How many of you enjoy cleaning your bathrooms? I’m sure most of you don’t! I know for myself personally, it’s the room of my home that I like cleaning the least! That’s saying a lot from a self-professed clean freak like me!
With that said, I do like to use natural cleaning products around my home whenever and wherever I can. I will use things like baking soda, Borax, lemon juice, white vinegar, orange citrus oil, microfiber cleaning cloths and other natural cleaning agents.
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Here are 7 Natural Bathroom Cleaning Tips that I use in my own home.
1. Mix together a solution of 50/50 white vinegar with regular tap water in a spray bottle. You can spray this on you mirrors, faucets, sink, tub, toilet, etc. You can use a sponge or a microfiber cloth to wipe up all of the messes.
2. Use baking soda and a toothbrush or other small brush (I use a denture brush that I got at the dollar store which holds up much better than a toothbrush) to scrub your grout, hard water stains and other goo that gets around your faucets and drains.
3. Use Borax or baking soda to clean the toilet bowl! Just sprinkle one of them in the bowl and let it sit for 30 minutes. Then use a toilet brush to loosen things up and flush. If you have any foul odors lingering…put a 1/4 cup of white vinegar into the toilet bowl and let it sit for 15 minutes before flushing. Not fond of vinegar? Any of the citrus oils can be placed (a few drops) into the toilet bowl to freshen things up.
4. Use a dry microfiber cleaning cloth or a jeweler’s polishing cloth to shine up all of your metal bathroom fixtures (faucet, drain, towel bars, light fixtures, etc.)
5. If you want to clean your toilet scrub brush…get a bucket out and fill it halfway with water. Pour in 3/4 to 1 cup of white vinegar and let your scrub brush soak in the solution overnight. Rinse under clean water, air dry and it’s ready to go.
6. Unclog shower heads by soaking them in white vinegar. Remove the head from the shower arm and place the shower head in a bucket with undiluted vinegar. Let it soak for a few hours to remove clogs. Rinse in clean water before reinstalling.
7. Don’t forget to clean the “other” things! Fill up a bucket with a solution of 50/50 water & white vinegar. You can soak hair brushes, bath toys, soap dishes and other items in the solution to clean them. Let items soak for about an hour and then rinse or wipe clean.
In addition to the 7 natural bathroom cleaning tips that I listed above…I also use a handheld steam cleaner and a steam cleaning mop that I got to review last year. I use that to clean my shower doors, shower walls and floor. It uses the power of hot steam to clean and disinfect.
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I have used several of these methods and they seem to work great! Wish I had a steam cleaner. That will have to go on this year’s list!
Thankyou so much for this very helpful Post! #2 is the one that I really needed help with! I always have trouble getting the gunk around the faucets and drains in the bathroom. Baking soda and a small denture or tooth Brush is what I will use! 🙂 Our water here has a lot of iodine in it.. It makes rust marks in the toilet bowl and bath tub.. I usually use a product made for removing these type of stains!! I will try the white vinegar but I am not sure it would work. I too have a steam mop with a detachable hand steamer! I will use it on my Bathroom floors, shower walls,
and tub.
I’m relatively new to the vinegar party, but I’m a staunch believer now. I think it actually works better than the expensive chemical cleaners I used to buy. I admit that I’m not really a very good housekeeper, but the bathroom is one place I do keep up with!
I do #1 tip – it works great.
Thanks for a most helpful post!
These are good tips on how to use natural ingredients for cleaning. I find that an alcohol wipe will help shine and loosen the grime around faucets too.
This is a good reminder to me to make use of natural products to clean. I do prefer not to use products with lots of chemicals but sometimes just forget how handy both baking soda and vinegar can be. I do use a vinegar, baking soda and hot water solution every few months to clean my drain and it works like a charm
I definitely do not like cleaning the bathroom, lol. But I have heard many people say they use vinegar to clean in every room. (Lemon juice is another thing I’ve heard people say they use, and, strangely, vodka—which seems like an expensive way to clean, lol.)
I love using vinegar to clean! I always use a vinegar mixture and a microfiber towel to clean my mirrors and windows! I also use vinegar and baking soda to clean the drains out! Great ideas here!!
I use both vinegar and baking soda to clean. Both work well for things. I even use baking soda in the laundry. I think if you have hard water vinegar is the very best solution. I know we have run vinegar through our hot water heater to get rid of calcium (hubby is a carpenter so we know what we are doing LOL) it turns the callcium blue and you have to uninstall shower heads and aerators but it works well.
My two cleaning friends– baking soda and white vinegar! I even like the smell of vinegar but I am not a cleaning nut like you are but wish I was. I read every cleaning tip blog post you write and it motivates me so hope you post many more in the New Year. I recently won a 4-pack of Mr. Clean Magic Erasers and can’t wait to use them–that’s about the extent of my excitement for cleaning, lol.