The Better Bowl Clean: Clorox Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner

Want the cleanest toilets available for your home or office? Then choose a brand name you already know and trust...The Clorox Company. Clorox Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner tablets far outperformed similar products in our three-commode home, and I recommend you try them for your toilet bowl cleaning needs.

Clorox Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner fills the bowl with bleach at every flush. Ninety-nine percent of the household germs are killed, and I like that. One tablet lasts for up to two months.

Using the product is simple: Clean toilet bowl thoroughly, including under rim. Open the package carefully, without touching the bleach tablet directly. Flush, and when the water level is lowest, drop one Clorox Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner tablet into the right rear corner of the tank, per manufacturer directions. With each flush, Clorox kills germs and leaves the bathroom smelling freshly sanitized. Bathroom cleanup is a breeze when using Clorox-brand tablets since no additional cleansers are required; simply brush as needed and flush.

Our household has auditioned a wide variety of bowl cleaners for the past few years, from generic store brands to organic products to brand names, including liquids, foams, and tablet cleaners. I much preferred the tablets for their ease of use, but with the competitors' products, the results were less than stellar. One drugstore brand's "similar to Clorox" bleach tablet sold for 99 cents but disintegrated in a few weeks and required more frequent brushing of the bowl. Another dollar-store product, Bowl Fresh, was a plastic cage-type in-bowl hanging dispenser, which releases cleaner as the water swirled post-flush. Bowl Fresh had a strange odor and contained the active ingredient Paradichlorobenzenehad, which was of concern since I had no idea what that was. My family's safety is important, so I choose cleaners from a manufacturer whose products are in 80% of America's households today: Clorox.

Prior to finding the Clorox tablets, we most recently used Lysol's Cling Clip-On 2in1 Toilet Bowl Deodorizer and Cleaner. Cling is available in a variety of fruity scents as well as a bleach-type product, and while their price per unit was a little lower, their performance fell short, only lasting an average 3 to 4 weeks, while Clorox consistently lasts 7-8 weeks or more. Cling's plastic in-bowl hanger was also visible inside the bowl, and I prefer that visitors to our home not readily recognize how we clean the commode. Finally, I like it that Clorox tablets are invisible while they work-no blue water, no plastic hanger dangling under the seat to intrigue small children. The slight chlorine bleach odor assures cleanliness and reminds me that Clorox is at work.

I recommend the Clorox Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner. For best pricing, buy in bulk from discount clubs or superstores, rather than buying small packages or shopping in more pricey grocery chains or drugstores. Avoid buying online since prices are too high (at time of writing).

Warning: Please read the package instructions prior to use.