Make Bathroom Cleaning Easy AND Effective

Barry Alt • September 15, 2025

Clean-Smart with Eco-Friendly Supplies

At Gabe’s Pride, we talk about cleaning a lot! To our regular customers, that’s no surprise. We are RV and home cleaning experts.

When cleaning your RV or home, there are 2 rooms that get the most use. These are our greatest focus during all our visits to talk about cleaning. I bet it’s no surprise to you that the kitchen and the bathroom take up most of our time and attention about the interiors. Today, we’re talking about cleaning the bathroom.

The Good

When cleaning an RV toilet bowl, it is important to use a good, eco-friendly and safe cleaner. Gabe’s Pride Bathroom cleaner is perfect for this job and a little goes a long way! Our formulation contains no chemicals that will harm the seals. That allows you to clean all the way down into the neck (tube). When doing so, we suggest using a toilet swab (not a brush). This tool helps to hold onto the cleaning mixture. That means you’re actually using the cleaning mixture and not just pushing dirty water around.

The Bad

We’ve had plenty to say about hard chemicals and dangerous materials. At Gabe’s Pride we believe The Power to Clean doesn’t have to come with foolish risks to health. We often speak with people who’ve been raised with using bleach as a cleaner and disinfectant. Ask us about THAT sometime.

BE CAREFUL! Bleach can damage the seals, burn skin and irritate eyes and lungs. Once damaged with bleach, your tank seals can become brittle and leak. In the event that enough bleach is mixed with urine and organic waste, black tanks and gray tanks can leak chloramine gas!

The Stinky

Whether in your home or RV, nobody gets excited about cleaning the toilet. But we sure do get upset when it’s a wreck. In our opinion, the best answer is regular cleaning. When that happens, the job is less of a chore and more likely to get done.

If you’ve cleaned your RV toilet, you know the fixtures and plumbing differ from most home set ups. At home, you might think a toilet brush is the perfect tool for your “throne”.

Let me pose 2 reasons why it’s not.

#1 Silicon or bristle brushes do not hold enough of the cleaning solution to be truly effective. YES, the bristles do create some friction. In this scenario though, you’re doing all the work and not getting the “clean” you probably want. Remember, choosing to “work smart, not hard”, means you have chemistry on your side! And if that chemistry IS working, bristles will NOT be needed.

In your home, the most likely material for your toilet is porcelain and standard (hard) plumbing for flushing the waste. Although the bristles of a brush are unlikely to cause damage, you’re still working too hard. A swab vs a brush is a better a better choice. Some readers will assume this opinion is shared here to promote sales. Let me pose a different point of view…

#2 You just cleaned the toilet bowl. You KNOW what you put in that toilet when you use it. It’s reasonable to expect that small and larger pieces of what you cleaned out of the toilet will remain on a toilet brush. Anything that survived your digestive tract could be sitting right there in the corner of your bathroom. Your HEALTH, SAFETY and GOOD SENSE will probably take a moment to consider a smarter choice.

Now, this is a place where I must apologize. We actually get a little giddy when we talk about cleaning the potty. This one topic covers so many private conversations with our friends in the RV community. Sometimes these questions are asked in a group. Sometimes they’re whispered privately. I promise that we’re not laughing at those who ask. If you’ve been to one of our cleaning demonstrations, you know there are a bunch of people there! We ALL know the stranger sitting next to us at a rally is going back to their rig tonight to use the toilet. And they want it clean, just like you do.

Work Smart

When cleaning the RV toilet, If you can, use a hose to wet the side walls to soften stuck material. Use the swab with cleaning mixture and wipe down the sides as far as you can reach. Once done, rinse with water. Keeping this clean is an important part of controlling the smell.

Shower cleaning is easy with Gabe’s Pride Bathroom Cleaner. A small amount on a wet microfiber cloth will get your shower and shower doors soap scum free! Gabe’s Pride Bathroom Cleaner is eco-friendly, biodegradable and safe for the surfaces.

Gabe’s Pride Bathroom Cleaner or Cream Cleanser works great on both the kitchen and bathroom sinks.

If you have cleaning questions, please feel free to contact us here!

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