How To Clean Iron Stains From Toilet Bowl

Removing iron stains from a toilet, the eco friendly style

When life gives you lemons... scrub your toilet
Photo credit: brad montgomery

I had an entire sunny, warm Saturday all to myself. No kids, no hubby, merely some lazy dogs soaking upward sun in the lawn and the audio of chickens clucking somewhere off in the distance. Judging by the championship of this post, you tin can brand a pretty firm judgement almost how heady my days off are. Simply when your 2 year onetime comes in and says something to the upshot of "it smells similar pee in here" you know you are well past the socially acceptable span of time between bathroom cleanings.

I ever promote the use of natural, chemical free cleaners; I merely had never been convinced they actually worked for tough situations.

I had e'er used harsh chemicals in the toilet bowl. We have a lot iron in our water and it stains the toilet within a few days afterwards cleaning information technology. Information technology is about impossible to scrub off and to exist real honest I have been doing just 'bare minimum' cleaning since the arrival of my 2d girl back in August. I had tried vinegar, baking soda, not-toxic all natural cleaners and nothing touched the atomic number 26 stains in the toilet. I've tried hand scrubbing, brush scrubbing and letting the cleaner soak for a few hours. Nil. The only success I have had in the past getting the toilet clean and bright white was to apply some sort of iron removing harsh chemic spray and scrubbing the living hell out of the toilet with gloves on and a little green dish srubbie. I probably don't accept to explain what level I experience at socially when I'1000 on my knees scrubbing stuck $.25 of god knows what off a nasty toilet bowl with just a stupid picayune green scrubbie. At least the noxious fumes of the cleaner gave me a bit of a free buzz while I was down there.

In steps the miracle of lemons and salt. I had a one-half of a lemon drying out on the counter for no apparent reason. I glanced over at it on my mode to tackle the filth that had taken over my bathroom and thought I'd requite this whole eco-cleaning affair i more shot. I had heard that lemons were a main staple in eco cleaning because of the acid, and using a fibroid salt was supposed to create an effective scrubbing action.

Gloves on, lemon in paw, I squeezed it a picayune to become the juices flowing and topped it with a heavy shaking of coarse sea salt. I had already dumped a big basin of clean water into the toilet to arrive do that magic thing where the water goes down but doesn't refill; the toilet was pretty much empty while I was cleaning information technology. I took the salted side of the lemon and used it to scrub the slime/fe/calcium that had congenital up in the bowl. "Are you kidding me." With minimal try a small portion of my toilet was really white. White! "Are you kidding me?!" I had not seen a white toilet bowl in about year. I had pretty much given upwardly on information technology and let the iron win this battle. "You take got to be kidding me." My dog had come in at this point and was staring at me wondering who I was talking to.

It did take some elbow grease in a couple of tough spots, but I just kept re-salting my lemon half and scrubbing away. That dried out half of a lemon was the but lemon in the house. I tin imagine the task would have gone even improve had the lemon been fresh and if I had more 1 so I could swap them out as they wore downwardly. It was pretty ragged looking lemon in the end.

I take no 'before' pictures of the said toilet. I had no promise of a simple thing like lemon and salt actually working similar information technology did, so I had no ambition to go out my camera before hand. When it was all done, I actually took three pictures of the toilet information technology was and then damn good looking.