How to Remove Hard Water Stains and Soap Scum from Glass Shower Doors

Just tried this out and, ho-ree-fook did it only work! For years I been forking out for Viakal at £3-5 a bottle and then this comes along!!?

How is 100ml of vinegar equal to 20% but then 5% of IPA is 50 ml? I would thing 5% would be 25 ml.

Didn't work AT ALL for me...🧐

This might clean light limescale and soapscum but has done nothing for my shower glass. Tried other of your mixtures and nothing takes it off. The shower has been squeeged and sprayed with simple greed on a regular basis so why what's on there won't come off makes no sense.

Thank you!

It only looks clean when it is wet..

thank you! this worked like a charm. my buildup was dark stains that i couldn't get rid of with cleaners on their own. it did take a couple tries and leaveing it on for 10+ mins but buildup was removed with a stiff brush with your solution. I'm glad I cleaned up with household ingredients!

edit: i reduced the water ratio and i think that helped with penetrating the tougher stains.

Your cleaning mixture has worked a treat! I did not know which components to use but after watching your video, mate you have made it so easy for us! I used a very fine steel wool lightly to clean first followed but wipe off with a paper towl.

Holy sheet! I just tried this and it worked really well! I’ve tried so many different store bought but cleaners with virtually no results. And now I try this dirt cheap method and it blows them out of the water 😂 I wish I’d found this video sooner. Thanks so much for the advice!

the cheapest dishwasher power you can find, one table spoon, 1l water mix until dissolved and it's the BEST glass cleaner in existence as it's designed to remove grease, much and grime.

can someone put this into ounces for me? I tried but it hardly makes any. Help

I used the formula for my bathroom screen, but it did not work for me. It is not like that the limescale development is too much either. Need to figure out another solution

Awesome thanks for sharing this with us,looks good

I completely dry off my shower glass, faucet, and tile off after I take a shower. No water stains and it's good exercise.

Awesome video, thanks...it works great! I admit that I was a bit stumped by the concentrations b/c it was little vague (at least for me) but based on @CleaningHowTo comments below, it appears that he used the following concentrations for the final solution: 5% vinegar and 70% IPA with a little dish soap. To make what you need, a good equation is Concentration1 x Volume1 = Concentration2 x Volume2 (aka C1V1=C2V2). I targeted a final solution that was basically around 4% vinegar and 3.5% IPA (my C2 values with V2 being 500ml) but one doesn't have to worry about exact final volumes/concentrations....it's not that critical. Basically for a 500ml solution, I used 400ml of 5% vinegar, 25ml of IPA and filled the rest w/ water (and 2 drops of dish water). You can make the volume that you want but he does a great job of citing his amounts for 100ml of total solution on his web site. Sorry, this was a bit wordy.

Use a 🍋

Brilliant. Thanks lad 👍

I hear rain-x is awesome for preventing the spots AFTER you have cleaned. :-)

Isopropyl alcohol and white vinegar are the ingredients, folks! 100mls of vinegar and 50mls of the alcohol. Add a little detergent. 🙏

This helped with the soap scum but the hard water stains are still there. How do I get rid of those?

This doesn't work, I tried the recipe with household vinegar, no results, i tried making it with 30% cleaning vinegar no results, then I just put straight 30% cleaning vinegar IT DID NOTHING!

This is good however after every shower is wiping enough

Doesn’t work! Any other ideas? 💡

I will try this thanks. One word of caution though. Cleaning vinegars can vary from 6% to 10% acetic acid. I used a 10% Cleaning vinegar and it ruined my grout in a short time.

The product that you gave a link to does not even say what strength it is. There are vinegars that are industrial strength as well. Regulations and laws vary by country, Depending on your country, most vinegars that are over 10% have regulations about who can sell it and use it, quite like garden herbicides and pesticides have.

It may be safer to add a caution to your information to not use any vinegar over 6 or 7%. Pickling vinegar is often 7%. Anything over that is cautioned or restricted for food use.

Barkeepers Friend powder cleanser works excellent. Wet door, rub powder on the areas, let sit for 10 minutes and rinse.

Works great, thank you

We have 9% vinegar strength plus other strengths. Rubbing alcohol also varying strengths. Can you please specify what strengths are you using in your solution?

Works really well. Just used it and found it works great on chrome shower fittings and aluminium trim as well.

IPA is Isopropyl Alcohol?

I like what you do, but your formula of 5% iso would only be 25 mils instead of 50. Guess it really doesn't matter that much???

I tried this and the build up along the bottom is still there. I repeated the process a couple of times but the glass still isn’t clear. Any suggestions on what to do next?

This is a fake video. you can see the edit to clean glass. wtf man?

Good grief! It works! I used surgical spirit instead of isopropyl alcohol. Cannot believe how many years I've spent and then suddenly find something that works with no damage to my neck for which I'm truly grateful.

Many thanks 🌻❤

What % concentration is the vinegar you are using? I am finding a range from 5% to 20%.

Most shower glass that looks like this is unfortunately too far gone to be fully cleaned. Tap water is sightly corrosive to glass so over time glass becomes etched on the surface. Once this happens there is no way to remove water stains as it is actually etched into the surface layer of the glass. At that point the only way to restore that glass is to polish the marks out with a cutting compound. The problem can be prevented using a neutralising agent after every shower and these are relatively common now often marketed as easy shower cleaners.

Tile with decades of soap scum can be cleaned with WD-40 and a brush.

Tried this on our shower screen now which has had 20 years of soap/calcium accumulation thanks to the previous owners. I can see some improvement but still has quite a coat of soap/calcium marking. I might need to give it another go and try using with fine steel wool instead of the magic eraser.

Can I use this recipe on non glass surfaces? I guess my shower compartment is made of some kind of acrylic material.

I tried this. Didn’t work and we have a water softener so the build up isn’t horrible and my husband used a Mr Clean Magic eraser. It removed some of it but didn’t quite remove it all

I've just tried this solution and it works brilliantly on my shower cubicle. Thank you for sharing this.

Can we also remove waterspots at our car windows using yr formula?

just use a mr clean bathroom eraser. removes every type of stain and scum without having to use anything besides water.

Not cheap though, if you add a magic eraser at about $1.25 per use, it is quite expensive, and you have to throw that used plastic eraser in the garbage, not great for the environment.

I was first introduced to vinegar as a cleaner back when cleaning glass in a kiosk. Just a bit of neat vinegar dropped on newspaper. The paper is mildly abrasive. No water used
Ive used it to clean mould from the walls of my 150 yr old house walls as well.
I use a water and vinegar spray to neutralise smells from my dogs on my concrete patio and ceramic tiles esp the grouting.

This works great! Now do you have an inexpensive water repellent (like Rain-X) we can make, for treating the glass after its squeaky clean?

Would it work with ethilic alcool instead of IPA?

I use a normal spray cleaner and a metal brillo pad

Wow this works wonderfully. I didn't have any rubbing alcohol, so I used hand sanistiser. Thank you