Rubber gloves for cleaning bathroom

[domesticgodmess]

Hello, I figure that if you're on the housekeeping topic you know more about cleaning than I do, but I'm on a mission to get my house in order.

I always have pink rubber gloves for cleaning the loo and then yellow ones for the rest of the bathroom, but discovered the pink ones don't fit DH so he's been using the same gloves for cleaning the whole bathroom.
He says if we're using chemicals for cleaning then the gloves will be clean enough. Is he right?
Don't laugh, I've just always done what my parents did but maybe I can use just one pair.

I don’t use two pairs.

I use the same rubber gloves. I wash my hands with the gloves on when I've finished a cleaning job.

I don’t always use rubber gloves. No one died. Yet

I'm by no means an expert, but I'd have thought as you're not eating or preparing food in the bathroom it's ok. I wouldn't use the same pair of gloves to clean the bathroom and toilet then the counters in the kitchen/dining table. I would always use a different sponge for the toilet and washbasin. If you prefer a different coloured pair for the loo, you could pick up a pair of the black heavy duty rubber gloves as these tend to come in larger sizes.

This reminds me of a lovely anecdote in Alan Bennett's autobiography. One of the women in his family was in hospital, so the man of the household had been doing the cleaning. When the poorly woman recovered and came home, she was horrified that her husband had used the wrong buckets for various jobs. "He used the red bucket - I mean, that's the outside bucket! Eeeee, men! They make work!" .... which is very funny (well, I think so), but I couldn't tell which person he thought was right. Did he think it was funny because he was with his female family member and he could feel her pain, or did he think it was funny because he thought it was proper daft to have different buckets for different jobs?

(In answer to the actual question, I use the same gloves .... but a different cloth and - the horror - one of those long plastic items with bristles that is The Thing That Must Not Be Named on MN.)

I keep a cloth and pair of gloves (as kitchen washing up gloves start looking tired they get relegated to the bathroom) by the toilet that I use to clean the inside of the toilet and under the seat, then I keep a different pair of gloves and cloth by the sink that I use for cleaning everything else in the bathroom (including the toilet flush and seat).

I do often think there must be a better system out there so I’m interested to read this thread.

Waitrose essential skin care gloves that are blue are robust and are quite generous in size.

I don't use any gloves at all, just wash my hands when I've finished cleaning.

Thanks all, I might try that washing my hands with the gloves on. I've just been conditoned to change to the 'toilet gloves', my system is similar to @INeedNewShoes but I will try another way if you will?

@Time40 I have one of those bristly things too!
@FridalovesDiego love the name, do you and @NannyR not get dry hands? I thought the chemicals would be pretty harsh.

@Stefoscope definitely not preparing food in there! One of my first flatmates came looking for the sponge when I was cleaning the bathroom, she wanted to wash some saucepans and had squirted Jif cream cleaner in them.

I thought the chemicals would be pretty harsh. To be honest, I don't really use much in the way of chemicals cleaning my bathroom, a bit of cream cleaner, hot soapy water and a squirt of bleach in the loo - my bathroom is probably teeming with bacteria but it looks clean and I don't get ill from using it so I'm not too worried!