Clean yellowed toilet seat: With four home remedies, it becomes nice and white again
Created: 12/20/2022, 2:54 p.m
By: Andrea Stettner
Older toilet seats in particular tend to have yellowish discolorations.
Is it actually urine?
And how to clean the unsavory stains?
Cleaning the toilet is certainly not on most people's list of favorite activities.
Nevertheless, the toilet should be cleaned regularly for hygienic reasons.
With yellowed toilet seats, this can become a real challenge.
How do you get rid of the yellow spots?
Toilet seats yellow from time to time.
With the right home remedies, they will be sparkling clean again.
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Yellow discoloration on the toilet seat - is that urine?
As unappetizing as it sounds, yellow stains on the underside of the toilet seat are actually urine residue.
Unfortunately, you can no longer do anything with normal cleaning agents: the yellowish ammonia it contains reacts with the increasing pH value of the dried urine and literally eats into the plastic.
Yellowing on the top of the seat, on the other hand, is mostly caused by UV light.
The latter mainly affects toilet seats made of polyresin.
You forget these spots all the time when cleaning
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Instructions: How to clean the yellow stains on the toilet seat
In order to remove the yellowish discoloration in the deeper layers of the material, special cleaning agents are needed, which fortunately can usually be found in the household:
Oven spray: A real miracle cure for yellowing!
Once sprayed on, the spray sticks to the material and quickly pulls the residue out of the material.
After just 10 to 15 minutes the toilet seat should be bright white again.
Then remove with a damp sponge.
Dishwasher tabs: Cleaning with an ordinary dishwasher tab is a bit more cumbersome, but no less effective.
However, to do this you need to soak the toilet seat.
So: unscrew and place in a large tub with warm tab solution.
After a few hours of exposure, the toilet seat should shine again in new splendor.
Incidentally, drainpipes and other stubborn dirt can also be cleaned with dishwashing wands.
Denture cleaners: The sodium percarbonate contained in denture cleaners acts like bleach.
Dissolved in water, the tablets are therefore often used as home remedies to remove discoloration of all kinds.
Denture cleaners can also be used wonderfully as a home remedy for stubborn urine scale.
Dirt erasers: They act like erasers and remove yellowing mechanically.
It's definitely worth a try and easy to use.
Dirt erasers are available in drugstores and also do an excellent job of removing stains on walls or shoes.
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You should also clean and replace the toilet brush more often than you think.
Once a year is not enough!
