Review #199: Tilex Soap Scum remover and SoftScrub
For some reason the first thing I did when I woke up (ok ONE of the first things I did) for the last two days was clean my bathtub. In addition to not wanting to see the scum anymore, it might have been because I wanted to break my usual monotonous workday routine of rolling out of bed, trying to clear my head of the beer-cloud, and stumbling off to work. At least I did something productive instead of, say, heroin.
I knew that the build-up was going to be too much for any one product, but I can’t help but be pulled in by the claims on the label. I tried Tilex first, which says “Dissolves bathroom grime with thick foam!” Dissolves? That’s perfect, it does all the work for me! And it sounds like something that would be accomplished by a thick foam. But alas it was no match for the layers upon layers of dirt and grime. Sure it pulled some of it up but not much, and it left streaks of dirt where the foam hadn’t run down the side of the tub. The bottle also says that there’s no need for scrubbing, so I’ll be damned if I’m going to.
I needed something else, so yesterday I picked up SoftScrub. The bottle said to rub gently, but of course I had to rub roughly. Despite the inclusion of actual elbow grease the product still did a great job. The grey gunk was visibly leaving the surface of the bathtub. The sad part about it was the area that I had to cover. The scum was crawling all the way up the shower walls. Once I got tired of that I did the sink, too.
Now my tub is relativley clean. It worked a lot better than when I tried to clean the tub in my old place. I plan on maintaining the cleaness, and if I do it again in a couple of days it may be even cleaner, so I’ll only have to use the foam stuff like once a week or something. I want my tub to be clean because sometimes I think “I might like to take a bath,” then I look in the tub and think “No, no I wouldn’t.”