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Is your shower curtain — or the liner — so nasty you avoid touching it? Do guests fault the mold for polka dots? Then information technology'south time to give that bathroom staple a good bathroom.

Follow forth equally handyman Bob Vila shares tips for cleaning the shower curtain and liner. It's and so easy, you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.

How to wash a shower curtain and how to clean a shower mantle liner

  1. Remove the rings, then toss the mantle and the liner in the washing automobile along with a couple of white towels. The towels will provide extra scrubbing for better cleaning.
  2. Add the regular corporeality of detergent and ½ to 1 cup of baking soda.
  3. Wash in warm or hot water at the highest level.
  4. At the rinse wheel, add ½ to 1 cup of distilled white vinegar.
  5. Allow fabric curtains to run through the spin cycle, then hang to dry. There's no demand to put information technology in the dryer.

Notation: If the curtain is plastic, y'all don't have to run it through the spin bike either. It's ready to hang in the bathroom right subsequently information technology rinses.

To remove extra heavy mildew from a white or articulate shower curtain/liner, add together a cup of bleach to the wash h2o. For colored curtains/liners, effort OxiClean, Clorox 2 or some other bleach alternative instead.

Basically, every shower curtain is washable, only to be on the safe side, check the instructions on the care tag start.

Proactive tips:

  1. About bar soaps cause soap scum. Utilise body launder or a non-soap cleansing bar instead of bar lather.
  2. Make it role of your daily routine to spray the shower curtain and liner with a mixture of half water, half distilled white vinegar. To tame the vinegar smell, add a few drops of lemon oil to the mix. There's no need to rinse as it volition wash off the next fourth dimension yous shower.
  3. Once a week, spray the bottom of the pall and liner with the vinegar/water mixture then scrub with a brush. This volition remove any buildup you might have missed with daily spraying.

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This article was originally published on TODAY.com on Feb. 17, 2016.