For all curtains and strategies:

• Bleach: Use this to create a 1:1 bleach and water answer for spot cleansing, in addition to for common cleansing. If your curtains are colourful, use a stain remover, comparable to OxiClean.
• Spray bottle: Use a sprig bottle to carry your 1:1 bleach and water answer.

For washing cloth bathe curtains:

• Laundry detergent: You can use no matter you’ve gotten available to wash your garments.
• Baking soda: Use this for scrubbing.
• A plastic tub or bucket: If washing by hand, this have to be giant sufficient to carry the curtain, coated with water. (You may also use your bathtub, however the course of shall be extra manageable with a standalone bucket.)
• Rubber gloves: You’ll need gloves to guard your pores and skin.

For washing plastic liners:

• Liquid dish cleaning soap: Use this to scrub or disinfect the liner.
• An abrasive dish sponge: These sponges work effectively.
• Baking soda: Use this for scrubbing.
• A small bucket or squeezable biking water bottle: This will assist with rinsing.
• Rubber gloves: You’ll need gloves to guard your pores and skin.
• Clean rag or tub towel: Use this to wipe the liner dry, to stop exhausting water marks after re-hanging. If you’re utilizing a washer, you’ll additionally throw this within the drum with the liner to assist with scrubbing and balancing the load. (Make positive it’s one you don’t thoughts getting bleached, in the event you plan to make use of it.)

It can take wherever from 20 to 35 minutes to wash your bathe curtain or liner by hand, with 15 to 25 of these minutes as downtime when you look ahead to cleansing merchandise to do their work.

If you’re utilizing a washer, you’ll want the size of a wash cycle, plus about 10 minutes of passive downtime whereas cleansing merchandise do their work.

If you’re cleansing by hand

With the curtain nonetheless connected to the rod, spray any areas with seen mildew spots or pink mould utilizing a 1:1 answer of bleach and water. Let it sit for 10 to fifteen minutes.

Then take away the curtain and place it in a bathtub or bucket giant sufficient to carry the curtain. Add 1 tablespoon of liquid detergent. Fill the bathtub with sufficient heat water to largely submerge the curtain. Massage the curtain whereas sporting gloves to encourage suds, focusing additional effort on these visibly soiled areas, just like the hem. If the bathe curtain is very soiled, add a further tablespoon of bleach and gently combine. Let it soak for about 10 minutes.

Using gloves, examine for remaining stains. If stains stay, spray them with bleach answer, after which sprinkle a teaspoon of baking soda and rub the stain vigorously.

To rinse, drain the bathtub, protecting the curtain inside. Re-submerge the curtain with water, and swish it round to launch suds. Drain and repeat till the water runs clear. You can pace this course of alongside through the use of a detachable bathe head to spray the curtain immediately whereas rinsing.

Rehang the curtain, and unfold it out on the rod to air-dry. Optionally, you’ll be able to run a fan to dry it sooner and to discourage mould regrowth.

Cleaning cloth bathe curtains within the washer

With the curtain nonetheless connected to the rod, spray any areas which have seen mildew spots or pink mould with a 1:1 answer of bleach and water. Leave it for 10 minutes.

Remove the bathe curtain and place it in your washer. Add laundry detergent for the smallest load—often lower than 1 tablespoon—and, optionally, 1 tablespoon of bleach, based on your washer’s instructions. Run the machine as a standard cycle, utilizing chilly or heat water (heat water will support disinfection).

Rehang the curtain to air-dry. Because of the spin cycle, it’s not essential to run the dryer, and air-drying will delay the lifetime of your curtain.

If you’re cleansing by hand

With the curtain nonetheless connected to the rod, spray any areas of the curtain which have seen mildew spots or pink mould, utilizing a 1:1 answer of bleach and water. Let it sit for 10 to fifteen minutes.

Wearing gloves, sprinkle an abrasive sponge with 1 teaspoon of baking soda, after which drizzle evenly with liquid dish cleaning soap. With the curtain nonetheless connected, use the sponge to wash soiled areas (with one hand on the other aspect of the curtain to offer a secure floor). Wring out the sponge, and wipe down different areas on the liner that want it.

Rinse the bathe curtain. Use a bathtub or bucket to softly splash the within of the bathe curtain with water. If you’ve gotten a squeezable biking water bottle or a removable bathe head, you should utilize it to rinse the curtain and reduce mess. If extra suds stay, or in the event you scrubbed down the skin, take away the curtain from the rod and gently splash it with water within the (clear) bathe basin till it’s suds-free.

Rehang the curtain on the rod, and wipe it down on either side with a dry towel to keep away from exhausting water marks.

Cleaning plastic liners within the washer

With the curtain nonetheless connected to the rod, spray any areas of the curtain which have seen mildew spots or pink mould with a 1:1 answer of bleach and water. Leave it for 10 to fifteen minutes.

Remove the bathe curtain, and place it in your washer, sprinkling it with 1 to 2 tablespoons of baking soda immediately contained in the drum of your washer. Throw in an previous towel that you simply gained’t thoughts getting bleached. This will assist stability out the load and passively scrub the curtain.

Add laundry detergent for the smallest load—often lower than 1 tablespoon—and, optionally, 1 tablespoon of bleach, based on your washer’s instructions. Run the machine on a slow-spin or delicate cycle with chilly water. Hot water could trigger plastic to soften or discolor.

Rehang the curtain to air dry, wiping it down with a clear towel to stop water marks.

Note that this methodology could barely wrinkle the liner—though, in our expertise, not more than it already is!

You might imagine that utilizing a ton of product—like soaking your curtain in a tubful of bleach—will work higher (and extra rapidly) than utilizing a more-moderate quantity. But being heavy-handed with bleach, cleaning soap, or detergent will solely make rinsing take longer and should depart a residue. Usually, one of the simplest ways to ratchet up the cleansing energy of any given methodology is to extend the period of time you allow a product on the curtain or liner. And utilizing an extreme quantity of product can also be dangerous to your lungs and aquatic ecosystems.

Never combine bleach with rubbing alcohol, vinegar, ammonia, or something acidic (comparable to lime scale or rust removers). Doing this could produce extremely harmful and even lethal gases which are poisonous if inhaled or absorbed by means of the pores and skin.