DIY Toilet Cleaner Pods with Fresh Lemon and Mint!

Learn how to make these great homemade DIY Toilet Cleaner Pods to finally clean your toilet the easy way. 

These lemon pods are not only pretty and smell amazing, but they are also disinfectant!! 

Include these pretty easy-to-make items in your cleaning bathroom routine and see the amazing changes!

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This week a friend of mine asked a poll about which was our least favorite home cleaning task to do. 

Every single one of us agreed. 

It was cleaning the bathrooms, especially the toilets. 

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Cleaning the Toilet: the horror!!

I don’t know about you but despite me being a clean and control freak, this is a task that I always run from. 

And… Do you live with a man or kids? 

I mean if you do, I don’t have to explain to you how gross the task of cleaning a bathroom can be. 

The most disgusting part it’s not the hair in the drain or the mold on the curtain… No…

It is to clean the freaking disgusting toilet! 

Yellow or brownish rings of water, that gross thing at the very bottom, and I don’t want to even think about all the germs there are in there. 

That’s where the DIY toilet cleaner pods come in.

My old cleaning the toilet routine. 

I am making a bathroom decor renovation, and I already started making pretty things for it like my fabric boxes to hide all the ugly things from the counter.

So, this was the right time to change cleaning routines to match up with my pretty decorations. 

I mean… Who is going to look at your decor when your toilet is all gross and smelly? 

My very first toilet cleaning routine was ignoring it. No kidding I was so grossed out that I would just take the scrubby thingy and “kind of scrub” the toilet with a little chlorine. 

Of course, this never had good results and my OCD  just started to scream into my head that I should be doing a better job. 

So I ask the wisest person I know (my mother) what I should do. 

She told me white vinegar will solve it all. 

Could it have been that easy? 

Long answer short it wasn’t. 

I mean it was definitely better but still, it wasn’t giving me the spotless results I wanted to. 

Besides the odor of vinegar left behind was just too strong and honestly not too pleasant to have. 

That is what put me in the search of something better and I found the most incredible easy and mess-free solution. 

The toilet cleaning pods.

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Coming up with my own recipe for the DIY Toilet Pods. 

I didn’t use citric acid powder… (kinda)  

You know, I always do my research and experiments before writing a tutorial for you guys. 

I want you to have quality projects and not some random copy-paste you can find anywhere else online. 

That’s why after trying some of the recipes for the DIY toilet cleaning pods online I came up with my own version. 

A super fresh and very good smelly version. 

I have very recently got into gardening and have a beautiful basil bush out on my front porch, that I planted with great seeds. 

So I thought, hey… Do you know what smells amazing when you cut it?? 

Basil! 

In fact, I would have preferred to use mint, but I haven’t been able to grow that just yet.

So basil it was. 

The other important thing is that I didn’t find any citric acid in the powder as all the recipes suggested. 

So, I went all natural and added real lime juice instead. 

Best choice ever… 

I first peeled the lime peel with a grater and then I squeezed the lime into the mixture.

If you could only smell it. 

This is the kind of smell you want in your bathroom. 

And of course, I added a little bit of white vinegar because I still wanted the cleaning and taking care of the bacteria in there.

DIY Toilet Cleaner Pods Tutorial

All righty let’s get to the deal. To make these lime cleaning pods you will need:

• 1 cup of baking soda 
• 2 limes or lemons
• The peeling of the limes or lemons. 
• Leaves of mint or basil plant
• Distilled White vinegar 
• A silicone baking mold
• Something to mix things up
• A peeler or a grater

1. Stir dry ingridients

Stir the baking soda, the lemon peels, and the basil leaves chopped until combined. 

I used a peeler for my limes because I find the grater too hard to clean. 

At this step, you can add optional essential oil drops if you want. 

I suggest you a mint one.

2. Squeeze the lemon juice and slowly stir the mixture. 

In this step, you will notice that the mixture will start to bubble. 

That’s OK, don’t panic. 

As soon as the bubbles start to come up you are going to take your spoon and press them and mix them. 

Keep adding the juice and mixing them until everything is incorporated.

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3. Add small amounts of white vinegar. 

Now you are going to add small amounts of white vinegar and repeat the same process as we did with the lemon. 

The moment to stop is when you get a very soft paste that you can press and keep its shape. 

It might look a little bit watery but don’t worry, it will work.

4. Press into the molds. 

Take the mixture and start pouring and pressing the mixture into the molds to form the toilet pods. 

I took about one tablespoon and a half for each pod. 

But now that I see them I am thinking that because my molds were a little big next time I will add two tablespoons.

5. Place in the freezer. 

Yes. I know a lot of other tutorials say that you should let them dry, but here is the thing. 

This mixture has a little bit more liquid than the other recipes. 

Plus, I am not a patient person and I wanted them to be ready as soon as possible. 

I left them there for about 2 and a half hours and they were ready to unmold. 

The longer you keep them in there, the easier will be to unmold them after.

6. Unmold and let dry. 

Here comes the fun part! 

You will very carefully press the base of the molds to take out your pod. 

Once it is out, put them all over a towel and let them dry there overnight.

That’s it!! 

Now they are ready to use!

Tips for your DIY toilet Cleaner Pods 

If you notice that the pods break when you unmold them is because they need more time in the freezer. 

Put them back in the mold, crush them, and then add a drop or two of vinegar or lemon and press. 

Then let them freeze for more time. 

After they are dry handle with care! 

They are easily breakable. 

Store in an airtight jar or container in a fresh place.

How to use your DIY Toilet Pods

What I do is that I have prepared a bathroom cleaning station under my sink where I have all my cleaning items. 

Yes, all that I need for a stress-free clean bathroom. 

The first thing I do is drop one pod on the toilet and let it dissolve there. 

Then I spray the inside walls of the seat with chlorine. 

After I have done this, and I am not going to lie, I go in and take a shower while the products do their thing. 

By the time I am all wrapped with my towel and my diy hair towel wrap, I just take the scrub brush, I give it literally one scrub around it. 

Then I take one of the upcycled cloth (they used to be my hubby’s t-shirt) I keep in the basket. 

I get it a little wet with just water and then I pass it through the top part of the toilet and the toilet seat and throw everything inside the toilet. 

And then simply flush it all out.

Now you have a perfectly cleaned toilet!!

There you have it, now you have a new recipe for your own DIY toilet cleaner pods.

I hope you enjoy this project and that with this you have one less worry.

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