How to Clean Mildew Out of a Porcelain Bathtub
- 1). Combine 1 cup bleach with 1 quart water in a bucket. With rubber gloves on your hands, swirl the solution around to mix. Bleach is a mildew killer that effectively removes even the tiniest of mildew spores from your porcelain bathtub.
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A sponge is gentle enough to clean porcelain effectively without scratching.sponge image by Leonid Nyshko from Fotolia.com
Soak a sponge in the diluted bleach solution, and wipe the solution over your entire porcelain bathtub surface. Allow the bleach solution to sit on the porcelain for a few minutes to ensure that mildew is killed. Wet the sponge with the bleach solution again and scrub the surface of your bathtub. - 3). Rinse the bleach solution from your porcelain bathtub.
- 4). Mix a homemade scouring solution of 1/2 cup baking soda and 1 cup white vinegar. The white vinegar will kill any remaining mildew spores, while the baking soda safely cleans and deodorizes your bathtub's surface. Scrub your bathtub with a sponge dipped in the cleanser, then rinse with plain water.
- 5). Towel-dry the surface of your porcelain bathtub. A dry surface is less prone to mildew than a wet surface.
