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Astral Hygiene Ltd – Your Trusted UK Partner for Comprehensive Cleaning and Hygiene Solutions

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  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...
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What Is BS EN 1276? Why It Matters for Cleaning and Disinfection

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  What Is BS EN 1276? Why It Matters for Cleaning and Disinfection  27th June 2025  | By Yewan Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene ,  Sustainability ,  Coronovirus When it comes to cleaning and disinfection, not all products are created equal. In environments where hygiene is critical—like food preparation areas, hospitals, schools, and public spaces—it’s essential to use disinfectants that are proven to work. That’s where BS EN 1276 comes in. This recognised European standard certifies that a product can kill 99.999% of harmful bacteria within minutes. In this post, we’ll explain what BS EN 1276 means, why it matters, and how to ensure the products you’re using meet this important benchmark. What Is BS EN 1276? Why It Matters for Cleaning and Disinfection When choosing cleaning products—especially in commercial, healthcare, or food environments—it’s vital to understand the standards that ensure safety and effectiv...
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Location: Astral Hygiene, Charlesfield Industrial Estate, St Boswells, Charlesfield, Melrose TD6 0HH, UK
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BS EN 1276 and BS EN 14476: Commonly Questions Answered

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  BS EN 1276 and BS EN 14476: Commonly Questions Answered  4th April 2025  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene We've answered some commonly asked questions about BS EN 1276 and what it means for your business. What does BS EN 1276 mean? The Food Standards Agency has published guidance documents for all food handlers to prevent the risk of cross-contamination of E-Coli. As Astral Hygiene are so well versed in food hygiene regulations we can now offer advice and support regarding the safe and most effective use of our products including  Cleaner Sanitiser  for use on Hard Surfaces, and Bactericidal Detergent for use in water to ensure safe food preparation. What exactly is BS EN 1276? BS EN 1276  is a European Standard which ensures that the bactericidal activity of chemical disinfectants is effective against controlling harmful micro-organisms. All BS EN 1276 chemicals have been tested to ensure they ...
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Location: Astral Hygiene, Charlesfield Industrial Estate, St Boswells, Charlesfield, Melrose TD6 0HH, UK
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Care Home Case Study – Uric Acid and Odour Control

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  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...
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Location: Astral Hygiene, Charlesfield Industrial Estate, St Boswells, Charlesfield, Melrose TD6 0HH, UK
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Safe cleaning & disinfection of TASKI cleaning machines

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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.    
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Location: Astral Hygiene, Charlesfield Industrial Estate, St Boswells, Charlesfield, Melrose TD6 0HH, UK
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Winter illnesses round up

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  Winter illnesses round up......  14th February 2025  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Hygiene ,  Environmental Health It feels like we have really high levels of winter illnesses this year, with a large proportion of our team here at Astral off all at the same time.  We have flu, RSV, COVID-19 and norovirus doing the rounds all a the same time, which is making sickness absence really high at this time of year. There are other virus that our government are also tracking including rhinovirus, adenovirus, human metapneumovirus (hMPV) and parainfluenza ... all of these are also peaking during the current winter months.  All of these virus's can be killed by a simple spray and wipe that you can find by following this  link....  In the UK, we offer free vaccines to vunerable groups for COVID-19, flu, and RSV. We have all heard the phrase 'stay at home' but this could never be more pertinant during this winter. All of these different virus's are spre...
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Location: Astral Hygiene, Charlesfield Industrial Estate, St Boswells, Charlesfield, Melrose TD6 0HH, UK
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