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What products do you like to use for cleaning your bathroom?

Do you like to use cleaners such as Lysol, Tilex, All Purpose Cleaner, Bleach etc, etc? What product do you find helps to keep your bathroom sparkling clean?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I like the thick formula Lysol Cling for the toilet and Tilex Soap Scum Remover for the shower and glass doors. Vinegar will work to clean many things, but it is not a strong enough acid to disinfect, without using a LOT and letting it sit for a long time. Ammonia will disinfect just as well as bleach, and cleans many things, but both require more scrubbing than other products to get the same results. Bleach will erode the grout in tile over time. Ammonia and bleach are much less expensive than Lysol and Tilex products, but the money saved is not worth the exra time and effort they take. Tilex and Lysol products work just as well as any of the professional grade products I've used.

    Source(s): Janitor
  • 1 decade ago

    Many of my kids have asthma, and I was told straight out by the allergist that the chemicals used in the house when they were young sensitized them to many of their allergens. After that I followed his advice and I actually have a nicer, cleaner house without all the harsh chemicals.

    Use a cup of ammonia in a gallon of hot water cleans the shower, washes walls and floors, disinfects everything just fine, and leaves it nice and clean smelling when it dries. I do use Lysol toilet bowl cleaner...it's a 2 part liquid in a squirt thing that the doctor recommends as effective, but not overboard. We use Lysol or Chlorox sanitizing wipes on toilet seats, the goofy part where the toilet seat is bolted down that looks grimy everytime a couple of kids have been in a bathroom, and on the faucet, handles, light switches, door knobs. And that's it. My kids breathe better, even I breathe better, and the house always smells clean.

  • 5 years ago

    Hello Pinky, To blank your residence from best to backside all you wish to have is washing up liquid, vinegar and lemon juice. A squirt of washing up liquid on a nylon scourer will blank your entire toilet tiles, bathtub, sink, glass displays and many others. Just rinse it down with the bathe and wipe extra water off with kitchen roll. To blank your rest room I advise a steam purifier that sanitizes it. Again wipe dry with kitchen roll. A little bleach in it each different day will restrict nasty stains and preserve the bathroom white. The kitchen will also be wiped clean with the identical purifier as the toilet best including just a little vinegar will restrict streaks on stainless-steel. To blank your refrigerator use bi-carbonate of soda and lemon juice. Mix in combination and dip a moist sponge into it and wipe the whole lot down within. The bi-carb will neutralize smells.To blank your microwave after it has bought crusty with burnt meals all you do is reduce a lemon in part and location it in a bowl of scorching water and location in microwave for 10 mins on complete vigor. Not best will the kitchen odor blank and lemony, the entire burnt on meals will with ease wipe away on kitchen roll. I like to make use of disposable paper towels for all my cleansing hanging them into refuse sack as I pass alongside. This approach there aren't any nasty rags breeding germs underneath the sink.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hear hear to the vinegar cleaning tips given above! It really is wonderful stuff. You can use it all around the house and you can combine it with washing up liquid for cleaning sinks, tiles etc.

    Another useful product is salt. How cheap is that!

    You can use it as a scrub for glass, tiles etc.

    These products are so cheap; they are environmentally friendly, very effective, and best of all, they do not harm your health.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I use bleach one day, ammonia the next. The bleach disinfects, of course, the ammonia cleans and shines. Just NEVER EVER EVER mix the two. It makes something like mustard gas. Very dangerous.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't like to use chemicals...however I am addicted to the new pledge wipes...they clean your mirrors, counter tops. And you don't need a bunch of them to get the job done. I love them.

  • 1 decade ago

    Waste of money all those products you mentioned and on top of that expensive, your best bet is good old White Vinegar, Baking soda, Borax, these laundry additives are inexpensive and clean just as well as the commercial type cleaners clean at a far lower cost and easier on the environment and your health. Try this for all your needs in your home and your vehicle cleaning needs,

    In the Bathroom

    Wash mildew from shower curtains

    Clean those ugly mildew stains off your plastic shower curtain by putting it and a couple of soiled towels in your washing machine. Add 1/2 cup laundry detergent and 1/2 cup baking soda to the load, and wash it in warm water on your machine's regular cycle. Add 1 cup white vinegar to the first rinse. Before the machine goes into the spin cycle, remove the curtain and let it hang-dry.

    Shine ceramic tiles

    If soap scum or water spots have dulled the ceramic tiles around your sink or bath, bring back the brightness by scrubbing them with 1/2 cup white vinegar, 1/2 cup ammonia, and 1/4 cup borax mixed in 1 gallon (3.7 liters) warm water. Rinse well with cool water and let air-dry.

    Whiten your grout

    Has the grout between the tiles of your shower or bathtub enclosure become stained or discolored? Restore it to its original shade of white by using a toothbrush dipped in undiluted white vinegar to scrub away the dinginess.

    Clean sinks and bathtubs

    Put the shine back in your porcelain sinks and bathtubs by giving them a good scrubbing with full-strength white vinegar, followed by a rinse of clean cold water. To remove hard-water stains from your tub, pour in 3 cups white vinegar under running hot tap water. Let the tub fill up over the stains and allow it to soak for four hours. When the water drains out, you should be able to easily scrub off the stains.

    Shine up your shower doors

    To leave your glass shower doors sparkling clean -- and to remove all of those annoying water spots -- wipe them down with a cloth dipped in a solution of 1/2 cup white vinegar, 1 cup ammonia, and 1/4 cup baking soda mixed in 1 gallon (3.7 liters) warm water.

    Disinfect shower door tracks

    Use vinegar to remove accumulated dirt and grime from the tracks of your shower doors. Fill the tracks with about 2 cups full-strength white vinegar and let it sit for three to five hours. (If the tracks are really dirty, heat the vinegar in a glass container for 30 seconds in your microwave first.) Then pour some hot water over the track to flush away the gunk. You may need to use a small scrub brush, or even a recycled toothbrush, to get up tough stains.

    Wipe down bathroom fixtures

    Don't stop at the shower when you're cleaning with vinegar! Pour a bit of undiluted white vinegar onto a soft cloth and use it to wipe your chrome faucets, towel racks, bathroom mirrors, doorknobs, and such. It'll leave them gleaming.

    Fight mold and mildew

    To remove and inhibit bathroom mold and mildew, pour a solution of 3 tablespoons white vinegar, 1 teaspoon borax, and 2 cups hot water into a clean, recycled spray bottle and give it a few good shakes. Then spray the mixture on painted surfaces, tiles, windows, or wherever you see mold or mildew spots. Use a soft scrub brush to work the solution into the stains or just let it soak in.

    Disinfect toilet bowls

    Want an easy way to keep your toilet looking and smelling clean? Pour 2 cups white vinegar into the bowl and let the solution soak overnight before flushing. Including this vinegar soak in your weekly cleaning regimen will also help keep away those ugly water rings that typically appear just above the water level.

    Clean your toothbrush holder

    Get the grime, bacteria, and caked-on toothpaste drippings out of the grooves of your bathroom toothbrush holder by cleaning the openings with cotton swabs moistened with white vinegar.

    Good Luck !

    Source(s): Personal experience Using White Vinegar to clean all around the house and laundry removes stains, cleans and disinfects all surfaces, deodorizes. White Vinegar is touted as being the best disinfectant in the world and is safe to use all around your home even does cars inside and out
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Pine-Sol, Soft-Scrub, and Comet bthroom spray are all the essentials I need for my bathrm.

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