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Any toilet chemical I bought in the store couldn’t deliver the promised result the way I needed. Now I don’t buy chemicals, but use a homemade toilet cleaner.
Limescale
The gel would always just slide along the walls and the fragrances weren’t what the ad promised – we’d flush several times and they were completely gone. My friend advised me to try a great homemade idea for a few coins.
All you need is a hanging ornament that you can certainly find somewhere at home, and some ordinary ingredients.
After 10 minutes everything is ready, just transfer into the holder and hang – no limescale, a fragrant and clean toilet. There are three of us at home, sometimes four, a dose lasts us 3-4 weeks.
You will need
- Hanging toilet freshener (one into which you can repeatedly put gel cleaner)
- 100 ml of water
- 25 to 30 ml of liquid soap,
- 1 teaspoon of cornstarch
- 6 teaspoons of citric acid
- A few drops of essential oil (ideally antibacterial tea tree oil, which fights mold and viruses) or a few drops of scented oil, depending on which scent you like.
Process
This will yield approximately 4-5 doses and one lasts 3-4 weeks.
One dose costs less than 5 crowns.
Prepare a container and put into it the water, citric acid and starch, which we previously mixed separately in a small amount of cold water – otherwise it might not dissolve well.
Stir thoroughly and heat. Heat and stir until the liquid becomes a gel-like consistency.
When the mixture reaches the desired gel consistency, remove it from the heat and add coloring (if desired), 5 drops of tea tree oil and the fragrance we love.
Dosage
I always mix the solution with liquid soap in the holder – you can have the product in one part and the soap in the other, or you can mix them.
Sometimes I don’t add soap at all – it’s up to you how you decide. Now hang the holder on the bowl and store the remainder in a plastic bottle. For a few crowns you have the perfect homemade helper.
