Do you bleach your bath?

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After reading on another thread about people using (or in this case not using) bleach when cleaning their baths I was shocked to hear that I'm in the minority of people who do this.
Do you use bleach to clean your baths?

Christ. We are all going to environmental hell in a hand cart... (cleaned with bleach, obvs)

Amazed at the amount of "I thought everybody did" posts. No, we don't, because you don't really need to...

When people say they bleach the bathroom what do you actually mean?

A couple of drops in a bowl of water and wipe everything with it?

Or neat?

Use bleach through out my bathroomsi just don't feel like the germs are gone without it.

I bleach the toilet once a week and maybe use it on grout which has got black mildew, but no I wouldn't bleach a bath unless it was a really drastic incident.

Even then I'd probably just use regular disinfectant or Zoflora rather than bleach.

I mostly clean my bathroom with a generic surface cleaner and limescale remover.

I assume that if a house smells of bleach that it was properly filthy at some point and needed desperate measures before my visit; that normal cleaning wasn't enough. I do regularly buy bleach; up to once a decade.

I use Method bathroom cleaner as it smells gorgeous. My bath is white and shiny.

I would only use bleach if the baby poos in the bath or if i have been rinsing off soiled sheets or clothes. The smell of bleach really makes me feel ill, I've always hated it.

Zoflora is no good at all for actually cleaning grime, it does not cut through grease or limescale.

Putting chlorine bleach down the loo or round the bath (as long as you don’t have a septic tank) isn’t actually a big environmental problem because it’s a simple, very chemically active molecule which decomposes very quickly indeed once it hits water. There are environmental problems with its manufacture, prolonged inhalation of the fumes isn’t good for you, and accidentally destroying your best T shirt and replacing it isn’t very green, but you’re not poisoning the fishes with it.

One day people will study us and shake their heads sadly at peoples utter obsession with germs.

I bleached mine today after DS poo'd in the bat. That is the second time I have ever done it, both for the same reason.

Bleach for the toilets only. There is no need to use bleach for anything else. For general cleaning I use stardrops and hot water. In fact I use stardrops for pretty much everything

I use cillit bang bleach & hygiene spray for everything. Purely because anything else seems to leave a slightly greasy residue, but this stuff doesn't. If it's not available I get Sainsbury's kitchen cleaner with bleach which is almost as good. Use them on everything (although separate bottles for kitchen & bathroom). But I'm lazy and probably only give the bathroom a clean every 6 weeks or so / if the bath is visibly scuzzy. The rest of the time I just give the bath a good wipe around with an old flannel (that then goes straight in the washing machine) and hose it off with the shower

I use a watered down vinegar and soap concoction that I make up to do the bath.
It takes off the limescale with a little scrubbing then wash again with soapy water.
I have bleached it a couple of times when the kids have pooped in it though.

Er no. I scrub it with whatever shampoo is nearby (I don't use shampoo so I need to use it up somehow)
If it's very bad then a bathroom spray or all purpose cleaner. Bleach for the edging if it gets black mould
I have virtually no immune system, and I'm a slattern according to most of these threads. But I never get d and v

I use bath cleaner with no bleach in

Er no. I scrub it with whatever shampoo is nearby

Yes! (airpunch!) I am not alone! I figured out years ago that most household cleaners are pretty much the same but with different smells and fancy labels. 95% of all shit removal is actually done by scrubbing / rubbing / scraping the stuff. I clean most things with whatever shampoos comes to hand - usually Tesco's dead cheap own brand budget stuff. (Most shampoos are all basically the same as well, just some have extra weed extracts and expensive bullshit advertising.)

Shampoo works down toilets too! And if you use Head and Shoulders your bog will never get dandruff!

I use flash bathroom or cif cream, and viakal on the taps and shower bits and bobs.

I only really use bleach on the kitchen floor every now and again, I used to use it down the toilet but i use toilet cleaner instead now.

Method spray for general bathroom cleaning, Viakal liquid or spray occasionally (hard water area) and some bleach on an old toothbrush about twice a year to tackle the tiles and grout.

I did use some bleach on the bath a couple of weeks ago after I tipped away a bowl of water that had been soaking some paint palettes and found it had dyed some non slip strips on the base of the bath an unnerving shade of purple. The bathroom and whole house reeked of bleach all day - glad it was summer so I could open all the windows!

I use bathroom spray with bleach on my bath & probably once a month fill the bath with hot water, washing up liquid & bleach to clean the non slip mat & my bath stool that I use due to disability, stops the black gunge building up on the suckers.

That's exactly what I thought @lazylinguist - germophobic. Cleaning with normal bathroom cleaner is enough. We dont need to sanitise everything, we're not eating our dinner off the bath are we! Plus, bleach wouldn't remove any limescale. So if I did use bleach, my bath would be germ free and ready for the next operation but would be encrusted with limescale.

Thesandman I use whatever’s to hand in the shower to clean the tiles. Like you said it’s the scrubbing and hot water that removes dirt and bacteria. Same in the kitchen. I ditched anti-bac spray for a normal household cleaner, barkeepers friend for stains and a good scrub. Nobody has been ill in years.

This thread reminded me of flushing tampons in the toilet threads, where to my shock a crowd of posters still come and say I always flush tampons, I thought everyone did??
Though hopefully it's going to be more and more rare, with environmental awareness etc growing. I definitely never met anyone under 25 (I asked DD and all her friends specifically out of interest) to whom it would even occur to flush tampons down the toilet (though they must exist if their mums still do and taught them to). Hopefully bleach will be eventually a rare product used for cleaning in emergencies and not commonplace...

learn.compactappliance.com/cleaning-with-bleach/

Dr Chris van Tulleken in the Times on air pollution and its effects on health:

Ditch the detergent
I loathe health fascism and crazed celebrity wellbeing sites, which often fail to give the simplest, most effective advice. You really don’t need all those supermarket-bought, bleach- and chlorine-laden cleaning products. Not only are they nasty to inhale, you often end up using an unwashed, bug-ridden cloth with them anyway. Wiping and scrubbing with a microfibre cloth and plain water will, in most cases, do the job fine, though you can’t go wrong with lemon, vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. You simply need things to be visibly clean, as living in a sterile environment isn’t generally good for you. That toilet-bowl cleaner can go, too — unless you plan to eat out of your loo, a good scrub with a long brush should suffice. As for antibacterial hand gels and wipes, regular soap will do the job just as well — and do make sure you wash your hands before you eat.

I never use sprays.
am asthmatic and sprays are really really bad for the airways.