2007
i was only reading a pamphlet
maura @ 8:36 pm
Wait, I was supposed to share my spazzy feelings about method shower spray, right? Right! Okay, so about 4 1/2 yrs ago we embraced our inner stinky hippies and joined the Food Coop. Soon after that I started to think that it was probably a bad thing that the awful toxic fumes from our bathroom cleaner made me want to pass out, and that maybe a clean bathroom wasn’t worth killing brain cells.
So I never cleaned the bathroom again. The end.
Just kidding! Of course I cleaned the bathroom again! A clean bathroom is a wonderful thing!
Anyway, while I love the eco-friendly lavender-scented nontoxic bathroom cleaner we get at the Food Coop, the truth is that it doesn’t really bleach away all grubbiness from the tub + tile. Probably because there is no bleach in it! Hence the nontoxicity.
The real problem is our grout. See, a few years ago it became clear that the shower tile needed regrouting. I’m a little handy around the house (just a bit). I enjoy caulking. And the interwebs told me that grouting was really not that much more complex than caulking. DIY, here I come!
Except that grouting is really NOT like caulking. Not even at all. It is much much much harder, messier, more time intensive, and did I mention more difficult? And the grout, how it is not at all neat, nor easy to scrub off the tiles? The end result was that I wasted 5 hrs of a Saturday with my mom watching Gus while I did a shitty job of regrouting our tile.
So the grout is too low, and it’s hard to clean. Like scrubbing-each-individual-grout-line-with-a-toothbrush hard. I love to clean, but nobody loves to scrub grout with a toothbrush, it’s like a prison punishment or something. Grim.
I’d been wishing for a nontoxic spray-on bathroom cleaner for a while, but they don’t sell any at the Food Coop and I am usually too lazy to go anywhere else because I hate shopping. Then a few months ago we were at a big box store and walked by a display of method shower spray.
I snapped it right up, though I was immediately suspicious of its pleasing, eye-catching bottle and label design. Nothing eco is designed this well! Also, the ingredients include water and some other known stuff, as well as surfectant. What is this surfectant, exactly, and how do we know it is eco? But there was an outlandish claim on the bottle: spray this on your shower and you will NEVER HAVE TO CLEAN IT AGAIN. I couldn’t resist, I had to buy it.
And you know what? I don’t care if surfectant is a code word for weapons grade uranium and puppies’ blood, it WORKS! It totally cleans the shower without scrubbing. The grout still looks like crap, but at least now it’s CLEAN crap. Huzzah!
