Would it be absolutely disgusting to...

[meladeso]

Put loo brushes in the dishwasher on their own, on hot setting, followed by a hot wash on empty??!!!

Raw chicken (which may or may not contain salmonella) is a bit different from excrement surely? .

I'm not precious about housekeeping but I can't believe what I'm reading here.

YADefinitelyNBU. What a thoroughly disgusting idea!

Please no! just use the same one and bleach it in boiling water when necessary in its own bucket. No need to throw out!

That's disgusting. We all know dishwashers still have particles of food stuff after a wash in thr machine. The thought of it being particles of shit really turns my stomach.

Boiling water and bleach and clean them, or buy new ones.

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You don't need to chuck them out or stick them in your dishwasher (weirdest suggestion I've ever heard on mumsnet.) Just put strng bleach and boiling water in the brush container for a few hours.
I've had the same loo brushes for years. They are clean and white and don't smell.

"There was an experiment once where people were asked to lick chocolate sauce off of a brand new loo brush that they had watched being unwrapped from the packaging in front of them. Most could not do it and many were gagging."

It's not that weird really, the association between loo brushes, toilets and faeces is really strong.

Put a load of bleach in the toilet and stick the brush in and leave overnight. Give it a good scrub around in the loo in the morning and then continue to scrub while you flush the toilet to rinse it off. Job done. Clean brush and toilet!

IKEA do black loo brushes.
White ones end up looking gross however much you clean them

meladeso
how would you clean it if you did not have a DW ?
I can not stand the smell of bleach , so once I have cleaned the loo i put a TINY amount of Jeyes Fluid in the bowl and boiling water and stick the brush in that . Clean loo and brush .

Can't believe I've read this! Yes hugely disgusting. As PP suggested put them in a bucket of bleach and hot water.

Couldn't you sterilise them in a bucket with Milton?

BruceAndNosh,
we have black ones at work , no matter how hard you try they always seem to have bits of tissue stuck to them they are horrid .

Has anyone seen the wood and natural bristle ones recently ? before plastic brushes were around I think everyone had wooden ones didnt they ?

This is a fucking grim read on a tuesday morning

Loo brushes are gross at the best of times I just use bleach for any marks left leave for a while come back and its all gone

Fill the holder with bleach water and leave it soaking for a while.

Why do you need loo brushes to be that clean, I keep mine clean by swilling it in the flush and drenching it in cleaning product.
I wouldn’t put a loo brush in my dishwasher.

And people in here wonder why some of us won’t have a toilet brush in the house.

We keep ours fr years.
I can't believe people so easily dispose of plastic crap like that. Well, because they don't see where ot all goes of course. Terrible.
A planet full of rubbish. Awful.
I pour toilet cleaner in toilet. Wash the toilet with the brush, flush. Then rinse the toilet brush again in the clean water. Zero cases of stomach issues here.
There are more germs on a kitchen than in a toilet btw

Grim enough to have loo brushes in your carsies

But to put them in a the DW

Ugh

Is it any worse than washing a mooncup in the dishwasher?

A few people have mentioned bleach and boiling hot water, I was taught that bleach is more effective in cold water?

I have never cleaned my toilet brush as a stand-alone job.

Loo cleaning for me is:

Get rid of as much water as possible from the bowl

Loo cleaner under rim and down the sides, into the little pool of water at the bottom.

Stick loo brush in little pool of water/cleaner and leave for a bit

Come back and brush all round toilet then flush, which rinses toilet and brush.

My brush has black bristles, was about £2 from Ikea and I’ve had it 4 years. Still going strong.

I wouldn’t put it in the dishwasher because I don’t consider (a) that that would make it any cleaner, or (b) that i want to mix my eating and shitting equipment

Loo brushes are gross at the best of times I just use bleach for any marks left leave for a while come back and its all gone

Thank God someone talking a bit of sense, toilet brushes are disgusting. Why are people keeping shit sticks next to their toilet!

Ffs that’s gross.

Also why would you throw them away?

Do what planespotting says, why would anyone do any different?

However @FamilyOfAliens, am interested in what you do, how do you manage without one?

Nooooooo! Don't do it. Throw it away and buy a new loo brush.

@PhilomenaButterfly yes because you can't compare the bacteria. You don't get E coli in a mooncup for example, if you do get it, a fair amount of it then you can get a UTI
Hence the front to back wiping
Completely different. And you will wash it first.
I wouldn't do it as you just boil it for 10 minutes, but I am not buying into periods being "dirty"