Learn how to clean a vinyl shower curtain with ingredients you have at home! Soap scum and mildew disappear, leaving your shower curtain looking like new!
It's that time of year again, isn't it? When you peek in and around your home and realize it needs a good deep cleaning after a long winter and cold. The windows are cloudy, dust bunnies have settled in the corners of every room, the carpet needs brightening up, the bathroom tiles look dull and you just need to clean up. "refresh". For weeks, okay maybe months, every morning I would stare at a grimy shower curtain liner covered in a ton of soap scum (starting to take on a weird pink hue).
I know it's disgusting. How could I let it go for so long? Trust me, I was looking for a replacement. My current shower curtain liner is kind of a cream color that blends perfectly with the rest of the decor my bathroom. All the liners I could find are too white and I just don't like them. So, instead of throwing the liner away, I washed it in my washing machine.
No scrubbing, no spraying...nothing more than tossing it in the washer with a few key ingredients. Today is your lucky day as I'm taking you to my laundry room to walk through the whole process with me. As always , every time I take my readers into the laundry room there is always a disclosure. Our laundry room has no windows - that means no natural light - which means unattractive and not so great photos. like when I showed you how to get hard water stains out of your toilet. You all seem to like watching me use my bare hands in the toilet, so it turns out the bad photos don't seem to phase you too much. ??
Alright, so go ahead, grab that dull shower curtain or vinyl liner and let's get started.
Ingredients
1 cup vinegar 1/2 cup liquid laundry detergent (I used Tide) 3-4 light colored towelsFirst things first. Start by filling your washing machine with warm water. You'll run the curtain through a regular warm water wash.
Add the cup of vinegar to the washing machine.
Pour in the 1/2 cup of laundry detergent.
Add the towels. I had four towels that needed to be washed anyway, so I used them. The towels sort of work like scrubbers during the agitate cycle to help wipe away soap scum and grime. Much easier than using your hands, isn't it?Right.??
Now make sure your shower curtain and towels are evenly distributed in the washer drum. Close the lid and wait for the cycle to finish!
When you're done washing, take your curtain and hang it outside to dry or just take it back to the bathroom and hang it in the shower and let it air dry.
I swung the curtain over the deck railing because it was a nice sunny day. In the summer, I also like to dry the quilts on our beds here. Growing up, we hung almost everything outside on a clothesline. Since I don't have a clothesline, this is the closest I get. It works like a charm!
Let me try to zoom in a bit for you so you can see the difference. Don't worry about the wrinkles. Once you hang up the curtain in the shower, the wrinkles will disappear over time. No big deal.
And as for our before and after...I would say it worked like a charm! Honestly, the curtain looks brand new.
So if you have a shower curtain or vinyl liner that looks a bit like mine, I promise you can restore it to its original condition. No scrubbing, no spraying - just throw it in. the washing machine with vinegar, laundry detergent and a few towels and you're done... like new again! I can't wait to hear the result of your curtain. Be sure to share in the comments!
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