“I'm a cleaning expert: Decorate your toilet to keep it clean with ease” - Daily Record

A cleaning expert shared a simple trick she uses to keep her toilet clean and smelling good. But people are divided when she points out several problems with this method.

3:23 p.m., March 8, 2025

Decorating your toilet can help you keep it clean effortlessly (stock image) (Image: Filartface via Getty Images )

A cleaning guru on TikTok has gone viral for sharing how she "decorates" her toilet to keep it clean while making it look beautiful, but not everyone is convinced it's worth it.

TikTok creator Anouk, better known online as "clean_with_anouk," is known for her cleaning videos where she shares her top tips for keeping your home looking and smelling great with her simple cleaning tips.

However, one of her videos caused a stir among her 37,000 subscribers when she was seen "decorating" her toilet to make it look nicer and keep it clean.

"Decorate my toilet with me," she wrote in a video, showing how she used different scented and colored cleaning pads on the inside of the toilet bowl to create a multicolored pattern.

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These gel discs are drawn from a tube into the toilet bowl, where the antibacterial gel slowly dissolves with each flush, helping to keep the toilet clean.

Anouk started by placing the brown colors in a circle at the bottom of the container before adding the yellow ones on top. He then continued with blue and pink slices until he reached the top of the bowl.

Despite this fun and useful tip, people were not impressed with Anouk's cleaning tip as many of them saw several problems with decorating the toilet in this way.

One user expressed concern, saying: "Imagine how much 'dirt' will be trapped between the flowers?!" However, he assured them that the discs were designed to get smaller with each flush, effectively removing any "dirt."

Another person expressed concern about the impact on the environment, saying: "And so all the chemicals end up in the water and nature," while a third person said: "So much wasted product."

However, others expressed their admiration for the trick, although some questions remained. One person commented: "I love it but it's a shame when number 2 leaves a stain and you have to wipe it all off," while another viewer asked: "What if you had to use a toilet brush?"

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A third person then replied: "You have to go in with a toothbrush to go through all the nooks and crannies around each flower."

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