What do you use to clean your tub?

[CarenSwan]

I'm having a hard time keeping up with the scum now that I've ditched my old reliable Comet! Help!

[SageR]

Oxygen bleach - I just make a paste, scrub all over, then let it sit for 20 minutes! You can also try baking soda made into a paste with pure castile soap. With both methods you must rinse very well.

I have used Bio Kleen Bac Out with success but it is $$.

[Spastica]

I use the above too (baking soda and OxiClean). I also make a spray with the OxiClean with hot water (don't fill it all the way to the top or else the bottle will burst) and I wear gloves. I spray all the tile, fixtures, and curtains.

I also have a cheap, square-headed broom, that I use to scrub the entire tub and walls. It's a large garden tub and I would kill my back each time I cleaned, so I use the broom to do most of the work. I take a plastic pitcher (the kind for cleaning) and rinse the walls and tub with hot water after I'm done.

[RiverSky]

Just baking soda, mostly, with a scrubby sponge and/or a hard plastic bristle brush. Sometimes I spray with vinegar at the end or mix a bit of Dr. Bronners with baking soda for a fragrant cleansing paste and use that. It works well for our textured plastic showers and tubes, which have little nooks and crannyies perfect for catching build-up. I imagine it would work perfectly for porcelain.

[clavicula]

vinegar with tea tree oil.

[~MoonGypsy~]

I use just baking soda with a magic eraser type sponge.

[philomom]

Just baking soda and a half of a lemon to scrub with. Leaves a nice scent and takes away the ring.

[Spastica]

Just a note - use diluted acids (like vinegar) on any grout. Undiluted vinegar or acids eat grout. It makes them nice and clean, but it eats it and weakens it. The grout eventually dissolves away or it flakes off in chunks. Mostly diluted solutions are okay. Or you can just use OxiClean (or similar oxygen bleach products).

[Indigo73]

Scouring Powder
1 cup Baking Soda
1 cup Borax
1 cup Regular Salt

Combine all 3 ingredients and keep them in a tightly closed container. (Get really hard fast)

Bath & Kitchen Scrub Cleaner
1 cup Baking Soda
1 cup Liquid Castile Soap (you probably won't use it all)
15 drops Lemon essential oil (my preference, I know folks who use others)
Add enough of the liquid soap to the baking soda to make a paste (think thick paste), and then stir in the drops of essential oils. Mix all ingredients well and store in a glass covered jar.

[Llyra]

I mostly use vinegar and water. If there's a soap scum buildup that needs scouring, though, I might use baking soda with a tiny bit of warm water instead. I find that using Dr. Bronner's to wash with rather than other soaps or body bars results in less soap scum to begin with, though.

[oats'nhoney]

i think the trick is to avoid using "bar" soaps which create the most scum build-up. it is hard to do though because my DH prefers bar soap though.

i like vinegar, BS & a squirt of bronner's TTO soap, elbow grease with a scrubby sponge & a boiled water rinse.

[CarrieMF]

borax. It is the only thing that cleans it other than comet.

[turtle81]

I have a magical baking soda shaker and a spray bottle with vinegar, so I shake on the baking soda, spray with the vinegar until it fizzes, leave it for a bit, then a little scrub and a rinse, and it's clean. My tub is an old claw foot tub, and it makes it looks pretty darn sparkly!

[oneotamama]

First I spritz it w/a vinegar and tea tree oil mix. Then I sprinkle on some baking soda. I let it sit for awhile and then scrub and rinse. Works well for me and our well water turns everything a nasty orange color.

[Lynnseedoil]

Another baking soda and vinegar user here. I also sometimes use Simple Green.

[3_opihi]

I use Simple Green and if it's reallly bad then I use a magic eraser...

I wonder if you could use a pumice stone on a porceline tub? Or would that scratch it? That's what I use on my toilet.

[Spastica]

Pumice stone is not good for any kind of household scouring on most surfaces, especially on porcelain and any glaze finishes. Sure it gets the muck off, but what you don't see are fine scratches on your surface. This etching attracts MORE muck and dirt and you have to scrub harder and harder each time to get the muck and dinginess off.

[melissa17s]

I use bon ami.

[rootzdawta]

Originally Posted by melissa17s

I use bon ami.

Me too. Bon Ami and Sal's Suds for the tub itself. I spray the walls with a solution of Sal's Suds and water or I use heavily diluted Simple Green.