20+ Bathroom Cleaning Hacks Using Surprising Ingredients
- Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Powe Wipes work miracles. Thess lil’ cleaning sheets are tough on dirt all around the house, from walls and bathtubs to soap scum stains. We recommend keeping them near your shower so you can spot clean while you simultaneously condition.
- Dry and disinfect your toilet brush. After using it, let your toilet brush drip dry by closing its handle firmly between the toilet seat and bowl. Once it’s dry, spray it with disinfectant. You can also pour some bleach or white vinegar into the toilet brush caddy to eliminate germs, but be sure to let it dry or pour it out before replacing the brush.
- Use a bleach pen on discolored grout in the shower or on walls. Yes, this is a tedious task, but hey… Your grout is worth it.
- Use baby oil to polish fingerprints and grime off of chrome fixtures. Apply with a damp cloth or cotton ball and buff until you can see your reflection.
- Make a DIY air freshener with rice and essential oils in a mason jar with a fabric lid. Use about 1-2 cups of rice to 10-20 drops of oil. We recommend rosemary, lavender, or eucalyptus — but if you’re more of a cinnamon spice or citrus blend type, you do you. Shake occasionally to generate yummy smells.
- Black tea’s tannic acid cuts the grime off glass surfaces. Wipe tea onto shower doors with paper towels and wipe off with a clean rag to prevent limescale build-up.
- Stash silica gel packets in your bathroom drawers and medicine cabinets to reduce moisture and humidity. You were just going to throw them straight in the trash anyway! These little guys will prevent mildew build up and stop razors from rusting.
- Use your Swiffer Duster Heavy Duty Super Extender to dust hard to reach places. With its extendable handle, you’ll be able to hit those ceiling fans and vents. The Swiffer’s specially coated fibers trap and lock dirt and dust so it won’t all rain down into your eyes and hair.
- Chopsticks and toothbrushes make perfect tools for those hard to reach nooks and crannies. Those narrow crevices around the faucets, skinny grout lines, and tricky vents are always so annoying to reach with a rag or sponge. Try wrapping a paper towel or rag around the outside of the chopstick to really get in there. You can also boil and bend toothbrush heads (just like you used to do with your field hockey mouthguards!) to achieve ideal corner cleaners that can be reused over and over.
- Aspirin’s salicylic acid can help to remove soap scum from the bath and shower. If you’re at a total loss for cleaning supplies, tap into your aspirin stash, crush up a few, and add to water to make a DIY bathroom cleaner.
- Dampened dryer sheets are perfect for wiping soap scum spots off of your bathtub, tiles, and fixtures. If they’re scented, it’s a bonus.
- Nonstick cooking spray or cooking oil breaks down lime deposits. You can wipe or spray it onto shower doors, then wipe off with a wet soapy rag and rinse with warm water. You can also use an oil spray to shine the faucets and chrome or stainless steel fixtures, then wipe off with water. PSA: Oil is slippery! So mind your step while lubing up your shower doors, and be sure to wash it off as best you can so your next shower doesn’t end with a bang.
- Shaving cream contains glycerin, which creates a protective coating on mirrors. Cleaning your mirrors with shaving cream will actually prevent them from getting steamy and fogging up during your shower. Simply spray on shaving cream and wipe it off with paper towels. Shaving cream works well for polishing chrome and stainless steel, too. Its emulsifiers work as gentle cleaning agents. Fun fact: You can also use shaving cream to get makeup stains out of clothes or to clean your jewelry.
- Baking soda does all the things.
- Unclog your drain by pouring boiling water down it, adding 1 cup of baking soda followed by a warm water/vinegar mixture and then more boiling water.
- Spray a vinegar and baking soda solution onto your shower curtain, rod, and rings. Let it sit for an hour then rinse it off with warm water. This should get rid of any mildew, mold, or grime. Alternatively, you can throw your shower curtain into the washing machine with a ½ cup baking soda, adding a ½ cup vinegar to the rinse cycle to finish it off.
- Sprinkle some baking soda into the bottom of your bathroom’s wastebasket to prevent it from getting stinky.
- Effervescent antacid tablets combined with a cup of distilled vinegar will also unclog a drain. Let the mixture sit in there for about ten minutes then dump boiling water down the drain to clear it. Cure both your drain’s clogs and heartburn with this simple solution.
Congratulations, you’ve made it to the end of this colossal list of hacks. You’re, like, twenty-three hacks smarter than you were at the beginning of this article. That’s a lot of hacks. Next time you run out of cleaning products, you no longer have an excuse for postponing your bathroom cleaning duties ‘til tomorrow. (Sorry, not sorry.) Whether it’s vinegar and baking soda, cola, and baby oil or lemons and black tea, you’re bound to have some household solution on hand.
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