For savvy homeowners, residents, and renters, its important to have house cleaning tools that you can rely on to get the job done. When it comes to your bathroom cleanliness, no tool is more important than a toilet brush.
When its time to replace your current toilet brush – or buy your first one – you can go 1 of 2 ways: go over the Amazon and buy whatever toilet brush has the highest rating, or you can read through the many, many listicles that go in depth about the different features of the best toilet brushes on the market. Some that are worth checking our include NYTimes’ Wirecutter article, The Spruce, and Reviewed.com’s list.
But before you do, you should make sure that the toilet brush is going to do what its intended to do and stand up to the task.
This post has been updated for 2023.
What Does a Toilet Brush Do?
Rings form on your toilet bowl from hard water residue, mold, mildew, and (obviously) bacteria from human waste. While these rings aren’t necessarily a health hazard, they can eventually be a health problem. On top of that, it looks bad. If you’re having guests over, you will often find yourself wanting to clean the toilet bowl.
At the end of the day, a good toilet brush does one thing really well: cleans your toilet bowl. The stiff bristles are designed to cut through the grime and scum that often gathers on the toilet bowl.
The shape of today’s toilet brush is designed to easily get up under the rim and down into the pipe.
What Features Do the “Best” Toilet Brushes Have in Common?
When looking through the lists of the “best” toilet brushes, there are a few things that they all have in common.
- Grippy, ergonomic handle – The last thing you want to happen while cleaning your toilet is to lose grip on the handle, splashing unwanted water around. A comfortable, grippy handle will make it easy to keep control over your toilet brush and get into those hard to reach spots.
- Curved or rounded bristle head – This is a feature that is common to pretty much all toilet brushes, but the best ones have an elevated bristle design to ensure that there’s nowhere toilet bowl grime can hide.
- Clean look and feel – There are discount/budget toilet bowl cleaners that will probably get the job done just fine, but they can look like an eye sore. The best toilet brushes feature a modern, clean design so that they don’t look out of place as an accessory in your bathroom.
- Floor stand and cover – The floor stand offers a stylish and functional place to store your toilet brush and also keeps things sanitary. After you finish brushing your bowl and shake off any debris from the brush in a clean bowl of water, you can keep the brush from leaking all over the floor by storing it in your brush floor holder.
So, What’s the Best Toilet Brush?
We put together a list based on all the ratings available on the web and here’s how they all rank:
- OXO Compact Toilet Brush
- simplehuman Toilet Brush
- mDesign Slim Compact Toilet Bowl Brush
- Mr. Siga Brush and Plunger Combo
- IKEA Bolmen
- Jagurds Stainless Steel Toilet Brush
- ToiletTree Products Toilet Brush and Plunger Combo
- Boomjoy Toilet Brush
- Clorox Toilet Wand
- WiMiUS Electric Spin Scrubber
- Rubbermaid Comfort Grip Toilet Bowl Brush
A List of the Best Toilet Brushes for 2022
Here’s a breakdown of the top rating sites and which toilet brushes they have on their list.
NYTimes Wirecutter
- OXO Compact Toilet Brush
- simplehuman Toilet Brush
- IKEA Bolmen
- Boomjoy Toilet Brush
The Spruce
- OXO Compact Toilet Brush
- Mr. Siga Brush and Plunger Combo
- Jagurds Stainless Steel Toilet Brush
- Clorox Toilet Wand
Bob Vila
- simplehuman Toilet Brush
- mDesign Slim Compact Toilet Bowl Brush
- ToiletTree Products Toilet Brush and Plunger Combo
- WiMiUS Electric Spin Scrubber
Gadget Review
- OXO Compact Toilet Brush
- mDesign Slim Compact Toilet Bowl Brush
- Rubbermaid Comfort Grip Toilet Bowl Brush
- simplehuman Toilet Brush