AIBU to expect air freshener in toilets when visiting friends?

[HangryBrickShark]

Is there an expectation that people's toilets should have an air freshener in? Like a spray air freshener?

We always have air freshener in both our toilets in case friends or family get caught short when visiting us or even to freshen the bathroom after having a wee if necessary, so I hate it if I go to a friend/family members house and they have none.

I get some people may be affected by asthma but surely if you had asthma you wouldn't use it?

We have a glade air freshener at work that sprays into the space where the wash handbasins are for example.

Nice to have, but would not expect it. Being able to open a window is better.

I rarely need to poo that bad I can’t wait for an hour or 2 if I’m at someone’s house. How embarrassing and gross to have to do a smelly shit when a dinner guest.

Urgh; spraying unnecessary chemicals around is awful. Open a window and take your own VIPoo spray.

Yes if I have t go I just go, toilets are designed for it

I have an air freshener in my toilet but no spray, if anyone poos in there we bleach the toilet, wash our hands and generally the smell of a bit of bleach and hand soap clears the smell- i have no windows in my toilets.

Why would u need freshner after a wee?

I don't mind the smell of air freshener but a lot of people don't like it and some are allergic to it, so, no, I wouldn't expect to see it in other people's toilets.

I wouldn't normally pick things up like air freshener in someone else's loo and start using them, save the obvious soap and towel for washing hands.

Worst nightmare on holiday 😔

I've never bought a spray air freshener in my forty-three years and I'm not going to start now. Open the window.

Some peoples poo doesn’t smell. It hits the water quick and is flushed away.

You couldn’t tell that I have done a poo there is no after smell unless I’m ill with the runs or something.

There are some people who leave clouds of poo smell in the toilet but it’s normally men or women with bowel issues.

Also not every family leaves skid marks going down the toilet. I also have no toilet brush and there doesn’t seem to be marks.

Trust Mumsnetters to have perfect poos

Air freshener is frightfully common/non-U so you won't find much support for it on Mumsnet! I don't know anyone who has it in their home. Open the window, make sure the extractor fan works, and in extremis, light a match.

Shit plus noxious air freshener results in a terrible, noisome pong. I know this from growing up with a dad who’d have a long a stinky dump, then liberally spray the downstairs loo with Glade or the like.

I have never bought a spray air freshener in my life.

Same but some people have conditions so can’t help it. Not having a window in a bathroom is disgusting.

Air fresheners, scented candles, diffusers are essentially chemicals. It’s thought they can interfere with your hormones and cause health issues. Once I read that it even made me question perfume. And I honestly wish I hadn’t read it, because I bloody love a scented candle.

Never! I don’t have shy bowels, I have incredibly polite ones. Unless you have bowel issues, and I feel incredibly sorry for anyone who does, there’s just no need.

Yabu. Some people don't like the chemicals in the air. Their toilet their choice.

OP would hate my house! No air freshener, no reed diffusers, no bowls of pot pourri, no scented candles - nothing that will affect my breathing or give my husband a migraine. We have managed almost 40 years of marriage without having any of the above in our home. Never needed it despite having raised children and had cats who became very elderly!

I do not know what is in them but they are a migraine trigger for me

our toilet has a large window which w open to freshen the air

that way you get actual fresh air 😁😁😁

Men clean toilets? Dates and times please🤣

No, just open the window and close the door

I'd be hoping they'd remove the revolting toxic chemical "air fresheners". Air destroyers more like.

I don't use spray air fresheners simply because we have a cat, and some can be toxic. The plugin ones can be even more toxic for animals.

My son insisted I buy a toilet brush when we moved house. I'd always just put bleach down. My then husband said that wasn't cleaning the loo, just covering the poo.

I also have asthma and pets so wouldn't have any sprays. I did try the coloured tablets in the cistern but it's too much faff to take the lid off and I wouldn't bother again. I used diffusers as my bathroom is tiny and I wanted the house to smell nice but they are finished and the hose smells fine now. For those saying they just use bleach and when it's mentioned as for health and environmental reasons, isn't bleach as bad?