Everybody knows how important it is to keep the bathroom clean, but there are certain areas of this room that are more overlooked than others.
And the shower head is a prime example, at least in my bathroom anyway.
I didn’t think I lived in a hard water area, but after taking a good look at this specific part of my bathroom, I was proved extremely wrong.
The limescale build-up looked disgusting, as it covered a large part of the shower head with a white chalky substance that I couldn’t believe I ignored for all this time.
I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t gave it a proper clean since moving into my flat almost three years ago – so that stops now, I thought.
I remembered seeing a hack circulating on TikTok not long ago that involved using nothing but some white vinegar and a sandwich bag to clean your shower head for those that can’t be unscrewed.
It seemed almost too easy – all you need to do is fill the bag with the wonder product, useful for cleaning so many different areas of the home, and secure it around your shower head so that it’s completely submerged.
Then, after simply leaving it for a few hours, the white vinegar should have dissolved any lingering limescale, dirt or mould without the need for any scrubbing.
The no-scrubbing element was what really drew me in, since my shower head is quite high up and hard to reach – and I didn’t fancy my chances of balancing on the edge of the bath and trying to scrub the limescale one-handed while clinging to the wall for dear life with the other.
So I headed to Asda and picked up a bottle of distilled vinegar – the only option they had in store was the £1.09 bottle, but I’ve spotted a 35p version at Tesco.
It was then just a case of carefully pouring enough in to submerge the shower head and securing it in place with a hair bobble, and leaving for a couple of hours.
Looking in horror at the state of my shower head before, I really didn’t think this was going to work without having to go back in and scrub it afterwards.
But the TikTok cleaning pros tend to be very right about these kinds of things, so I left it to marinate for around four hours whilst I went about my day.
Occasionally I’d go back in to check the bag hadn’t exploded and spilled everywhere – something I was certain would happen, since the hair bobble I had wasn’t the biggest and I struggled to get it to stretch around twice.
But after the time was up and I removed the bag from the shower head, I was totally blown away at what awaited me.
The vinegar in the bag had taken on a slightly cloudy appearance, albeit not as bad as I was expecting.
But the shower head itself looked as though it was brand new. All the limescale had completely disappeared, and I barely even had to lift a finger.
I let the shower run for a couple of minutes to make sure the vinegar had completely drained out of it, and that was that. This trick genuinely worked wonders, so if like me you’ve put off cleaning your shower head for too long, then you’ve got to give this a try.
