Iron OUT Rust Stain Remover Powder, Remove Rust Stains In Bathrooms, Kitchens, Appliances, Laundry, And Outdoors, 4.75 Pound Bottle

Many self-collected minerals from Quebec, Ontario, and northern New York are iron-stained as they come out of the ground. After soap and water, if there are still brown stains on silicates, Super Iron Out works wonders. I usually cover the specimens with water in a nonreactive Rubbermaid or Tupperware-type container with a lid to seal in the odor. I most often start with warm water, sprinkle in a couple tablespoons of Super Iron Out and then leave them overnight. In the morning, I carefully change the water with running hot fresh water and then add a liquid dishwashing detergent (I tend to like Ajax because it doesn't smell much). After giving sturdy pieces a quick scrub with a soft toothbrush, I use my Albatross 500 water gun to remove the remaining clay, etc. from little holes and crevices. If there are biologicals like lichens or roots, a soak in slightly diluted Chlorox does wonders. Generally I find that feldspars, amphiboles, pyroxenes, garnets, quartz, wollastonite, scapolite, titanite, and most other silicates are not changed by this procedure, except for losing their iron stain. Fluorapatite doesn't seem to be affected if it has high luster. Don't use this on goethite ps. after pyrite since the goethite will be dissolved away. Crystallized hematite is unaffected if low concentrations are used. For localities of specular hematite xls, the clay and mud that gets caught between the blades is freed up by short treatments with Super Iron Out and then a soft brush or a water gun does wonders. Calcite doesn't like Super Iron Out. If it is a weathered surface, e.g. Grenville Marble, it cleans it nicely, but makes the surface luster slightly more dull, i.e. from dull to really dull. Lustrous calcite xls are ruined by Super Iron Out. Fluorite xls are dulled slightly, but only slightly by this treatment. If it's iron stain or slight dulling, I usually choose slight dulling. Super Iron Out replaces the older Waller procedure with sodium hydrosulfite, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium citrate, works just as well, is much cheaper, and much, much easier to obtain.

Great stuff! It saved a toilet in my son's house. The toilet was rust stained, a gray and rust stain. His MIL had tried many things to clean this toilet. No luck. I poured some of this in, and the water roiled as it worked. Very cool! An hour later, I checked and it was mostly white. Just at the bottom it had gray scratch marks. Later, he poured a bit more in, and must have scrubbed it, as when I saw it next, it was all white. It's so easy! Pour it in and it cleans it. At my house, we have rusty water. We have a water softener that gives us clean water, but the house was empty for months and the toilet upstairs was seriously rust stained. I tried a pumice stone, and Barkeeper's Friend, and something else. None of those worked. But this stuff got it white. I just remembered something else. You want this is bit above the water line, so flush toilet, then line along water line with toilet paper, then sprinkle Iron Out on the moist toilet paper. Come back in an hour and expect a clean toilet bowl. Update: Today I added spray iron out, great addition! I got most of the bowl clean using above methods--flush toilet, lay toilet paper above water line, sprinkle in Iron Out, scoop some of it up onto toilet paper. Wait overnight. Flush. I was left with rust stains high in the bowl. I sprayed Iron Out in that area and scrubbed with a heavy duty green sponge. The rust stains came off! You can get under the rim with your sponge too. There are some excellent videos on YouTube about Iron Out taking on dirty toilets. I like my method better because: I did not shut off water I did not plunge I did not fill bowl with hot water--which can crack your toilet bowl. Hurray for all of us for getting rust stained toilets white again.

I have "city" water, but I had started to get brown, rust-like stains appearing here and there on my white towels, like what I would see years ago, when we had well water. These stains would would not come out with any of the stain removing products, home remedies, bleach that I used. I was very upset, because the stains were ruining my expensive towels. As a last-ditch effort, I laundered the towels with some of my old Iron Out, using it as directed on the bottle. It complety removed all of the brown stains (the towels in question had been washed and dried repeatedly, so the stains were set in), and afterward, I made an effort to immediately remove the towels as soon as the cycle finished to prevent more stains from appearing, as I think my old washer's drum is rusted and it is what is causing the issue. You only need half a cup, and while the product doesn't smell good, you can toss in a pod once the whites have soaked for a bit, and they'll come out smelling as they usually do.

Good product, helps to clean well

This product is amazing at cleaning a toilet tank. The Toilet tank was brown and sludgy and nasty looking. I decided to give this a try and to my amazement the tank is clean. I forgot to take a photo a few weeks ago when I used it but this is it now. Definitely will buy again. This was zero effort. If I wanted to clean it even better I could have but I haven’t had the time.

Bien

Really, really worked. Most of the rust came off first time from the toilet and just went over it again to take off the last traces.

Excellent product...will buy again