How to clean your showerhead and unclog your drains with denture tablets

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By Carol S
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clean your showerhead and unclog your drains with denture tablets

Did you know that denture tablets can be used to unclog a drain, clean a shower head, shine a diamond ring, clean a coffee maker and much more?
The tablets were designed to clean and disinfect dentures, and they'll do the same job around your house. They remove bacteria, mold and hard water stains.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Clean your shower head

Does the water in your shower come out slow? The source of the problem is often sediment that is clogging the tiny holes in the shower head.

Take two denture tablets, place in Baggie, tie to shower head, fill with water and walk away. Best done right before bed, it will be done in the morning.
Step 2

Clean your jewelry

Take two denture tablets, place in 1 cup of water and place your jewelry in. Let soak a few minutes and rinse.

The denture tablets will clean silver, gold and diamonds.
Step 3

Clean your toilet

Porcelain fixtures like toilets, bathtubs and sinks respond to the cleaning agent in denture tablets. Drop a denture tablet in the bowl. Wait about 20 minutes and flush. That's it!
Step 4

Unclog a drain

Drop two tablets into the drain and run the hot water for at least 2 minutes. For stubborn clogs repeat this process until clog is gone.
Step 5

Clean a coffeemaker

Hard water leaves mineral deposits in you coffeemaker that not only slows the brewing but also affects the taste of your coffee.

Drop two denture tablets into your coffeemaker and fill it with water. Run the coffeemaker. Rinse the coffeemaker by brewing two more pots of hot water dumping each one out as you go.
Step 6

** See more of my articles on uses for ordinary things in the resource section below.