How To Clean Shower Head With Vinegar

by Taylor
(Stain-Removal-101.com)

Do you know how to clean a shower head with vinegar?

It is actually really simple to do.

All you need is the following:

Dirty shower head that has hard water deposits all over it

1 cup vinegar

Plastic sandwich bag

Large rubber band or bag tie

Directions:

Pour the vinegar into the sandwich bag and place the open end of the bag over the shower head so that the shower head is submerged in the vinegar.

To keep the bag from falling off the shower head use the large rubber band or bag tie to secure it around the shower head.

You should let the shower head soak for at least an hour, but preferably over night to let the acid in the vinegar do its job, and dissolve the hard water build up.

Once you remove the bag you can just wipe off the shower head with a soft cloth, and all the remaining particles of hard water build up should come off easily.

Alternative Method For Cleaning Your Shower Head With Vinegar

In addition, below is a video giving an alternate method for cleaning your shower head with vinegar.

The video suggests taking the shower head off, placing it in a pot of white vinegar and heating it on the stove for a while.

I have not personally tried this method, but the flaws I see in it are having to disassemble your shower head to clean it, and also the possibility of melting your shower head if it is plastic.

I like my method of using the baggie of vinegar to avoid these problems, but I would love to hear from you in the comments to hear which one you like to do better.

Perhaps there are advantages to this method below of using heated vinegar that I have not considered.

Here is the video for full details:

You can submit your own tips and recipes for the uses for vinegar around your home here, or read many other tips and ideas already submitted.

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How To Clean Shower Head With Vinegar

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The Vinegar Method Also Worked On My Kitchen Sink Sprayer!
by: Taylor @Stain-Removal-101.com

I tried to use my kitchen sink sprayer this morning, and it had just the most miserably puny little stream of water coming out. It has been spraying worse and worse for a while now, as the holes slowly seemed to be filling in with hard water deposits.

This morning it was just so bad I decided to take my own advice, and soak the sprayer in a bowl of vinegar. With just a couple of hours soaking it now sprays like new, and I didn't have to do anything at all! The vinegar just cleaned out all the little holes that I couldn't even crack with a toothpick before.

I will now personally attest you can use this method not only just for your shower head, but also for your kitchen sink sprayer too!

Yes, it should help loosen a blocked shower head
by: Taylor @ Stain-Removal-101.com

Alice, thanks for the question.

Yes, if the blockage in the holes of your shower head is caused by hard water build up the vinegar, which is mildly acidic, should help loosen the deposits.

After you have thoroughly soaked the shower head in vinegar I would suggest getting an old toothbrush and rubbing it over the blocked holes, to allow the bristles to get in there are help remove the loosened deposits.

Hope this helps!

Will this work for clogged shower head?
by: Alice

My shower head has several holes where it is almost blocked, or totally blocked, by hard water build up.

Will this work to help remove the junk blocking it inside the holes, because I can't get in those little holes to get it out?

Help!

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