8 Cleaning Products You Should Never Mix Together, An Expert Explains

Whether you’re making your own DIY cleaning solution or simply trying to power through your cleaning, it’s important to know your way around your cleaning chemical cabinet.

Any time you are working with cleaning products, keep in mind that they are chemicals—and some do not play nicely together, according to cleaning expert Michael Silva-Nash of Molly Maid.

Though chemicals should always be approached with caution, particularly when it comes to combining them with other varieties, we’re focusing on combinations that should be avoided completely, whether the mixture creates harmful chemical gases to cleaning agents that simply cancel each other out. 

To help inform this no-fly list of cleaning couples, we enlisted the help of experts to share which cleaning products should never be combined.