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Please - Share with us your favorite toilet cleaning products or tricks that keep your 'throne' beautiful!

Actually just a tip from Biker Bob's Guide to Domestic Tranquility:

If you look at the toilet and think it needs cleaning, you're already late.

Biker Bob's Guide to Domestic Tranquility sounds like it might just make an entertaining read! LOL

I try to use all natural cleaners and (as Biker Bob recommends) try not to let the toilet get a ring before I go to work on it. Once when we came back from vacation, the bowl had a ring that nothing would eliminate and a co-worker told me to throw some denture cleaning tablets in and let them sit overnight. It did seem to reduce the ring and make it easier to scrub what remained away.

A friend of mine who has a house cleaning service says that some of the homes she cleans have such stains in the bowl that she uses a pumice stone on them. It seems to me that an abrasive scrub like that would damage the porcelain but she swears by it.

When I was looking for http://oooh-baby-baby.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-clean-toilet.htmlnatural toilet cleaners I got some tips here and some cautions for those of you who have dogs, cats or other pets inside the home that may drink out of the toilet.

I use the pumice stone. You have to keep it wet, but it works wonderfully. The stone is too soft to damage the porcelain.

Hello there,

Flush the loo a couple of times, scoop out the water then throw at least and two litre bottle of Coca Cola down into the bowl. Leave overnight. The tartaric acid in the coke will get rid of most lurgies and stains. It works. I have two public toilets to 'care' for and I used a coke a week in each and have fine white loo bowls and good results.

Cheers now

I like the cola idea. It would def dissolve any calcium rings.

I couldn't help but think that if Coca-Cola does such a great job on cleaning road film awful for windshields and calcium rings out of neglected toilets what must it be doing to our teeth and bones!

Oh definitely Coke is known to do all sorts of nasty things to teeth

To be fair, so do other acidic substances like orange juice