Cleaning fans share 20p trick to remove grubby yellow stains from your toilet – it’s probably already in your cupboard
NO ONE likes scrubbing toilets, so when one woman asked for help removing grubbing yellow stains from her loo cleaning fans had the perfect solution.
There are a few reasons your toilet seat might might look a bit yellow, from urine stains to product build up and even sunlight.
Posting on the popular Facebook group Mrs Hinch Cleaning Tips and Tricks, where users share their best hacks and little-known budget habits, the woman asked for advise.
She wrote: “Could anybody help with suggestions of how to get rid of the horrible grubby yellow staining on my toilets.”
The cleaning fans also shared a snap of her toilet, which looked far from the bright white it once was.
Luckily, fellow keen cleaners had plenty of tricks up their sleeves and flooded the comment section of the post with them.
Many thought a Magic Sponge was the best way to go, while others suggested scrubbing the stains with The Pink Stuff, which is designed to cut through grease and grime and can be bought from most supermarkets for as little as £1.50.
However, there are even cheaper tricks people suggested that work wonders too.
“I recently read that you should spray an old stain on loo seats with shaving foam and leave to soak in, then wipe away,” one suggested.
And a second agreed: “Use men’s shaving foam spray on leave for 10 minutes.”
But there’s even a 20p trick you can try using kitchen staples baking soda and white vinegar.
How to clean your toilet with white vinegar and baking soda
Start with roughly one cup of white vinegar and pour it around the stained area on your toilet.
Using a toilet brush gently scrub away at the stains then allow the vinegar to sit for one or two minutes.
Then add an equal amount of baking soda to the stains – if they are under the water line ensure the mixture reaches down there too.
The baking soda should start to fizz when it comes into contact with the vinegar, so when this happens allow the solution to get to work for 10 minutes.
Then go back in with a your toilet brush and the stains should vanish. That said, if the discolouring is particularly bad you may need to repeat this process.
How to clean your toilet brush
After you’ve got your loo looking spick and span you’ll want to clean off your toilet brush – here’s how.
Simply fill a bucket with hot water and add two or three bleach capsules (always follow the advice on the bottle when doing this).
Leave the brush in there to soak for an hour, and then take it out and rinse using hot water.
You can put it back on hold once it’s dry.
You can also clean the holder while you’re waiting for the brush to dry.
To do so, simply use a disinfectant spray all over it, including the underside, or soak it in bleach water as you did with the brush.
Allow it to drain above the toilet for 10 minutes or so and then rinse it with boiling water.