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Ideal_Rock
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I can't tell if the reformulation of my favorite Scrub Free tub cleaner sucks, or if it's my new tub that's weird. The tub is acrylic or something, not porcelain, but it didn't work on the porcelain tile either come to think of it.
The only version of Scrub Free I could find (it says it has "Oxyclean" or whatever in it now) just... didn't do anything whatsoever, it was like cleaning with nothing but water. I seriously ended up scrubbing the tub out with Dawn dishwashing soap after trying Scrub Free five times and doing nothing more than smearing the soap scum a tiny bit if I pushed reaaaalllly hard. I was not happy.
I have a special loathing for tub scrubbing: it was my most hated chore growing up, and my mom only ever had that cruddy powdered cheap cleaner- Comet?- and it was a majorly labor intensive process with that stuff. After I moved out at 18, I gleefully splurged on the "expensive, forbidden" Scrub Free and reveled in it's soap scum melting super power.
But now it let me down!
What is the deal? Is there something else out there that melts soap scum as well, and will make me happy and keep me from having to spend an hour scrubbing at the dang tub?
I suppose it could be that I (or my husband!) was extra specially nasty grubby this week and made the tub all grody with my dirt, and the cleaner was innocent of wrongdoing, but I don't think that's it somehow... I'm thinking it's the tub, or the cleaner that's up to no good.
ETA: Oh and the new formulation also smells like cat pee mixed with rotten oranges. (I swear it wasn't the cat pee in the corner!) It's never smelled like awesome but this version really did reeeeeek. I can put up with reekiness if it works, of course, but it was just like a joke this time- "haha, we will make your whole room smell of rotten pee oranges and you will keep spraying MORE because it doesn't do ANYTHING."
The only version of Scrub Free I could find (it says it has "Oxyclean" or whatever in it now) just... didn't do anything whatsoever, it was like cleaning with nothing but water. I seriously ended up scrubbing the tub out with Dawn dishwashing soap after trying Scrub Free five times and doing nothing more than smearing the soap scum a tiny bit if I pushed reaaaalllly hard. I was not happy.
I have a special loathing for tub scrubbing: it was my most hated chore growing up, and my mom only ever had that cruddy powdered cheap cleaner- Comet?- and it was a majorly labor intensive process with that stuff. After I moved out at 18, I gleefully splurged on the "expensive, forbidden" Scrub Free and reveled in it's soap scum melting super power.
I suppose it could be that I (or my husband!) was extra specially nasty grubby this week and made the tub all grody with my dirt, and the cleaner was innocent of wrongdoing, but I don't think that's it somehow... I'm thinking it's the tub, or the cleaner that's up to no good.
ETA: Oh and the new formulation also smells like cat pee mixed with rotten oranges. (I swear it wasn't the cat pee in the corner!) It's never smelled like awesome but this version really did reeeeeek. I can put up with reekiness if it works, of course, but it was just like a joke this time- "haha, we will make your whole room smell of rotten pee oranges and you will keep spraying MORE because it doesn't do ANYTHING."