Finding the best bathroom products

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Finding the best products to clean your bathroom can be tough as it is so we put them to the test with 120 people surveyed.

Each person tested an average 44 items to produce the most comprehensive breakdown on which household cleaner scrubs up best.

Christopher Zinn from Choice said people have more bathrooms than they have ever had.

"We tested very well known Domestos, we tested bi-carbonated soda, we tested Orange spray cleaner, some foams, a number of different bathroom cleaners just to see how they stacked up," he said.

The testers filled out forms recording ease of use, how efficient it was getting rid of bathroom mould, how efficient it was getting rid of soap scum and also in terms of the fragrance.

The liquid bleaches and the chemical sprays had a higher ease of use score than the more natural products like bi-carbonate soda or orange based spray.

"Domestos won the best buy category of all of them, it came out significantly on top of the others in terms of getting rid of soap scum and also in terms of removing mould," Mr Zinn said.

"So people found it easy to use, the only downside was some people didn't like the fumes and the smell."

Bi-carbonated soda did not really rate as well as expected as a cleaner.

The Orange Power spray would market itself as the most natural in a market sense, but really our trial found that when it came to removing the mould and the soap scum it really was not nearly as easy to use as the harsher chemicals.

"What drives the bathroom cleaner either rightly or wrongly is the ease of use," Mr Zinn said.

"Prevention is always better than cure and when it comes to mould and mildew in bathrooms, it's actually better to ventilate the bathroom, switch the fan on, get the air moving and get rid of some of that moisture.

"That will control the mould much better than all the sprays and bleaches you could possibly put on."

Related info

For more information on consumer products, visit www.choice.com.au.