| When you think about it, toilets are pretty gross. | | | | combination when you consider every time you flush |
| Public toilets can be used up to 100 times a day, that | | | | your toilet your breathing them in. |
| means 100 people are using them. It is said that | | | | There are many things you can do to avoid the |
| whenever a toilet is flushed it releases over 5000 | | | | nasty black ring on your toilet. The first is to use a |
| bacteria into the air. So, when you walk into a public | | | | low acid cleaner to kill the bacteria. The second is to |
| restroom that is well frequented, there can be up to | | | | get your self a really good toilet bowl brush or toilet |
| half a million bacteria or virus particles in the air. | | | | bowl mop to scrub that acid around in the toilet and |
| Those bacteria can land on handles, sinks, faucets | | | | remove those ugly stains. |
| and even the paper towels that you use to wipe | | | | Bowl brushes come in many styles but most are |
| your hands after you have washed them. You can | | | | made from a material called polypropylene. |
| use all the antimicrobial soap in the world but it won't | | | | Polypropylene won't mold and can stand up to heat |
| do you any good if your smearing those dirty germs, | | | | and chemicals. Polypropylene strands are abrasive and |
| bacteria and viruses onto your hands after you have | | | | can do a great job at removing the nasty toilet ring. |
| used the soap. If you walk into a public restroom and | | | | The two main styles of toilet bowl cleaning utensils |
| it doesn't look clean my advice is to walk straight out. | | | | are bowl mops and toilet bowl brushes. A toilet bowl |
| If it looks dirty to your eyes imagine how it would | | | | brush resembles a brush and has a wide stiff |
| look under a microscope. One of the dirtiest places in | | | | polypropylene bristle. Brushes tend to last a lot longer |
| a bathroom is the toilet but a toilet can be kept clean | | | | that toilet bowl mops because the bristle is larger and |
| very easily with regular maintenance. If you want to | | | | does not break away from the bowl brush handle. |
| try an experiment don't clean your toilet for 4 weeks | | | | Bowl mops are meant to be discarded after |
| and see what happens. Slowly right above the | | | | repeated use and are considered by most to be a |
| waterline a black or brownish ring will form. If you let | | | | disposable toilet cleaning product. Most kinds have a |
| your toilet go a little longer before cleaning, that black | | | | ball of polypropylene strands massed at one end to |
| ring will slowly start to climb in vertical lines toward | | | | form a light duty scouring surface. Over time the |
| the toilet rim (by the way, that ring is about 6 inches | | | | strands tend to break off and the mop should be |
| from your behind whenever you sit down on your | | | | discarded. Bowl mops are usually a quarter of the |
| toilet). What is that black ring? The nasty black ring is | | | | price of toilet bowl brushes and most are have a |
| bacteria and micro fecal buildup. A pretty nasty | | | | plastic handle. |