The Best Surface Cleaners, Wipes, and Disinfectants

This guide covers hard-surface household cleaners that are effective general purpose cleaners, and they also are all approved by the EPA to rapidly eliminate the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The virus may survive and remain infectious on some hard surfaces for up to three days, and disinfecting surfaces remains a cornerstone of the CDC’s guidelines for protecting yourself. However, as of April 2021, the CDC’s position is that contaminated surfaces are not a major source of infection (rather, the CDC says, person-to-person contact is, and airborne transmission can occur in enclosed spaces).