Cleaning Bath Toys??

[Nettie]

Anyone got suggestions for cleaning bath toys? Especially ones that are showing some mould

Some of them are getting mouldy on the inside - so it's not just a matter of wiping them off!

Thank you for any help! I don't want to have to chuck & re-buy toys all the time!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

APPARENTLY - you get a bucket of warm water and bleach.

Chuck the toys in there: those with the mould inside, you need to fill with this concoction.

Leave for about an hour.

Rinse with cold water (remember to get the mixture out of the toys) as much as required

Leave in the sunlight, ideally for a whole day but for at least 5 hours.


This worked mostly for me, but not fantastically... but then, we don't have sunlight in England!

[sunshine_sieben]

I thought bleach only "hides" the mold but doesn't kill it...
I have wondered the same thing in the past. I stopped buying squirt toys for that exact reason. For all her other bath toys, I bought one of those net thingies that attach to the wall above tthe tub with suction caps. But I actually use stick on hooks, as the suction cups don't work so well. I get DD to empty all her toys and put them in the net before getting out of the tub. I think getting them dry between uses stops them from getting moldy.

Sasa

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

The bleach starts to break down the mildew and mould, the sunshine finishes the job. Which is why it only partly worked for me. The more sun, the better.

[sunshine_sieben]

That makes sense.
Pity you can't get the sun to the inside of those squirt toys... even worse when you don't get much sun. Although I can't say we have a shortage of sun atm in Queensland...

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Oh dear me. You've just explained why the lighter toys that you can see inside of worked a lot better than the really thick dark ones.

I am so silly sometimes!

But if you have light-ish toys then the sun works even through the plastic.

*puts on dunce cap and sits in the corner.*