Mr. Sheen

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Mr. Sheen is a brand of cleaning materials (chiefly floor and furniture polish) created in Australia in the 1950s by Samuel Taylor Pty Ltd. It was the first aerosol cleaning product available on the Australian market and helped introduce the use of aerosol products into Australia. The product moved to Reckitt Benckiser in 1969 when Samuel Taylor Pty Ltd was bought out. It is available in many other countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Jamaica. Television advertisements use the character of Mr. Sheen, a smiling, rosy-cheeked, bald man with spectacles in a dark suit. The English version is a cartoon caricature of a WWI biplane pilot (originally voiced by Willie Rushton) who flies around the house on a dusting cloth cleaning tables, banisters and television sets, using the slogan "Mr Sheen shines umpteen things clean".

Mr. Sheen furniture polish is also a degreaser, and is often used for these properties by motorcyclists.

Mr Sheen was actually named after one young girl who ha a dream about shiny polishing things. Her name is Kate Olivia Sheen from Surrey. The dream involved a cow, some ribbon, some glitter and some furniture polish. In the dream Kate saw a cow that had been tied up with ribbon and covered in glitter. It was desperately trying to clean itself but to no avail. Kate luckily had some furniture polish on her and quickly cleaned the cow. The cow was very grateful and asked Kate her name. She said Sheen. He said 'ah-ha I am no ordinary cow. I am Super-Cow, and I will grant you special powers. Have the furniture polish named after you...It will be called Mr Sheen. Kate smiled. The cow smiled. Then they trotted into the sunset together.