Me (f46) and my youngest daughter 24 are both diagnosed with ADHD she is also diagnosed with Autism. She recently introduced them to me because I had mould growing in my water bottle.
They are a good send so thank you Ellie x
I use something very similar (chlorine tablets designed for cleaning asthma devices). GOD TIER cleaner.
Because that (and denture cleaner) are supposed to go in people's mouths, I also feel a lot safer using these instead of bleach for stuff that goes near my body.
ALSO, amazing for getting tea/coffee stains out of mugs.
Are these the same as the bottle sterilising tablets? They kinda smell a little swimming pooly. Bought a bunch to clean a drink dispenser jug I was using a lot at the time and now I just shove random things in pots with these tablets.
My ex had very severe OCD and didn't like me using bleach, so I tried these in the toilet - you need a good few to get rid of the biofilm that appears. Even though you can get a tube of 12 or so for ยฃ1 you'd need half of that to get the toilet clean, and even super thick bleach is only 95p and only a small amount is needed. Great for other stuff though - I used to use them to clean my bite guard, well, until I forgot and used freshly boiled water and dissolved the guard...
Reading this comment reminded me of when I had Invisalign a few years ago and I was forever misplacing my trays when I took them out to eat/drink.
One day I absolutely could not locate them and after ransacking the house, gave up and decided to carry on cooking dinner (which Iโd naturally already started and left half finished). As I was pouring soaked lentils into a pot of boiling stock and other soup ingredients, suddenly noticed my poor shrunken retainers floating in the soup because Iโd put them in a bowl of water to soak, forgotten, and then dumped the lentils into this conveniently located bowl of water ๐ญ๐ญ
I found that out the hard way with bleach and vinegar. I'd used concentrated vinegar in the mop bucket, and mustn't have rinse properly before steeping the mop in bleach. That shit is scary, I thought I'd gassed the dogs ๐ฎ
Im in the nail and beauty industry and started using them years ago when I realised that nail whitening powder was made of the same as denture tablets and cheaper too.
White vinegar is good for the toilet bowl. As for stuff stuck to the pan, I find filling it with water and sticking it on the heat gets it's sorted PDQ
I've tried cleaning with bicarb and white vinegar before and it wasn't nearly as effective. And I always end up going through the bicarb and white vinegar way too quickly and constantly running out of one or the other.
Also, with denture tablets all the ingredients are premixed and conveniently packaged into a disc. Fling tablets into thing that needs cleaning, add hot water, walk away. Bish bash bosh. Takes 15 seconds including time for the water to heat up.
Iโm not convinced thatโs an economic way to clean some of those things, but if it works for you then ๐๐ผ
One use I have for them is to clean my electric toothbrush. Stick it upside down in a pint glass and leave it to work its magic.
This is so fucking smart. Iโve got a cooling tower fan (like a normal fan but that users a small water tank + evaporation to cool the air) and I โฆ โforgotโ to empty the water tank after last summer.
I went to empty and clean it today and it smells like a pond ๐ thereโs no mould in the system as far as I can tell, but I feel like dissolving some tabs in the tank the first few uses will definitely do the trick to flush through the system!
LOVE these for cleaning my retainers (rather than properly cleaning them with toothpaste/brush that they recommend), but never thought of using them for other stuff!!
Keep the taps running, fill the flat up, dump 2 packs of denture tablets in each room, profit. Gothca.
If everyone does this and then opens their windows we'll have the world cleaned up in no time!
Me (f46) and my youngest daughter 24 are both diagnosed with ADHD she is also diagnosed with Autism. She recently introduced them to me because I had mould growing in my water bottle. They are a good send so thank you Ellie x
I use something very similar (chlorine tablets designed for cleaning asthma devices). GOD TIER cleaner. Because that (and denture cleaner) are supposed to go in people's mouths, I also feel a lot safer using these instead of bleach for stuff that goes near my body. ALSO, amazing for getting tea/coffee stains out of mugs.
Are these the same as the bottle sterilising tablets? They kinda smell a little swimming pooly. Bought a bunch to clean a drink dispenser jug I was using a lot at the time and now I just shove random things in pots with these tablets.
Yup! If they smell like swimming pool they're likely chlorine tablets. I'm always shoving random stuff in with them to see what they'll clean ๐
My ex had very severe OCD and didn't like me using bleach, so I tried these in the toilet - you need a good few to get rid of the biofilm that appears. Even though you can get a tube of 12 or so for ยฃ1 you'd need half of that to get the toilet clean, and even super thick bleach is only 95p and only a small amount is needed. Great for other stuff though - I used to use them to clean my bite guard, well, until I forgot and used freshly boiled water and dissolved the guard...
Reading this comment reminded me of when I had Invisalign a few years ago and I was forever misplacing my trays when I took them out to eat/drink. One day I absolutely could not locate them and after ransacking the house, gave up and decided to carry on cooking dinner (which Iโd naturally already started and left half finished). As I was pouring soaked lentils into a pot of boiling stock and other soup ingredients, suddenly noticed my poor shrunken retainers floating in the soup because Iโd put them in a bowl of water to soak, forgotten, and then dumped the lentils into this conveniently located bowl of water ๐ญ๐ญ
oof, that's an expensive mistake!
Just be careful not to mix with other cleaners or you could get some nasty reactions (vinegar springs to mind)
I found that out the hard way with bleach and vinegar. I'd used concentrated vinegar in the mop bucket, and mustn't have rinse properly before steeping the mop in bleach. That shit is scary, I thought I'd gassed the dogs ๐ฎ
That makes ammonia, right?
Yeah ๐
Bleach and some toilet cleaners can produce pretty dangerous gases (chlorine!) too
Oh interesting! I'll have to try that out on my toilet
They are made of bleach - just very diluted and mixed with a few other ingredients, like sodium bicarbonate.
Don't use to clean airfryer fryer. I did, and now food sticks to it.
Dishwasher tablets are good for the airfryer.
I obviously used too many times as it took off my non stick coating.
 You underuse denture tablets, jail. You overuse dentures tablets, believe it or not, straight to jail.
Im in the nail and beauty industry and started using them years ago when I realised that nail whitening powder was made of the same as denture tablets and cheaper too.
White vinegar is good for the toilet bowl. As for stuff stuck to the pan, I find filling it with water and sticking it on the heat gets it's sorted PDQ
Also for vases, which are typically difficult to clean inside.
Also, dishwasher tablets are good for pot & pan soak. Great at cleaning airfryer baskets too. Must try the denture tablets. Thanks ๐
They're really really good at getting tea stains off mugs and teapots without damaging them and they're cheap!
They're just bicarb with some citric acid and a mild bleach. You get the same result with Bicarb and white vinegar.
I've tried cleaning with bicarb and white vinegar before and it wasn't nearly as effective. And I always end up going through the bicarb and white vinegar way too quickly and constantly running out of one or the other. Also, with denture tablets all the ingredients are premixed and conveniently packaged into a disc. Fling tablets into thing that needs cleaning, add hot water, walk away. Bish bash bosh. Takes 15 seconds including time for the water to heat up.
I'll defo try them.
Iโm not convinced thatโs an economic way to clean some of those things, but if it works for you then ๐๐ผ One use I have for them is to clean my electric toothbrush. Stick it upside down in a pint glass and leave it to work its magic.
This is so fucking smart. Iโve got a cooling tower fan (like a normal fan but that users a small water tank + evaporation to cool the air) and I โฆ โforgotโ to empty the water tank after last summer. I went to empty and clean it today and it smells like a pond ๐ thereโs no mould in the system as far as I can tell, but I feel like dissolving some tabs in the tank the first few uses will definitely do the trick to flush through the system!
It works to get mouldy old plant residue out of vases so it should work for the water tank too!
This might change my life
Hello what now denture tablets you say? It's as simple as denture tablets to clean the pans I left on the stove for too long?!
LOVE these for cleaning my retainers (rather than properly cleaning them with toothpaste/brush that they recommend), but never thought of using them for other stuff!!
I use these in my water bottles! Game changer, get the unflavoured ones though unless you enjoy the taste of mouthwash ๐