7 Tips On How to Get Rid of Hard Water Stains. Make Your Life Easier Using These Tricks.

by Curtis Grossi | Last Updated: March 13, 2024

Hard water causes problems for everyone. They can make stains and leave residue on tile, mirrors, faucets, showers, and even clothing. These stains are caused by the buildup of minerals absorbed in your water.

Also, the minerals stay behind once the water evaporates, causing the stains and residue on mirrors, soap scum on tubs and showers, faucets, clothing, etc.

Here are 7 ways to help you deal with the hard water stains:

1. An Every Day Kind of Cleaner

Distilled white vinegar can be your best friend when it comes to cleaning. One way this cleaner can help is by making a batch of 1 part vinegar and 1 part water in a spray bottle.

You spray the mixture on whatever surface that has the stains like the shower, tub, tile, or porcelain, let it sit there for a few minutes, and wipe away.

This works great on cleaning windows and mirrors! If you don’t want to have a vinegar scent, you can add a couple drops of essential oil.

2. A Deeper Cleaning

Not only can vinegar be you best friend, but baking soda can be too! Now you can mix both together!

• You will want to mix baking soda and vinegar together until you make it into a paste.
• Once that is done, you will want to put it on the stained surface for about 15 minutes.
• Then, scrub and rinse.
• Make sure that you wipe it dry immediately so the water you just rinsed with won’t settle on the surface that is now cleaned.

3. Lemon Juice

That’s it! Put lemon juice in a spray bottle, spray it on the area, and let it sit for 10 or so minutes. Rinse and make sure, like with tip number 2, you wipe it immediately after.

Lemon juice works similar to vinegar with the acidity. This is more for tough water stains like around faucets since it’s a more potent concentration than the previous mixtures.

4. Clothing

There are 2 ways you can deal with hard water stains on clothing:

1. You can soak the clothes in a solution of 1 cup of vinegar in a gallon of water for 30 minutes. Make sure to rinse thoroughly. Then you can wash your clothes like you normally do.
2. Put vinegar in the detergent slot, or directly in the washer depending on the kind of washer you have, and have it run on the rinse cycle. Then wash your clothes normally.

5. For a Deep Toilet Clean

Sometimes, your toilet can take a toll with the hard water just sitting in there in between uses. So here’s a way to help deal with that challenge.

You can make a mixture of vinegar and baking soda, or you can use a mixture of vinegar and Borax. This reaction break up the trouble, and, then, you can use a toilet brush to scrub away.

6. Shower-heads

Sometimes, it feels like you are losing water pressure when taking a shower. The cause can be your ​shower-head. With the times in between showers, the water that sits in there will dry up and cause those mineral deposits.

This, over time, causes blockage in your showerhead and feels like less water pressure. A way to combat this? Soak it.

You can either take the showerhead off and soak it in a solution of vinegar and water and scrub it clean, or you put the solution in a bag and use a rubber band to attach to the showerhead to soak if you don’t want to take the showerhead off.

7. Solving the Cause of the Problem

You can do all the previous tips mentioned, but they won’t solve the cause of the problem. A good water softener can make all the difference and solve the problem.

A water softener gets rid of those minerals before they reach you and what you use it in. Makes cleaning everything else much easier, too. You wouldn’t need to use the other tips nearly as often, or at all, if you had a water softener.

Hope these tips help!

Curtis is the founder and owner of softeningwater.com. He is the lead guy concerning all the water-softening accessories in this site's guides and reviews. If he is not writing a reviews, guides or any other useful tips, you will find him testing them to find out their suitability. He is passionate about softening water. You will find him extremely helpful and always willing to educate the general populace all there is concerning water and its effects on their health and appliances.