I would give it a try. And wow!!! It works!! My shower glass door is clean and looks new! My wife was shocked!!!

But here is how you do it (steps 1-6 should take about 10-15mins):
1. Get a window scrubber that will clean tough stains (not sponges). I found one in Home Depot.
2. Wet the shower glass door with water.
3. Apply BKF directly to a wet glass scrubber.
4. Then apply it to shower glass door.
5. Scrub in a circular motion, then side to side and up and down.
6. Rinse the shower glass door thoroughly.
7. REPEAT the process (1-6) next 4 days.

Step 7 is important. You will not see the radical difference right away. I saw the difference in two days. But after four days, the shower glass door looks brand new. It is worth it!

BKF = less than $2.00
Scrubber = $4.00
A Joy of seeing the incredibly clean shower glass door = priceless

OMG This stuff is great! I have some super expensive cookware and you can't just clean it with anything. The manufacturer suggested to use white vinegar to remove spots and other such discolorations to keep it looking new. The vinegar didn't work at all. I used BKF and what a difference it made. All I had to do was sprinkle a little on a moist surface, use a paper towel and work in circular motions forming a paste. After about 30 seconds I rinsed it off and it was like new! Every piece I have used it on now looks like new. I will always use BKF on my pots.

I also used it on my stainless steel sink, it removed scratches a roommate made by cutting something on the corner (instead of using a cutting board). And the sink has a wonderful shine to it. I haven't gone much farther than the kitchen but I will venture in other areas of the home and outside. (This stuff is supposed to remove rust, I believe it will!)

Well, OK, you can't take a bath in it or use it on delicate surfaces like finished wood and nonstick cookware, but for just about any hard nonporous material, it's the cleaner to reach for.

It's the Fountain of Youth for your stainless steel cookware, removing rainbow heat marks and mineral discoloration with minimal elbow grease. Used with a lighter touch, it makes your heirloom Corning Ware original Pyroceram cookware sparkle like the day Mom bought it. Ditto for Pyrex and Anchor Hocking glass ovenware, as well as stoneware slow cookers. I use it to clean those little specks off the window in the oven door after a self-cleaning cycle. The window's as clear as the day they delivered the stove.

If you're a fan of unlined copper bowls for beating egg whites, you already know about tarnish. A couple minutes with some Bar Keeper's Friend, and that copper bowl is ready for another batch of meringue or Belgian waffles.

It's really hard to find in our area- Williams Sonoma is the only place I've found and they want a lot more $ for it. I use it on my AllClad, which I want to take good care of, as well as on stainless sinks.

Length:: 0:46 Mins

After telling my friend I was about to invest in my first copper pan, she recommended Bar Keeper's Friend (I was opting for another cleaner), but she swore by it. So I bought this cleaner on February 25, 2011 for the Mauviel Copper Saucepan Mauviel Cuprinox Extra-Thick 2.5 mm 3-1/2-Quart Saucepan with Lid purchased on February 17, 2011. As you can see by my video, it took months to get the copper lid in that condition, yukky, so that I could show the cleaner test results.

Took a wet cotton towel, dabbed the cleaner, and scrubbed the copper lid. The cleaner does clean and polish. The heavily-stained water droplet marks (it's slight but visible) took one more of "rubbing" after the video was completed. Upon inspection this very first thorough cleaning process did leave fine scratch marks despite using the cotton cloth, so that's why I rate this a 4. Maybe a different cotton cloth or not leaving my lid so dirty could make a difference but overall I like the cleaner. Hope the video helps. OkSiPak :) July 10, 2011

I had a pair of black plastic designer eyeglasses frames that turned milky white on the temples and the frame fronts after about two years of wearing them. I tried a lot of automotive plastic conditioners to remove the milky white oxidation but nothing worked and some products actually made it much worse (i.e. ArmorAll wipes).

I had read an article on LifeHacker about using toothpaste to polish plastic and other materials and thought, hmmmm, I might be able to do the same for my glasses frames. The article didn't say how or why toothpaste worked but I figured the reason was because it had some grit in it. Unfortunately, the only toothpaste I had was a whitening type, so consequently, I was rather hesitant to try it since whitening was the problem I was having in the first place! I had used Bar Keepers Friend to polish other stuff in the past with great results so I decided to try in on my glasses frames. For example, Bar Keepers Friend also works marvelously at removing the windshield wiper streaks\scratches from your windshield.

To remove the oxidation, I made a paste of Bar Keepers Friend and water, and used my fingers and the paste to polish the black plastic. To mix the the paste, I used about 1 or 2 parts water to 1 part Bar Keepers Friend. It took about 3 minutes of rather firm rubbing per temple to remove the oxidation. When I was done polishing, I rinsed the frames with water, dried them with a towel and the black frames looked good as new. Note, I was careful to not rub the paste on the lens because I'm sure it would remove the anti-glare coating. The Bar Keepers Friend paste had just enough grit to remove the milky white oxidation and restore the shine, but not enough to leave any noticeable scratches in the plastic. All in all, it worked like a champ and saved me $$$ by not having to buy new glasses.

You can clean a lot of things with it as long as it has a hard surface that won't be destroyed by a mild scrubbing agent. It brings so many things back to a like new appearance. Was $2.49 at Jewel-Osco in Chicago. Best money spent for a cleaning product.

My main reason for getting it was to remove the heat marks from my stainless steel pans. Did that and more with minimal effort. It also brings back copper cookware to a luster that it only had while you were paying for it at W&S! Did a wonderful job of cleaning the porcelain surface of our tub with virtually no hard scrubbing. All you have to do is just apply a tiny amount of pressure on a non abrasive scrub pad or rag and make tiny circular motions, rinse and DONE! Like new again.

There is a reason its been made for $130 years ... a secret that P&G or any other brand of cleaning product hasn't been able to figure out.