Reader Linda Louise Johnson shares her favorite DIY tip, passed down from her mom (why are mothers so wise?).
Apple cider vinegar has many uses outside of the kitchen! Photo: AndyRob, Flickr
Apple cider vinegar was mom's solution for everything, but especially for cleaning toilets. Our old toilet bowl had a ring around the inside that just wouldn't come out, even with hard scrubbing. The lime in our house's hard water had etched that ring in, and even our trusty abrasive toilet cleaner couldn't get it out.
One day, Mom poured apple cider vinegar in the toilet and let it sit overnight. (Of course, when I looked in the toilet bowl and saw this amber liquid, I thought maybe someone had forgotten to flush. Luckily, Mom informed me otherwise!) In the morning, she took one quick swipe with the toilet bowl brush and the line was miraculously gone. Plus, the bathroom smelled like apples!
After that discovery, Mom added apple cider vinegar to the dishwasher detergent to make the glasses sparkle. She poured it on her hands to take away onion chopping smells, and added it to baking soda to create a mixture that got helped her get rid of carpet stains.
From that point on, there was always a big old jug of apple cider vinegar in the pantry. I use it in my own house now as my all-natural, go-to cleaning product.
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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)
How much vinegar in the toilet? I need something. I too have yellow rings that nothing will remove.
Replyif nothing works, get some c l r. cleaned my ring
When my toilet had that ring. I took a pumice stone and scrubbed the ring. It did take a lot of scrubbing, but it came off. I try to keep up with it before it gets too bad.
How to remove stain out of toilet I have to scrub foeever nothing works
CLOROX OVER NIGHT AND BOWL WILL SPARKLE IN THE MORNING
ReplyI had a bad ring in my toliet, nothing would touch it. I poured about about 4 cups of coke cola in it
Replyand let it sit awhile. Probably at least an hour or two, then used a stiff toliet brush, It loosend up the ring a lot and worked pretty good. Then I flushed and used "the works" on it. Found at wal mart next to draino. Every bit came off, and it looked like a new bowl on the inside. I had used vinegar and soda already and it did nothing.
I tried on my toliet overnight and it did nothing, I will try the Coke next.