What is the best way to clean children's bath toys?

Question

I used to have a rubber duck when I was a little girl that had mold growing inside it, and I would like to avoid this happening to my children's bath toys... I imagine that bleach would do the trick, but I don't really want to put bleach in them, for fear that I would not get the bleach out completely, and someone would squirt it in their eye or something crazy. Maybe I'm just paranoid!

Answer 1

Vinegar is a natural disinfectant. Let the toys air dry and the smell will go away in a few hours.

Answer 2

Well, thoroughly squeeze each ducky at the end of every bathtime before storing them, preferably in a hanging mesh bag(lingerie laundry bags hung from the showerhead work well). But you can dilute bleach about fifty fifty with hot water and suck it into each ducky and swish it around once in a while safely, just rinse in clean water and squeeze a few times. Bleach will evaporate, leaving a layer of salt behind, which is safely rinsed off. But I've always squeezed the ducks, now my 18 month old daughter helps cause she knows all the toys have to be put away before she gets out of the tub to do her naked run through the house bedtime chase, lol, and storing the toys in a mesh bath set I found(it has two suction cups with ducks on them and holds a yellow mesh bag between them, also has a spout cover), and we've lost only two ducks in a year and a half. And they were before the bag. Also, I clean them every once in a while with the hot bleach water, but it's been quite awhile.  Good luck~

Answer 3

Well I have a rule about bath-time toys, they must have two holes in them- for this reason.  Or have none at all.

Answer 4

use a bleach and water solution, Many city water towers use bleach to keep bacteria from growing. It does not take much bleach to keep mold at bay.  1/2 oz of bleach to a gallon of water should clean up the rubber ducky pretty well and once rinsed it should be safe......they also make sealed rubber ducky's now that don't take on water ......so no mold...

Answer 5

Try running it through the dishwasher ( If you have one).  Or you could soak it in bleach water - 1 capful of bleach in 1 gallon of lukewarm water, then rinse and wash again with dish soap.

Answer 6

Rinse with cool water and set it in the fridge till it's dry. This will prevent mold growth.