Did you know that by wiping your countertops with a sponge and then using that same sponge you can cross-contaminate bacteria onto your dishes thus put you and your family at risk for food poisoning? Take better care of you and your family by cleaning the sponges once a week. Sponges can hold invisible bacteria for a long time (about 20 million microbes per sponge)! Wow and yuck!

Soaking the sponge for 48 hours in Bleach, lemon juice, oxy, only kills about 37%-87% of bacteria! This is alarming! Get rid and halt bacteria growth on your sponges by doing one of these two easy methods.

1. Microwave your sponges weekly. Put the sponges in a microwave safe container. Add water and cleaning agent. Microwave sponges until very hot! Usually about 4-5 minutes.

2. My favorite! Simply place dirty sponges in diswasher once a week. No need to add cleaning agent,only what you normally put in your dishwasher to clean dishes. Wha la you are done!

This guide is written by a nurse who hates bacteria

By the way I forgot to mention, these two methods kill bacteria 100% !!!!!!!!!! The hot temperatures gets rid of all microbes!