The bathroom is one of the dirtiest places in your home.

If you spend hours cleaning your bathroom several times a week, put the bleach down: you’re wasting a whole lot of time according to one molecular virology expert.

Emma Harding, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, has shared that using soapy water to clean your bathroom just once a week is more than enough.

The pro told 9Honey Living: “Soapy water is very effective at killing a wide range of microbes, so your regular cleaning can be done with that.”

If stuff does start getting grottier than soapy........

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