Aluminum foil as glassware scrubber: To get baked-on food off a glass pan or an oven rack, use dishwashing liquid and a ball of foil in place of a steel-wool soap pad, says Mary Findley, president of the cleaning-products developer Mary Moppins.
Without fanfare (or media coverage) in the West, Beijing earlier this month dramatically cut the tax rebates that exporters get on more than 2, 200 products, including soap, plastics and glassware.