How to clean a porcelain tub
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Easy Off No Fume Oven Cleaner in the BLUE can. Spray it on let it foam and sit for a while. Rinse away.
Simply use "Soft Scrub" a other agents oftentimes contain ingredients that, while they certainly will clean, will scratch the porcelain surface. That includes abrasive cleansers.
Try bleach, but , close the drain & mix it with water. Let the bleach/water solution sit for several minutes, then rinse. Be careful that you don't get it on your clothing, it may remove the color!
bleach is not a cure all especially if the stains or soil were not mentioned.
Do not use bleach on a porcelain tub. An old porcelain tub is with a ferrous (iron) component. The chlorine element in a classic chlorine-based bleach oxidizes the iron from the porcelain. Oxidized iron is rust, the tub can get rusty red color streaks.
Hydrogen peroxide, Oxi Clean, and Clorox 2 are all chlorine-free cleaning agents (also the reason why they're color-safe) which have oxygen as a base element. Oxygen is a reducing agent with basic solutions– so the oxidized stains are actually changing their chemical composition– and in this case probably also releasing chlorine gas. Make sure your bathroom is well-ventilated; you don't want to breathe in too much chlorine gas!