Why is there purple loo cleaner? WHO WOULD BUY PURPLE?

[Flamingoose]

I grabbed the wrong loo cleaner and now I have purple in my loo. It's not nearly as clean looking as blue. Or clear. Or I suppose green, at a push, though I don't love the magic tree smell.

Don't even get me started on yellow.

Last year I had a purple bottle of "Festive Spice" scented loo cleaner. My toilet did indeed feel festive as a result.

I told my DC that the blue in the toilet was teddy bear wee. Teddy bears can’t reach the flush.

They are quite old now. I hope they realise the truth. I wonder what pees purple, Unicorns?

Raven - Why wouldn't you leave some squirted round the bowl once cleaned ?
It not only makes the house smell lovely when you come home again, but it reminds the rest of your family that you clean the toilet.

I agree with the hatred of the red / pink - they had it in a shared house I stayed in a few weeks ago and I was most perturbed - thought people were leaving blood in the toilet before I used it each time.
Green is best, but purple does sound nice too.

I love purple bleach! I hope it takes the edge off the bleach smell lol.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2013/nov/18/looking-to-mauve-house

I'm sure these people would love it.

@Walkerbean16 that's a tad excessive.

Lol I can't get over someone at the guardian writing "looking to mauve house?"

Nothing wrong with a bit of purple in the loo. I'm getting some.

it's so that everyone knows I've Cleaned The Loo.

Our cleaner folds the toilet paper into a point. Maybe you could try that?

@penisbeakers very good I'm not showing my MIL that picture, she has two (yes, count them, TWO) different crochet toilet roll ladies in her bathroom. And they don't match. It's just not right.

I love the sound of a festive smelling toilet, mind you the way my DP smells sometimes I'll happily go with purple lavender...

I buy that one because I like the smell. It has never occured to me to pick loo cleaner by the colour. I choose buy the smell. I like the smell of the Wilkos blue one too.

I love lavender loo cleaner, because of the smell.

You'll probably all hate me, but I like the smell of Harpic 'tropical' because it's a slightly unusual scent in this country (it's the palette that's much more common in France, so evokes sense of place and good associations). It's pink

There's a tropical one?? I've never seen that, ooh I can imagine folks in my area not approving of that in the supermarket

Sorry, got the name wrong, it's orchid bloom.

Many loos smell festive year round - pine is after all just bottled Christmas tree. When I were a lass, it used to be used for loads more products than just loo cleaner. But somewhere along the one, it's been banished to the bogs

I don’t mind the colour so much as long as it doesn’t have that awful pine smell that makes you feel sick. I think I prefer no colour if I’m honest. Anyway, what really annoys me is when you’ve cleaned, squirted some around (why would you rinse it away?!) and then someone goes to the toilet within half an hour 😤

I love this one, seems to not be available most places though (Poundland and Wilko good bets). Great colour, and I clean with a lot of lavendery things so smell doesn’t clash.
Pine-type smells I unfortunately associate with vomit or extreme illness (too many years working in hospitals where generic cleaner used in great amounts after “incidents” or deep cleaning a side room is pine).
May have over shared there rather ... as you were!

And def agree with vanity second squirt of loo cleaner to demonstrate to rest of family that loo is NOT self-cleaning...

Goths need to clean their loos too.

Goldenbug

Oh dear.

Whoooah... that's some serious dedication to crochet, is that your bahroom @penisbeakers?

A toilet hat?

You can tell there are no ambulatory males in that house. Piss mats, ewwwww.

This thread is making me want to throw away my eco cleaners and rush out to buy purple toilet duck, bleach and zoflora 🙈

@VelociraptorRex no thank fuck. I'd never have such a Hyacinth Bucket-esque horror in me bathroom.