How to Clean Porcelain Sinks without Bleach
on Jan 06, 2025
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Want a shiny sink? Think you can’t have a shiny sink since you have a porcelain sink? I use to have a porcelain sink before we built our Passive-Aggressive home. When it was clean it had a rich luster and was simply beautiful. It would often become stained and I’d have to scrub it clean. I loved the durability of that old porcelain sink and I’m here to share how I kept my porcelain sink shiny and beautiful without toxic chemicals like bleach.
How to Clean Porcelain Sinks without Bleach
I happen to have a really DIRTY sink all the time. We cook, clean and feed ourselves around this sink so it is well used and easily stained. I wish I could tell you that I got it that dirty on purpose, so I could write this blog post for you…Alas, that would be a lie! ๐ It just got that dirty…
I don’t have bleach in my house and that is the conventional way to remove stains. I would still like a shiny sink from time to time.
Wet Your Porcelain Sink
If you haven’t cleaned your sink out now is the time to do so. You’ll also want to remove the sink strainers, any bottles, pads or trays you have sitting on and around it. Give your sink a rinse with warm water.
Baking Soda and a Scrub Brush
Grab your baking soda and a scrub brush. Make sure you have a soft scrub brush so it doesn’t scratch up the porcelain. Shake the baking soda all over the sink and the faucet and start scrubbing. You may need to rinse and repeat a few times.
If you have deep seated stains make a paste with the baking soda and lemon juice and let it set to lift the stain.
I have my Porcelain Shiny Sink!
It’s a sparkly clean, beautiful sink that the Fly Lady would be proud of.
I am especially thrilled because it required minimal effort and baking soda is non-toxic! My house doesn’t stink and I have a clean sink using natural (and cheap) products.
After cleaning my sink for a while with Baking Soda, I have learned that cleaning my porcelain sink is even easier and yields a better result with Borax!
Wow, you did good. Now can you come by and do my laundry room sink?
And also, major kudos to you! Did you see that your page now has over 15,000 views!!! Yay! You are my favorite blogger!
One more thing I wanted to say, I also very much enjoy the comments. You have a lot of thoughtful and interesting commenters.
Woot! It looks lovely! Don't ya love easy? BTW, I think I have the same sink as you! LOL.
Awww…thanks, Larae, but you're on your own for your laundry room sink…! ๐
Sara, no offense, but I HATE that sink. Too shallow, too small, gets dirty way toooooo easily! ๐ But the price was right – my remodeler hubby re-used it from a kitchen he remodeled a couple years ago. As soon as he gets the trim and crown molding finished in our house, I am blogging about the transformation!
And yes, I LOVE easy!
Sara,
What a life and sink saver!!!! I did the baking soda and I now have a brand new sink. Thanks so very much.
I didn’t think of borax as a green product, but since you presented it as an alternative to bleach I’ve checked and it appeared we use it a lot in our household. Thanks for the great article.
Thanks for the Borax tip. That’s my next step. The very intermittent housecleaning woman came today and cleaned my sink. I think she smuggled in some Ajax or Comet. Ewww.
Oh good luck!! ๐