The Cleaning Consultant

How To Remove Soap Scum

By Cleaning Consultant on October 21st, 2009

How many times have you looked at your shower or tub and thought, I need to learn how to remove soap scum. You’ve probably used all the home concotions like vinegar and water, a hydrogen peroxide mixture (this does have it’s uses in the home) and maybe even diluted bleach water. But the soap scum is still there, hanging onto your shower walls like a bad head ache.

So back to the question of how to remove soap scum. My suggestion is to forget all the home grown chemicals because for the most part, they won’t cut it when it comes to removing the soap scum. Your best bet is to use a commercial chemical that you can get at your local janitorial supplier.

It may go by several brand names but what you need is a shower foam.
This is a chemical designed specificaly to cut through the soap scum on your shower walls and tub to break it down for easier removal. This chemical is typically applied with a foam gun which is basicly a pump up sprayer with a specific nozzle that produces a foam when sprayed on a surface.

This foaming action causes the chemical to cling to the walls of your shower allowing it to do it’s magic.

This is not, however the end of how to remove soap scum. If you thought you could now just rinse it off, think again. You have to think of it in this manner. When you put your clothes in the washing machine you add water and detergent. But do you go straight to the rinse cycle? No, it has to go throught the washing cycle which is the agitation that actually removes the dirt.

The shower foam is simply the chemical to break down the soap scum but you still have to scrub. The good thing is you don’t have to scrub as hard or as much as you would with other home products. Once you have scrubbed the entire surface, then you rinse.

If anyone tries to tell you they have a product that all you do is spray it on and rinse it off and “presto” problem solved, then see if you can get them to sell you a piece of the Brooklyn bridge.

So there you have it, the answer to how to remove soap scum.

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   October 23, 2009 at 12:01 pm

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