Valeriana Magazine

Superhero day - and how you can be one too

On the 28th April, the United States celebrates National Superhero Day. This peculiar holiday dates back to a group of employees of the comic book publisher Marvel, who "flew" to work in superhero capes on this day in 1995. Since then, primarily c...

5 clever tips for sustainability in your household

When leaving the room, turn off the light, turn devices completely off instead of leaving them on stand-by-mode, keep your morning shower as short as possible and dispose of your garbage properly: These tips you have probably heard many times befo...

The psychology of cleaning – why a clean home is good for our state of mind

Most of us know it too well. The laundry pile has been waiting for weeks to finally be folded and stowed away. The dust on commodes, bookshelves and wherever else it settles, piles up. The oven and the refrigerator could use a deep cleaning. In th...

The least popular household chores of the Swiss

Housework — some love it, some hate it. Some use it to relax, others get anxious just thinking about it. What about you? A study by Immowelt looked at which household chores are perceived as the greater and which as the lesser evils. They asked 50...

This is how you celebrate Christmas in Eritrea

Merry Christmas! Huh? Again? Already? Yes, again — or perhaps “just now”. Because for some religious communities in the world, Christmas is celebrated today, and this includes Eritrea. Since a good chunk of our employees is originally from Eritrea...

Giving and taking: the psychology of gift-giving

Big or small, store-bought or homemade? All that matters is that it’s from the heart! Christmas time is also the time of giving, and every time you give a gift to someone else, you also give one to yourself: the gift of serotonin!

Places we like: The Malaika Theater

Malaika. That’s how beautiful the Arabic-Swahili word for "angel" sounds like. And for many people in Zurich, the theatre integration is, like the name says, a gift from heaven: Around 40 people from different cultures, generations and religions c...

Do something simple and effective against the climate crisis

Do you know how you could actively fight the climate crisis? But you don’t quite know where to start? Well, we have a great tip for you!

International Cleaner’s Day

Today we celebrate International Cleaner's Day. We especially celebrate the people that stand behind it. All people that work in the cleaning industry and thus make a living. It is thanks to them that our homes shine like new and that there is ord...

How we deal with damages

Oops! It’s always frustrating when something happens that really shouldn’t have happened. That is why we do our utmost to prevent damage or — in the event of an incident — to follow it up. How exactly we do that, we will reveal right here!

Revealing our best tips & tricks

The weekend is just around the corner and we’re in an excellent mood! So much so that we are willing to impart on you a few of our near-magical tips and tricks that will push your cleaning game to the next level!

Support our recruitment process!

Have you ever noticed how people have a total soft spot for getting-to-know-you stories? Movies usually don’t focus on the mundane, everyday aspects of relationships, but on how these came into being in the first place. We also prefer to enquire a...

Why we use minimalist, efficient and gentle cleaning products

The snow hasn’t quite melted away yet, but everyone seems to be in spring cleaning mode already. That’s at least according to all the window cleaning orders that have been piling up in our inbox. But hey, the chocolate Easter bunnies also already ...

For more accessibility in communication

What do stairs and language have in common? Some people may find this to be a difficult question to answer — because it has never been relevant to their own lives. For others, the question may be so pertinent that hardly a day goes by where they d...

Coronavirus — how we protect you and our staff members

Another article about that thing that starts with “C”? Sure, we’re all getting very tired of it, but the coronavirus is still with us and will probably continue to be so for quite some time. To make sure that we all get through these difficult tim...

Visit us at the 2020 Startup Night in Winterthur

There’s a first time for everything, and as start-up founders, we seem to be achieving one first after another: Creating a business for the first time, hiring employees for the first time, processing our first orders and getting the feeling for th...