How to Clean Your Bathroom on a Budget and Without Harmful Chemicals

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By Joyce Mann
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before: cleaned with water and gentle soap

Cleaning your bathroom. Yuck. It's a chore no one admits to enjoying. The basic touch-ups -- bathroom sink, mirror, toilet, tub and floor need to be tackled at least once a week. So what can you do to keep the bathroom neat and tidy without spending a lot on bathroom cleaning products and without assaulting your lungs with toxic chemicals?

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

anti-bacterial liquid hand soap
terry-cloth rags and bathmat
re-usable sponge with one side slightly abrasive
soap and shampoo

Step 1

Clean your toilet with an anti-bacterial liquid soap, the kind used for washing your hands. Whoever said toilet bowls must be cleaned using chlorine, ammonia and hydrochloric acids, chemicals found in many commercial toilet-bowl cleaners? And is it carved in stone somewhere that a toilet is not clean unless its water is an unnatural shade of blue?

And consider this: No matter what you use to clean your toilet, it never stays "clean" for long. Sooner or later, someone needs to "go."
Step 2

Use the anti-bacterial soap to clean your tub and sink as well. A re-usable sponge with one side that's mildly abrasive is a good tool for this job.
Step 3

after: cleaned with harsh chemicals

Use a damp cloth and a rag to clean your bathroom mirror. You don't use your bathroom mirror as a serving platter, so is there any need to keep it as clean as dishes fresh from the dishwasher? Terry-cloth rags are great for this task. Just dampen one and use it to wipe off the soap scum that has landed on your mirror. Use a second rag to dry it.