How Can I Get Soap Scum Build Up Off Shower Walls?
Thoroughly clean the soap scum from all surfaces on the inside of your shower, bath, and/or sink. This should be the last time you have to clean these surfaces this hard. Using a mildly-abrasive cleaner like Soft-Scrub or Ajax and a scrub sponge should make the task easier. Allow all surfaces to dry completely. This is critical to the effectiveness of the next step. Apply Rain-X, or an equivalent product, to all vertical surfaces. Apply it like a car wax: using a rag, rub it on with small overlapping circles to ensure full coverage–you’ll see a haze on clear surfaces like the shower door. Once it dries, buff it off using another rag or towel. The product fills in all the small pores on the surface making it smooth so soap scum can’t stick. Trade in any bar soaps (except for Zest or Ivory) for liquid or gel body washes. Synthetic soaps–all liquids and gels are synthetic–don’t create soap scum like true soaps do. As noted above, a few bar soaps, like Ivory, are also synthetic, so they
