Homemade Toilet Bowl Cleaner Recipes

by Taylor
(Stain-Removal-101.com)

There are many different ways you can clean your toilet using homemade cleaning supplies.

Below are three recipes for making your own toilet bowl cleaner that you can use.

Please note, however, that each recipe is separate and you should not combine these ingredients together.

For example, you should never combine vinegar and chlorine bleach, as toxic fumes may result (this is similar to not combining ammonia and chlorine bleach).

Recipe No. 1: Vinegar Toilet Cleaner

Pour in 1/4 cup of distilled white vinegar into the toilet bowl and allow it to sit for at least 15 minutes (or even longer) and then swish with a toilet brush, and flush.

Recipe No. 2: Clean Your Toilet Bowl With Chlorine Bleach

This recipe is the only one on the page which will actually thoroughly disinfect your toilet bowl.

(No, vinegar cannot be used as a disinfectant, although as any mild acid it does kill some germs.)

Pour in 1/4 cup chlorine bleach into the toilet bowl and let it sit for at least 15 minutes (or longer) to allow for total disinfection. Then, use your toilet brush to swish the toilet bowl and then flush.

Caution: Chlorine bleach can cause rust stains to set, so do not use this recipe for cleaning toilets that have rust stains, until you first remove the rust.

Recipe No. 3: Borax To Clean Toilets

Sprinkle 1/4 cup borax into the toilet bowl and use your toilet brush to scrub it around. Next, let the borax sit for at least half an hour (or even longer) and then flush.

You can see even more recipes below, from both me and from other readers. The beauty of homemade cleaning products is that there are generally many recipes that will work.

Do you have your own homemade cleaners recipes to share? If so, you can submit your cleaning recipes here, or read other recipes for making your own cleaning products.

In addition, I'd love for you to share your tips for how to clean a toilet here, or read other tips already submitted.

More Homemade Toilet Cleaner Recipes

by Taylor

Here are some more homemade toilet cleaner recipes you can use.

Natural Toilet Bowl Cleaner Paste

Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup borax


• 1/3 cup lemon juice

Directions:

Combine these ingredients to make a paste, and then apply the paste to the toilet bowl with either a sponge or cleaning rag.

Let the paste sit on the toilet bowl for at least two hours, then scrub off with a toilet brush and then rinse out the toilet by flushing.

Strong Cleaner To Remove Toilet Bowl Hard Water Scale

Ingredients:

• Oxalic acid (in either flake or powder form)

Directions: Shake the flakes or powder of oxalic acid into the toilet and let it react (this means it will foam) to the hard water scale, and the dirt embedded within it.

The hard water scale is alkaline in nature, so an relatively mild acid, like oxalic acid, will remove it well.

Another Natural Toilet Cleaner

Ingredients:

• 1 cup borax


• 1/2 cup white vinegar

Directions:

Wet the sides of the toilet bowl by flushing it, and then sprinkle the borax all around the toilet bowl. Next, spray or gently pour the vinegar on top of the borax onto the toilet bowl.

Let it sit for at least 4 hours, then scrub with a toilet brush and flush the toilet again to rinse it out.

Tell me in the comments how these homemade toilet cleaner recipes worked for you.

You can submit your own homemade cleaners recipes here, or read many others that have already been submitted.

Photo by (nutmeg)

How To Clean Toilet With Coke

The video below shows you how to clean toilet with Coke, as in Coca-Cola.

Believe it or not you can use Coke to clean your toilet, among other items in your home, mainly because of the phosphoric acid within the drink.

This acid, like all mild acids, can be used to cut hard water stains, and just generally clean.

The process is quite simple, and similar to using any other toilet bowl cleaner. Just pour the Coke in, making sure to coat the sides of the bowl, let it sit for an hour or so, then scrub with a toilet brush and flush.

Here is the video for full details.

Have you ever used this method for cleaning your toilet? If so, share your results with me in the comments.

In addition, you can share your own tips for how to clean a toilet here, or read other tips already submitted.

Further, you can share your uses for Coca-Cola around your home, or read other tips already submitted here.

Green Toilet Cleaner Recipe: Baking Soda & Vinegar

by A J Young
(Scoresby Australia)

AJ has shared this green toilet cleaner recipe.

AJ says:

Simply sprinkle the toilet pan with baking soda and then add a squeeze of white vinegar. When it begins to fizz give it a scrubbing.

Now you have saved the planet from all those toxic so called cleaners.

Taylor says:

Thanks AJ for sharing your homemade toilet bowl cleaner recipe.

You can use baking soda and vinegar, together, to clean lots of different things in your home. Does anyone else have some good suggestions for how to use these two cheap natural products together? If so, you can share your baking soda vinegar uses here, or read other tips and recipes already submitted.

Left photo by rowdykittens

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