HACK: How to clean toilet stains using bicarbonate of soda
Updated | By Poelano Malema
This hack will leave your toilet looking spotless and sparkling clean...

Hygiene is very important. You can become ill from being exposed to microorganisms in a filthy environment.
The toilet is one of the places that can harbour a lot of germs.
If you want a hack to remove the stains in your toilet and don't have any cleaning detergents, look no further.
We found a cool hack that will leave your toilet looking spotless. It requires things that are most probably already in your kitchen cupboards - vinegar and bicarbonate of soda.
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Method:
- Pour two cups of vinegar directly onto the stains in your toilet and move it around with a scrub brush.
- Allow it to sit for an hour
- After an hour, sprinkle one cup of bicarbonate of soda onto the stain.
- Pour another cup of vinegar over the bicarbonate of soda.
- Allow it to sit for 15 minutes.
- Clean with a toilet brush and scrub away stains. (Tip: If stains are hard, let the solution sit for another 15–30 minutes before scrubbing).
- Flush the toilet to rinse away the solution.
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Image courtesy of iStock/ @ThamKC
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