The bathroom is going to be a place where you have germs, and the following tips will help you deal with those germs:
- Wash bathmats and floor rugs often. These often get overlooked. They are however, a big germ carrier if not cleaned. Hair, sweat, saliva, and splatter from the toilet all get on the bathmats and rugs, so stick them in the wash on the hot cycle once a week or so.
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| Wash bathmats and floor rugs often |
- Wash the toilet weekly. Our toilet can be full of germs, so make sure you wash it weekly, and not just the inside of the bowl, but the outside, the seat, the lid, and the handle. You touch these things, and they could be spreading germs, so make sure you sanitize and disinfect them each week.
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| Wash the toilet weekly |
- Use a hand vacuum on the floor daily, and mop weekly. Hair often collects on bathroom floors, and can carry small particles of skin, et cetera, which carry germs. If you just sweep you will miss some, and getting it wet makes it harder to clean, so take a powerful hand held vacuum through your bathroom once a day to help reduce the hair buildup.
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| hand vacuum |
- Clean your shower; it is not clean just because water hits it daily. People use the shower to get clean, but they also blow their noses, and other unsanitary things in the shower. Your shower is not just clean because you showered in it, you need to disinfect it, at least twice a month, but it is best to do it more often.
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| shower |
- Scrub your sink. A sink is a great place for germs to grow, so make sure that you clean it with a cleanser and hot water weekly.
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| Scrub your sink |
- Clean faucets, handles, knobs, and the doorknob. Your toilet and sinks all have the obvious places to clean, the place you spit into or eliminate into, but what about the other places you touch in the bathroom? What about the doorknobs, towel racks, faucets, and so on? Clean those as well!
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| faucets, handles, knobs, and the doorknob |
- Run the fan during and after your shower. Moisture helps bacteria grow, mold and mildew grow, and germs spread. So, make sure you do what you can to cut back on the moisture. Start by cleaning the bathroom fan out so that it can suck the moisture out, and then make sure you run it before, during, and after your shower.
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| fan bathroom |
- Close the toilet before flushing it. This will help keep splatter from happening, and germs from spreading through the little water droplets that often accompany a flush.
- Clean your trashcan. Don't just empty it, make sure nothing leaked, or dirtied the outside, and if it did, clean it well.
- Change your towels out. Towels can get really gross, and can be big germ spreaders if you do not change them regularly, not just your shower towels, but your hand towels as well.
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