The Secret of Your Toilet Cleaning

The stains that you see at the bottom of a toilet are usually limescale, or calcium carbonate to use the scientific name. Limescale arrives as a result of water travelling through specific rocks, such as chalk and limestone, on the way to reservoirs and then to our water filtration systems. Annoyingly, despite the UK having some of the highest water quality in the world, removing minerals such a calcium carbonate is really difficult. This limescale deposit is no risk to health, although it will fur up your kettle and eventually damage your dishwasher and washing machine if you don’t take preventive action.

“Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.”
— Carla Hall

In the bathroom, limescale shows up as a white powdery film that appears on taps and shower heads, as white droplets on mirrors and tiles, and greyish or greenish stains under taps in the bath. But when you get orange, pink or brown staining, as you often do in toilets, it’s because the calcium carbonate is mixed with iron or manganese compounds

There is a prevailing myth that bleach is going to remove limescale. It won’t. What it does do, and this is why the myth developed, is bleach the limescale so that it’s less noticeable. Unfortunately this can lead us to think that the limescale has been eradicated, and so we keep using the bleach and the limescale keeps building up, invisibly. Bleach is a fabulous toilet cleaner, but for germs,

So, having established that the staining may not be as yucky as you were thinking, it still needs to be dealt with. And we have everything you need to clean your toilet and keep it clean better and for longer