The Best Way to Clean Your Shower & Tub (The Southern Way)

📖 Get Miss Loretta's Clean House Book, every mix for the whole house with the exact amounts, written down: https://misslorettacleans.com/yt/01 Look at your shower door with the light across it. That cloudy film you can drag a finger through but never wash off. The pink ring in the corner. The black along the caulk. A tub that never looks white no matter how long you kneel there. Sit down, baby, because I am going to tell you why every spray you ever bought let you down, and it was not your arm. That film is not dirt. Your water carries calcium and lime, and every time soap meets it they grab hold and dry on the glass, layer after layer. That is soap scum. The pink is not mold, it is bacteria that lives on soap and wet. And almost every spray in that aisle is soap. You have been fighting a mess made of soap with more soap. You cannot wash off a mineral, you have to dissolve it. THE SOUTHERN WAY: 1. CLEAR IT OUT. Every bottle and loofah into a basket, then rinse the whole shower down with warm water so your cleaner is not wasted on the easy mess. Fan on, gloves on 2. THE MIX: 1 cup white vinegar + 1 cup warm water + 1 teaspoon blue dish soap. Swirl it, do not shake it. The vinegar is a gentle acid and acid dissolves mineral. The dish soap cuts the body oil holding the film together. Warm the vinegar first, like bath water, never boiling — it works faster warm 3. SPRAY TOP TO BOTTOM, THEN WALK AWAY TEN MINUTES. This is the step everybody skips and it is why they fail. Mist it again if a spot starts to dry. Let it sit. The mix does the work, not your arm 4. SCRUB TOP TO BOTTOM, DRY TO WET, in sections, so the dirty water always runs over what you have not cleaned yet. Non-scratch sponge, run it under hot water first 5. THE BUMPY TUB BOTTOM: spray rolls off it, so make a paste — ½ cup baking soda, a squirt of dish soap, enough water to make it like frosting. Five minutes, then brush. Corners and caulk get the longest sit and an old toothbrush 6. RINSE, then DRY IT with two microfiber cloths. This is the step that decides whether you are back on your knees next month, because every film and every pink ring starts the same way: water left sitting SAFETY: bleach does not go with anything. Never bleach and vinegar, not in the bottle, not in the tub, not one after the other without rinsing. And no vinegar on natural stone. Keep a squeegee in that shower the way Grandmama kept a rag on a nail by the back door. Tell me in the comments what your shower looks like right now, and what state you are in, because hard water changes everything. I read every one.