Sno Bol Thick Toilet Bowl Cleaner Review

There are 2 boys and 1 man in my household so you can bet I have to clean the toilets frequently.  Our town also uses water that is rough on the pipes and hard on the toilets, toilets need to be cleaned at least every other day or you risk staining.  You don't have to do a major cleaning every day, but you need to give it a swirl with the toilet brush, just to keep the sediment from sticking. 

Whenever we on vacation we usually come home to stained toilets, and I have to admit that not all of the cleaners I have used on these toilets has worked really well.  The last product I was using was leaving some staining along the ridge so I had to try something else.  One of the least expensive cleaning products I could find that said it helped remove rust and hard water stains was Sno Bol, so I purchased it.

Sno bowl comes in a 24 fluid oz bottle.  The top of the bottle is angled so that you can squirt it under the ridge and underside of the toilet.  It doesn't come out perfectly like you want it to, but although it might not be the neatest squirt job you can eventually get it done. 

I used it and left it to sit in the toilet and around the rim for about 15 minutes as suggested.  I also used it to clean the bottom of the toilet and the seat.  There were some stains on the seat due to a medication that a family member of mine was on that died their urine.  The medicine seemed to get in the air and stained the underside of the toilet seat orange in some places.  I squirt some of the Sno Bol on the seat and let it sit for 15 minutes as well.  The stain did lighten up but did not completely go away, it actually turned a light shade of pink, which while was not what I was going for is not as gross looking as the orange color. 

As for the hard water stains, it worked really, really well.  I have to say that my toilet bowl has not looked this bright and sparkly in years.  I did not even have to scrub it just came right off. 

While I was cleaning I was noticing a urinal type smell, you know it smells like those little cleaning patty things they put in urinals.  It is not a pleasant smell. I figure one it was all wiped away and clean that the smell would go away. 

I cleaned the toilet at around 2 in the afternoon and it was still smelling that terrible urinal smell at 9 O'Clock at night. Since my powder room is right next to the kitchen it was really starting to make me sick.  Nobody in my family complanied, but to me the smell is just unbearable.  

Now I am at a catch 22.  The product worked amazingly on the hard water deposits, and really got the underside of the rim clean, and I did not have to work that hard to get these results, but unfortunately it smells so bad, that I don't think that I want to use it any more.  After it was all dried and clean, I even sprayed some lemon scented all purpose cleaner on the toilet and wiped it off, but the urinal smell overpowered the the lemon smell. 

So my feelings about this are mixed.  I guess it is nice to have a sparkly clean toilet, and I am happy that some stains that I could not get off with other products are now gone.  So I guess it is worth it, and hopefully the smell will eventually fade.