Remove Yellow Toilet Stains Without Destroying All Your Rags and Sponges

Yellow toilet seats are the worst. Toilets are meant to be sat on, after all, and no one wants to come in direct contact with a yellow seat. But as hard as you might try to keep your seats spotless and white, over time, they tend to yellow from various unavoidable things— urine’s contact with the seat, build-up of minerals in hard water, and more. It can be hard to get the seat back to normal without serious elbow grease and ruining a few rags and sponges with bleach, vinegar or whatever other home remedies you try to attack the stain with.

But what if I told you there is a quick and simple hack to eliminate those yellow toilet stains without a hitch? Put the dish rags and homemade solutions aside because all you’ll need is a magic eraser, water and a little bit of elbow grease.

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The solution is so simple that you may not have even thought of it: All you need to do is wet a magic eraser and scrub at the yellow stains, and voila — your stain should lift in mere seconds, as displayed in countless TikTok videos of the trick, including this one by @leaderscleaning.

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An added bonus to this method is that you can preserve most of your magic eraser for other cleaning tasks by first ripping or cutting off a portion of your sponge necessary to complete the task and saving the rest for later.