Green Ways to Remove Hard Water Stains

Posted on 13/04/2023

How to Remove Hard Water Stains Naturally?

Aren’t hard water stains just the worst? You have excellent floors, faucets, shower doors, and so on, and at one point they become pretty bleak and spotty and ugly looking because of the hard water stains that accumulate on them. The reason for that is because those stains come from the hard water which contains minerals and lime, and they mix to create horrible visuals that plague mostly your bathroom, and parts of your kitchen. So how do you deal with the pesky deposits? A special type of cleaner? Of course not, why add chemicals to the minerals – there are pretty good green ways of dealing with that problem. Here are several ways of tackling that problem:

General Solutions
•    The All Purpose Cleaner: This is the simplest solution to most stains during any house cleaning. Take a spray bottle, fill it up with three parts water, one part white vinegar and shake furiously. Then you just take a wipe, a cloth, or whatever wiping tool you want, spray the problematic areas, wait a bit for the acidic properties of the vinegar to start working, and then wipe away at the stains. Clean surfaces one by one and your problems will be solved quickly.

•    The Lemon Juice Solution: Instead of using vinegar with the water, you can add a bit more lemon juice. You might already know this, but lemon juice also contains acidic properties because of its citric acid ingredients and it also eats through the minerals. It is also a wonderful disinfectant, and, as a bonus, you get fresh-smelling surfaces as well.

•    The Lemon and Vinegar Solution: Surprisingly, you can even use a simple lemon! Why yes, take a lemon, slice it in half and you can literally rub the lemon over faucets, for example, to eat through the nasty stains, and then let them rest a bit. Then soak a towel in a bit of vinegar and wrap it around the faucets. Come back in a few minutes, take the towel off, and rinse the faucets to reveal a gleaming surface.

Local Solutions
And, of course, some areas of your bathroom might require separate solutions. You can focus on them in several ways:

•    Faucets: Already covered. Lemon and vinegar is the best way to go.

•    Shower doors: They look horrible with the lime, the mineral deposits and the soap scum all over them, don’t they? Well, practice some cleaning with – are you ready for this? – white wine. Why yes, it is also another method of keeping the home clean and it can be used to clean hard water stains.

•    Toilet bowl: Can you believe that a can of soda works on stains as well? Well, don’t try that on your carpet, but it works wonders on the toilet bowl. Use a whole can and splash it over the surface of the bowl, then leave it for an hour, then flush. Simple as that.

•    Showerhead: This one is embarrassingly simple to take care of – soak in vinegar. Yes, take a bowl of vinegar, soak the head, leave it there, come back after a while, scrub it, rinse it, and it is done and ready to be put back and used.

And this is how you go about working on your home cleaning with green methods. Hard water stains are annoying, but they are not a problem when you know how to take care of them. Those mineral deposits are merely a visual flaw that can be corrected with one eco-friendly home cleaner and a cloth.