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Cleaning the shower doesn't need to be a huge undertaking.
Which is why I’m writing about something extremely useful (albeit not terribly exciting) today – keeping your shower clean! I’ve written before about my own personal cleaning routine, which includes one day each week that I dedicate to bathrooms. After cleaning off the vanity, sink, mirrors and toilets, I generally peer inside the shower curtain to see how bad it is. I admit – if it looks pretty good, I call it good and check in on it again the following week. Cleaning the shower is such a pain in the a** that I used to put it off until it got pretty gross in there and then I would buck up and tackle it with some all-purpose cleaner and a scrub brush (all the while trying not to inhale too many of the fumes from that nasty cleaner).
But I’ve found a simpler way, readers! The answer is the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.
This product is GREAT for cleaning soap scum build-up from your tub and shower.
I’ve had a few of these under my sink for quite some time now, and admittedly never really found a great use for it. Most of my cleaning needs are covered by whatever all-purpose cleaner is on sale at the time I need to stock up. But I have found that this product does an absolutely fabulous job of cutting through grimy soap scum and build-up from shampoo, shaving cream and exfoliates. All you need to do is wet the sponge, squeeze out the excess water, and get to work scrubbing away! And it’s powerful enough that you don’t even really need to scrub – a few swipes cuts through most of the build-up that’s on our shower (and if you adopt the once-a-week cleaning schedule I blogged about – it will on yours too!).
Ways to keep that soap scum build-up to a minimum include three simple steps:
1. Keep bottles/soaps/loofahs and other items in the shower to a minimum. Keep only the things you use daily or weekly in the shower and nothing else. Under every bottle is a perfect breeding ground for mold, mildew and scum build-up. One tip? Instead of using shave gel, use conditioner instead. It’s one less bottle in the shower, and works just as well (for us ladies, anyway – I can’t really speak about shaving your face, men).
2. Spray some kind of “clean shower” solution on the walls and floor of your shower daily. Keep a bottle of Arm & Hammer Clean Shower Spray (or any similar product, really) in or near your bathtub/shower and apply after each use. It literally takes 3 seconds to do this after you dry yourself off, and prevents a build-up of soap scum from forming.
3. Use the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser once per week to wipe away any build-up scum. This takes about 2-3 minutes when done weekly.
Simple! Easy! Plain Good Sense!
