The Best Bathroom Tile Cleaner

Your guide to this review today is by Cleaning expert Adam Barker
Published on
March 22nd, 2019

Expert BioExpert Bio

Adam has a passion for cleaning from his youth growing up in England, and he has carried it with him to the US. Adam’s formal training and certifications in cleaning include the Advanced System Cleaning specialist (For HVAC cleaning / ductwork), through NADCA (this is the highest certification that NADCA has), as well as several other certifications from the IICRC. Adam has either advised, consulted, or done research with dozens of cleaning and cleaning related business entities. Adam holds an undergraduate degree from Oxford, a Master’s degree from Oxford, and a Master’s degree from Harvard Business School.

The Cleaning Institute

Finding a reliable bathroom tile cleaner is important for a couple of different reasons. Bathrooms are, by the very nature of what they are used for, some of the dirtiest rooms in the house, so it is important that you try and keep every part of them clean. This includes the tile.

In addition, you spend a significant amount of time in your bathroom on a daily basis. Because of this, it is important that you not put yourself in a position where you are constantly being exposed to germs or even mold, which commonly forms in bathrooms because of the amount of showering that is done in them on a regular basis.

That is why The Cleaning Institute, who has 35 years of professional experience in the cleaning industry, is here to help you find the best bathroom tile cleaner for your needs. We want to make sure that your bathroom is as clean as humanly possible, so we independently tested out dozens of different bathroom tile cleaners, and then managed to find three that we were finally able to award our Top Pick, Honorable Mention, and Green Pick awards to.

However, you might be wondering how The Cleaning Institute managed to come up with the criteria that we used to decide which products deserved our top awards. In an attempt to make our rating system as transparent and easy to understand as possible, we went out of our way to simplify the review process as much as we could, and we ended up settling on three major types of criteria to help us make our final decision, which we will now explain in more detail below.

Testing Categories

To make this as streamlined as could be for both the readers and ourselves, we narrowed the categories down to three main points: power, application, and odor. Once we assembled the categories, we individually ranked each product and then managed to average their scores together to come up with our overall final determinations.

We will now explain in greater detail below what those categories are comprised of and how they factor into our final scores.

Power: For our purposes, we are defining power as how strong the bathroom tile cleaner was, which means if it was more concentrated, we gave the product a higher score in this category. If it was not concentrated or required a heavy amount of usage, the product’s score was lowered in that category.

It should be noted that we rated this category more heavily than the other two. The reason for this is that if the power of the bathroom tile cleaner was low, it would result in the customer having to buy more of that product, and that is something that we think should be avoided whenever possible.

Application: As far as the application is concerned, this category specifically relates to how easy it was to use the bathroom tile floor cleaner and whether the bottle or spray mechanisms had any sort of difficulty or defect within them. If so, we lowered the score of the product in this category. We also deducted points from it if the packaging was damaged in any kind of meaningful way.

Odor: This one is pretty self-explanatory – we wanted to make sure that the product did not have an overly unpleasant or pungent odor while it was being used. If it did, we lowered its overall score in that particular category.

Top Pick

Tub
& Tile
Cleaner

Mrs. Meyers Tub & Tile Cleaner has a pleasant lemon scent which actually doubles as aromatherapy, and the formula is specially designed for use on bathroom surfaces.

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Most notable upside: This is an extremely effective product, as it smells great, and the concentrated formula allows you to get the job done right the first time without having to use an entire bottle in one sitting.

Biggest downsides: In certain instances, it does take the smell a little longer to dissipate than normal, but this did not happen during every trial that we undertook.

Honorable Mention

Daily
Shower Tub &
Tile Cleaner

Good Life Solutions Bathroom Cleaner is only made with four naturally occurring products, which makes it a great choice for those trying to avoid harsh chemicals.

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Most notable upside: This cleaner consistently provided great results with even the hardest to clean up messes, and it managed to do so while having a very light and pleasant smell to boot, which means there will not be any nausea or queasiness while using this product.

Biggest downsides: Unfortunately, there were a handful of instances where this product underperformed a little bit, and at the price it is currently listed at, there are cheaper products that are available on the market.

Green Pick

Better Life
Natural Tub
and Tile Cleaner

Better Life Natural Tub and Tile Cleaner is one of the most eco-friendly bathroom tile cleaners on the market, making it ideal for those who have kids or pets to use.

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Most notable upside: This product manages to remove even significant amounts of scum, dirt, grime, and other nastiness without being made with harsh chemicals, so for those who have chemical allergies or whose homes or apartments have pets or children in them, this is a great product to use when you need a bathroom tile cleaner. In addition, there is a light scent to this product, but it smells like essential oils and not bleach or other harsh cleaning chemicals.

Biggest downsides: Unfortunately, the main issues that we found with this product were all related to the packaging of it. There was an instance of a used bottle being sent with no seal on one occasion, and in another instance, the bottle flat out arrived empty. Because of this, we were forced to significantly lower the product’s score in this particular category.