Please Recommend the Best Cleaner for Tiles and Grout!

[Anonymous]

I am having such a hard time keeping the master shower stall clean. The tile extends from the floor of the shower and covers the ceiling over the shower stall. I struggle with soap scum and mildew stains! What works for soap scum, doesn't seem to touch the mildew stains. Please recommend your tried and true cleaning product. Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Vinegar is great and non-toxic, too! Keep some in a spray bottle in your bathroom and just spray after every shower.

If the mildew gets a hold in the grout, I will spray it with some dilute bleach- but I only need to do that every other month or so.

Make sure you have a a good fan to pull the moist air out of your bathroom. Also, leaving your shower curtain about half open for a few hours after a shower also helps the tub or stall to get really dry in between uses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vinegar is great and non-toxic, too! Keep some in a spray bottle in your bathroom and just spray after every shower.

If the mildew gets a hold in the grout, I will spray it with some dilute bleach- but I only need to do that every other month or so.

Make sure you have a a good fan to pull the moist air out of your bathroom. Also, leaving your shower curtain about half open for a few hours after a shower also helps the tub or stall to get really dry in between uses.

To the 14:59 PP or others:

Do you need to rinse off the vinegar afterwards? Also, which type of vinegar?

I'm not the OP, but this is helpful to me.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

OP here, Thanks for the replies! And the reminder about using vinegar-I used to use it but I think my family complained about the odor. Here is the information I got from a mold website:

"Vinegar
Does Vinegar Kill Mold?

Vinegar is a mild acid which can kill 82% of mold species. However it also has the advantages of being natural and safe. Vinegar is non-toxic and doesn't give off dangerous fumes like bleach does.

Cleaning Mold with Vinegar

To kill mold with vinegar, use white distilled vinegar which you can buy cheaply from the supermarket.
Pour some vinegar into a spray bottle without watering it down.
Spray the vinegar onto the moldy surface and leave it to sit for an hour.
Wipe clean the area with water and allow the surface to dry. Any smell from the vinegar should clear within a few hours.


If you want to use vinegar to prevent mold growing on surfaces just spray vinegar on the surface and leave it. Repeat this every few days to ensure the surface will stay mold-free. You can even mop your tiled bathroom floor or other hard non-porous floors with vinegar if you are worried about mold growing on them. "

The website was blackmoldawards or something like that.

[Anonymous]

OP here again, when I had researched this topic in the past, there was also a site that recommended the following:

Spray the vinegar
Leave on overnight and then scrub/wipe off
Allow to dry
Apply hydrogen peroxide to help prevent the mold from coming back

I'm not sure if the hydrogen peroxide really helped, but I know the mold came right off after the vinegar was allowed to stay on it for a while.


When I initially wrote this topic, I guess I was hoping to hear about some miracle product that didn't involve so many steps!

Maybe none exists?

[Anonymous]

Try oxi-clean. I used a very strong concentration of oxi-clean and water recently on my bathroom floors and it did wonders. Would probably do the same on the bathtub/shower itself. I did really have to get in there and scrub, though, because this was old grout that hadn't been thoroughly cleaned in a while. But once you did it once, the upkeep probably wouldn't be that hard.