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How to Keep Your Bathroom Smelling Fresh Every Day

How to Keep Your Bathroom Smelling Fresh Every Day

Bathrooms can be one of the trickiest rooms in your home to keep smelling fresh. Between the regular use and high moisture and humidity the bathroom experiences, it's easy for musty odors to seep in, leaving your bathroom smelling less than fresh, even when it appears sparkling clean.

While bathroom odors might be impossible to avoid, it is possible to eliminate them and keep your bathroom smelling fresh every day. It starts with a few simple habits and the right bathroom air freshener.

Cleaning Tips: Your Regular Routine

You can’t have a fresh-smelling bathroom if the room isn’t kept clean. While a bathroom may not appear dirty, regular cleaning can prevent odors from forming around the toilet, sink, and shower or tub. While a good bathroom air freshener can help eliminate some odors, it's easier to enjoy the fresh scent when they are placed in a clean bathroom.

There are two types of cleanings that your bathroom should be getting: routine and deep cleaning. Routine cleanings happen more frequently, but take less time. Deep cleaning should take longer, but doesn’t need to happen as often, especially if you’re doing several routine cleanings in between.

How Often Should I Deep Clean?

For bathrooms with a normal amount of use, you should be doing a deep clean every three to four weeks. This includes cleaning in every nook and cranny, from the baseboards to the faucet head. Some items on your deep cleaning list should include:

  • Wiping down your vanity, walls, and baseboards
  • Mopping your floors
  • Washing your shower curtain
  • Cleaning drains
  • Wiping or soaking your showerhead

Cleaning these areas every few weeks can help keep your bathroom smelling fresh and prevent mold and mildew from forming in areas that you might not think to clean regularly.

What does a routine cleaning include?

Make it a habit to clean the biggest odor-causers in your bathroom at least once a week—more if your bathroom sees heavy use. This includes the toilet and surrounding floor, sink and countertop, shower walls, trash can, and drains. Some things you should include on your routine cleaning to-do list include:

  • Wiping down all surfaces
  • Clean the toilet
  • Wipe down the sink
  • Sweep/vacuum the floor and mop
  • Wash all towels, including hand towels and bath towels
  • Clean the shower and/or tub

This includes some of the most high-traffic surfaces and the spots that are most prone to forming mold and mildew, which can lead to unpleasant smells in your bathroom that even the best air freshener will have trouble masking.

What cleaning products should you use?

The bathroom might not be the best place for your favorite fresh-smelling cleaning products. While a good-smelling product might seem like a good option, it's more important to choose products that can disinfect your bathroom and also fight mold and mildew, and help keep it from forming in between cleanings.

On your sink and toilet, use a disinfecting spray, with or without bleach. Use a dedicated toilet bowl cleaner for the bowl of your toilet. In your shower or tub, you should choose an acidic or foaming cleaner that can help tackle soap scum and leave your surfaces clean and fresh.

Avoid Musty Smells: Keep Moisture Under Control

While you might assume that the toilet is the biggest cause of odors in the bathroom, moisture from your shower, bath, and sink can actually be the greatest contributor. Bathrooms are naturally humid and are the perfect environment for mildew to form.

Reducing moisture in your space before it can lead to odors can help. To get rid of excess moisture in your bathroom, run your exhaust fan during and after showers, hang damp towels to dry rather than leaving them in a pile, and wash and replace your bathmats regularly, allowing them to dry completely between uses. Reducing humidity can go a long way toward avoiding stale bathroom odors.

Don’t Let Small Details Add Odors

Cleaning your bathroom regularly can help prevent odors around the toilet or those caused by humidity. But making sure to take care of smaller cleaning duties in your bathroom can also help.

Empty your bathroom trash regularly, wash and replace your hand towels every few days, replace old shower curtains and liners, clean and dry your toilet brush between uses, and clean your drains periodically. All of these details are easy to forget, but can add odors to your space without you even realizing it.

What’s the Best Type of Air Freshener for a Bathroom?

The last step to keep your bathroom smelling fresh every day is to choose a great bathroom air freshener. The right fragrance can completely change how your bathroom feels. It can help the space feel fresh and clean and can even help eliminate some odors.

Sprays

One of the most common types of air fresheners for bathrooms are sprays. But while Febreze and similar options may provide a quick burst of scent, this doesn’t last long. Long-lasting air fresheners can keep your bathroom smelling great for longer.

Candles

Another popular option for bathrooms is candles. While these come in a wide variety of scents and styles and can look great in your bathroom, they aren’t practical. Most bathrooms lack adequate room for a candle to burn. Unless you’re planning on staying in the bathroom, this also means leaving your candle unattended. This can be a major safety risk, especially if the candle is close to your shower curtain or towels.

Reed diffusers

Reed diffusers are a safer alternative to candles. They feature a container of scented oil with reeds placed in it. As the oil soaks into the reeds, it releases the scent. These are a good alternative to candles, but still may not be a good fit for bathrooms, especially if you lack counter space. Reed diffusers are easy to tip over and very messy if spilled.

Plug-ins

Plug-ins also feature scented oil, but rely on electricity to diffuse the scent into the air. While tougher to spill than a reed diffuser, these require an outlet. Many bathrooms have only one or two outlets. If you also need it for styling products, or if your outlet is located in a tight space, plug-in scent diffusers might not work for your bathroom.

Sachets

Sachets are a great choice for bathrooms. They require no electricity, make no mess, and provide long-lasting scents to your bathroom.

The Godrej aer collection of air fresheners is a great choice for bathrooms. From the calming scent of Lavender Bloom to the clean, crisp smell of Sea Breeze, these scents are perfect for bathrooms and deliver long-lasting, powerful fragrance that will keep your bathroom smelling great day after day. 

Where you place your bathroom air freshener is also important. Place it in a central location so the fragrance can circulate easily throughout the room.

Keep Your Bathroom Smelling Fresh

Getting your bathroom smelling fresh doesn’t have to be complicated. By keeping the space clean, controlling moisture, and utilizing the stylish, fresh-smelling bathroom air fresheners from Godrej aer, you can enjoy a bathroom that feels and smells clean every time you walk in.

If you’re ready to elevate your bathroom, check out our selection of scents to choose the perfect one for your home.

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