How to Clean a Toilet Bowl Ring?

No one, including me, loves toilets with dirt and stains. Toilet bowls always develop stain rings. No matter how you are taking care of your toilet bowl. It is always a challenge to keep the toilet bowl satiny.

Every home has the question- How to clean a toilet bowl ring? What are the ways to clean stained toilet bowls?

Toilet bowl rings develop due to various reasons. Here is the list.

1. The toilet was kept unused for a long time.
2. Use of hard water in the toilet.
3. Harboring bacteria in toilet water.
4. Prolong gap in cleaning the toilet.
5. Ignoring the initial stages of stain creation in the toilet bowl.

Anyone or a combination of the abovementioned reasons can cause toilet rings and spots in the toilet bowl.

Why there are different colored stains on the toilet bowl ring?

You must have seen there are various types of stains in your toilet bowl. They may be brown or rusty, green, orange, black, yellow, or pink. Do you know what it means to have a color of stains in your toilet bowl?

Let us see.

A yellow ring in the toilet bowl summons immediate and regular maintenance of the toilet. Irregular maintenance leads to the yellowing of the toilet bowl.

Rusty or Brown color stains in Toilet bowls develop due to mineral deposits and the use of hard water. When the water is used in the toilet is hard meaning having heavy minerals in it, causes rusty brown stains on the toilet bowl. If hard water gets stranded in the toilet for a long time, it causes a ring in the toilet bowl.

Black, Orange, or green rings in the toilet bowl is a sign of mold. It is a fungus colony on your toilet bowl. It is an indication that your toilet bowl needs urgent and hard cleaning.

Pink spots or rings on the toilet bowl is a proof of bacteria.

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If you are witnessing anyone or some of the above-mentioned color ring or stain in your toilet bowl, it doesn’t mean that you cannot clean the. You can surely.

Here are some materials and methods to get rid of toilet bowl rings.

Let us discuss.

Material required for cleaning toilet bowl ring:

 The materials required may differ slightly as per the method you choose to clean your toilet bowl.

Baking soda
Vinegar
Bleach
Borax
Hydrogen Peroxide
Dryer Sheet
A pumice stone,
Abrasive Sponge
Lemon Kool-aid,

Method-1: Baking soda and vinegar for cleaning a toilet bowl ring

Baking soda and vinegar are readily available cleaning items with you. And great thing is that these two cleaners can do wonders together to clean your toilet bowl ring.

1. Grab vinegar and pour a small amount into the toilet bowl. You can add around 250-300 ml of vinegar to the toilet bowl water and wait for 2-3 minutes. It will initiate the cleaning process. Use a toilet brush to mix it with toilet water.
2. After 2-3 minutes add around one cup of baking soda into the toilet bowl and add two more cups of vinegar (around 500 ml) into it. It will create foam in the bowl. Don’t worry. It is a natural reaction between two chemicals that helps to clean the toilet bowl.
3. You can swish the solution by using the toilet cleaning brush. But while doing the same, take due care. Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth or mask. It will help you to protect yourself from vapors coming out from the toilet bowl if any.
4. Lastly, flush it to clean the bowl. You will see the result. If required you can repeat the process.

Method-2: Borax and vinegar for cleaning a toilet bowl ring

If you failed to clean stains from the toilet by following the method described above, you use Borax and Vinegar to take care of stubborn stains.

1. Take 1/3 to ¼ cup of Borax and spread it inside the toilet bowl evenly. Using a toilet brush, swish it.
2. Add around 250-300 ml of vinegar to the toilet bowl. If you don’t have a measuring flask with you. Use a cup. One cup measures around 250 ml.
3. Again grab the toilet cleaning brush and swirl it to mix the solution evenly. Leave it for around 30 minutes.
4. Flush it using water to find your toilet bowl without any stains.

Method-3: Bleach for cleaning a toilet bowl ring

Bleach is useful to tackle bio-agents such as bacteria and mold in the toilet bowl rather than hard stains. Bleach is one of the best options to get rid of bacterial stains and mold colonies from bowl rings.

1. Take 150 ml (around a half cup) of bleach in pouring it into the toilet bowl.
2. Using a toilet brush, scrub the toilet bowl. Leave it for 10-15 minutes.
3. Flush it with water. While flushing you can rub the toilet bowl to achieve maximum cleaning. 

Just take a precaution while using the bleach. Do not use it in the toilet tank. Using bleach in the toilet tank can harm internal fixtures and fittings.

Method-4: Lemon Kool-aid for cleaning a toilet bowl ring

Lemon Kool-Aid is not only a nice readymade drink mix you can purchase from the store but also a good cleaning material you can use for toilet bowl cleaning.  

1. Open the Lemon Kool-Aid little package and scatter it on the inner side of the toilet bowl. All surfaces should be covered especially the toilet bowl ring.
2. Leave Lemon Kool-Aid as it is for 60 minutes. This time is required for Lemon Kool-Aid to clean the toilet bowl ring.
3. Finally, scrub the toilet using a toilet scrubbing brush.
4. Lastly, flush the toilet bowl cleanly.

Method-5: Hydrogen Peroxide for cleaning a toilet bowl ring

Hydrogen Peroxide is one of the most trusted cleaning materials in households as it is the best cleaner and quite safer at the same time.

1. Take approximately one tablespoon (15-20 ml) of Hydrogen Peroxide and pour it into the toilet bowl. While pouring Hydrogen Peroxide, you can specifically cover the toilet bowl ring and other stains. Hydrogen Peroxide is very reactive and hence it takes action against toilet bowl rings immediately.
2. Using a toilet cleaning brush, scrub the toilet bowl. Forcefully clean toilet bowl rings and other stains.
3. Flush out the toilet bowl using water.

Method-6: Use of Dryer Sheet Pumice Stone, OR Abrasive Sponge for cleaning a toilet bowl ring

These are pure mechanical methods of cleaning of toilet bowl ring by scrubbing it. In this method, you have to factually scrub out toilet bowl rings.

While using Dryer Sheet Pumice Stone, OR Abrasive Sponge for cleaning a toilet bowl ring you have to use rubber hand gloves as a precautionary method.

 Dry sheets can be used to clean toilet bowl rings. You can use old and used dryer sheets. After wearing rubber gloves, pick up a dry sheet and rub the toilet bowl rings until all the stains fade away.

Pumice Stone is a result of a mixture of lava and water. It has a peculiar ability and is hence used for removing dead skin. This scrubbing capacity of the pumice helps to rub out the toilet bowl ring.

Abrasive Sponge can be used with other household cleaning materials.  Just use an abrasive sponge to get rid of stains from the toilet bowl.   

Conclusion: How to clean a toilet bowl ring?

By using above mentioned six toilet bowl cleaning methods, you can defiantly get an answer to your question- How to clean a toilet bowl ring? Now you can keep your toilet bowl clean and shiny forever and it will not be a reason for shame when you will host your friends and family members at your place.