Shopping for a toilet brush seems pretty simple, but here are a few things to keep in mind to find the best one for your home. After spreading a sunflower butter paste onto the inside of a toilet bowl and allowing it to air dry for 20 minutes, each brush was used to clean the bowl with no additional toilet bowl cleaner (except for the Clorox ToiletWand, which has cleaner built into the scrubbing head). Cleaning the toilet isn't exactly a fun chore, and the fact that most standard toilet brushes aren't exactly aesthetically pleasing doesn't help, either. I mean, unless you have a ton of storage space to stow your toilet brush out of sight, it's typically one of those cleaning products that just lives out in the open, even if it's kind of gross. Some toilet brushes are designed to look sleeker or more interesting for this exact reason, but this cactus-shaped bathroom brush, made by Qualy, really takes the cake. Bristles vs. silicone: There are two kinds of brush heads that make up the majority of the toilet brushes on the market: plastic bristles and silicone. While both kinds of toilet brushes will get your toilet bowl clean, most silicone brushes require a little more effort and wrist maneuvering than those with plastic bristles. Traditional plastic bristle toilet brushes are easy to use, clean well and are more readily available at local stores. On the other hand, silicone brushes trap less water in the brush head and can be more durable than traditional plastic bristle brushes. To find the best toilet brushes to clean your toilet bowl, our Cleaning Lab experts researched the most popular toilet brushes available to consumers — everything from traditional bristle brushes to silicone and biodegradable brushes made from coconut husks.

We chose 14 toilet brushes that best represented what is on the market and put them all through the same performance and ease-of-use tests. Brush head shape: Germs can get trapped and be forgotten under the rim of the toilet. Look for brushes with a rim cleaner or ones that have a shape that can easily be maneuvered to reach under the rim. Round, bristle and silicone brush heads were the easiest to maneuver in our tests. Cleaning with flat silicone brushes took a little more effort than we would like.

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