How would you know, Boazy? Isn't cleaning toilets women's work under God's great plan for male/female complementarity?

Pray tell, when did Boazy last clean the family toilet?

Serendipity. We had a family discussion about toilet cleaning last night but the product under scrutiny was Coca Cola. Apparently does a brilliant job and is commonly used by commercial cleaners. Lovely.
We never resolved the question of its impact on the environment, but it would probably fall somewhere between vinegar and bleach.

A plumber friend recently warned us that those blocks you stick in the cistern perish the rubber fittings.

One proposal that emerged from discussions was that if men learned to sit and pee there'd be less mess to clean up in the first place, which turned out to be a controversial suggestion.

"I'll note all those things now :) and add them to my 'survivalist' to-do list :) *grin*"
Heheheh CJ, he didn't say 'when'.

But yes, BD I just love the smell of eucalyptus, just add a few drops when you (yeah, YOU) mop the kitchen floor or clean the benches.
Tape it and we'll watcha on YouTube :))
Nah, no pressure here, but honestly, cleaning with natural products is much less of a chore, only because the smell is so nice and it feels good, too, to know that you are not contributing to the pollution of our precious water.

In fact, I love essential oils and use them every day, also in my face cream and body lotion.

Oops, we were talking about toilets...

Ah, Chainsmoker I bet the toilet would be really sparkling clean if you poured a bottle of coke in the bowl and then tossed some mentos in:)
Run, run!

Celivia

My European grandmother was much the same as yours and used natural ingredients in her home. She refused to use chemicals and she lived to well in her 90s (maybe for other reasons too - she used to drink chammomile tea and do something with nettles as well). :)

It is a shame that these old remedies are seen as new fangled 'green' products when really they have been around a long time and it took a while to trust these non-chemical agents but now it is the norm. I could not quite believe that unless I 'nuked' the toilet with chemicals it would not be really clean.

One whiff of Domestos or Exit Mould is enough to convince me now. :)

Celivia

I have this mental image of a bubbling loo I can't get out of my head - too funny.

We have been duped into buying stuff we didn't really need and would hurt the environment.

Medicos believe that the increasing incidence of asthma is due to children never really developing proper immunity to their environment. My little cousins run wild in natural bushland, drink only tank-water and are as healthy as kids have every right to be.

BTW Men with a good aim don't need to sit down, but please don't shake, use toilet paper, please, please, please.

PS

I have to try out the coca-cola though - hate cleaning the toilet.

I put greenlivingtips in favorites. The cleaning chemicals seem to be more simple than the usual ones in the shops. I checked that what they call baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, sodi bic to my mother which is not baking powder. She used baking powder in cakes, sifted into plain flower. That was before self-raising flour was available. Baking powder had sodi bic and cream of tartar--Potassium hydrogen tartrate (google). My old tin says sodi bic and phosphate aerator. Sodi bic went into soda bread. But we have to remember that a lot of sodium goes down the waterways--sodium bicarbonate, washing soda-- sodium hydroxide, bleach-- sodium hyperchlorite, soap--oil and caustic soda--sodium hydroxide, salt (as cleaner), sodium chloride . Add to this is what goes through us into the toilet--salt, soda drinks etc. We need to make sure that our waste water is highly refined and separated back into useful constituents,or reused, or treated by passing through to soil and plants so that microbes can work their complex chemistry to restore it to a clean state. Conceptually we should think from toilet/sink to sewage farm, ie "beyond the gully trap".