Get rid of the wee smell for good with this clever hack!
As the mum of two little boys, “Why can I smell wee?” is one of my most repeated phrases.
What smells?
And to add insult to injury we have also just completed a very late round of toilet training. The result? Wee smell everywhere.
Thankfully, genius mums have come up with an unlikely but highly effective little hack to get rid of the smell.
Want to know what it is? Easy. Just grab a can of shaving cream and squirt it all over the floor. Yep. Alllll over it!
Check out the mums all over Facebook doing exactly that using the hashtag #lifewithboys:
Just found out this awesome hack! Definitely saving for future with these boys! Foam shaving cream removes the smell of…
Posted by Johanna Marie Balluch on Monday, 12 November 2018
And:
boy-mom hack 🚨🚨classic cheap shaving cream removes the smell of urine from your bathroom flooring and trim around…
Posted by Lynda Stienstra on Tuesday, 6 November 2018
Put that shaving cream to use
So how do you do it? As the photos above suggest, this is quite the production!
Grab a can of shaving cream. Aim it on the walls and the floor and shoot – cover all the floor surface, as much as you can.
Mums seem divided as to how long you need to leave the shaving cream on before removing it – some suggest the longer the better – overnight even!
How it works
According to the Mums Who Clean Facebook group, nobody is sure why this method works, but apparently it’s thought the chemical combination in the shaving cream destroys the ‘uric acid crystals’ in urine, completely removing the smell instead of masking over it.
Nothing worse than that barely-masked wee smell is there? Well, the shaving cream solution seems like a game-changer.
So gross. So real. And so simple if it really works!
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