Check out our favourite uses for WD-40®…
Cleans gunk and scuff marks off your ceramic floors. Shines and remove fingerprints from stainless steel appliances. Lubricates squeaky drawers, doors, and small rolling toys. Keeps your garden tools rust and grime free.
Quiet squeaky hinges. Keep flexible joints lubricated and silent with WD-40® Multi-Use Product. A quick spray will provide squeak relief on automotive doors, windshield wipers, swinging gates, sticking ladders, storm doors, pruning shears, roof ventilators, fire alarm boxes, folding chairs and more.
The solvents in WD-40 help dissolve gunk and lime in your toilet. Spray WD-40 in your toilet bowl and leave it for one to two minutes. Then, use a toilet brush to help scrub away the grime. Because it's so effective, there's no need to saturate your toilet—a little goes a long way.
To remove hard water stains and soap scum film on a glass shower, spray the entire surface at once (we recommend wearing non-slip shoes, as WD-40 contains oil and the floor could get slippery). Give it from 15 to 30 minutes to work, and then wipe it away with clean microfiber towels.
And they can be very difficult to remove from your shower doors. But if you have a can of WD-40 Multi-Use product on hand, you can remove hard water stains from shower doors quickly and easily.
When cleaning a toilet bowl, WD-40 works by softening the rust and lime deposits, so they can be easily wiped away. You don't need to use much of it. Simply spray on the affected area, wait a minute or two and brush it away with a regular toilet brush.
Skin contact: May cause drying of skin and/or irritation. Eye contact: May cause irritation, tearing and redness. Ingestion (Swallowed): May caused irritation, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. First Aid Emergency Procedures Ingestion (Swallowed): Do not induce vomiting, seek medical attention.
Patients who suffer from arthritis are trying anything to relieve those stiff and aching joints. Some have even tried spraying sore joints with WD-40 as they would to fix a squeaky, door hinge.
Two parts WD-40 to one part water works pretty well, but a 50/50 mix makes the supply of WD-40 last longer. You shake it up and you know you've got the ratio right when the result is kind of foamy & white. Bling Juice is really good at cutting through road tar, grease and drive-train gunk.
WD-40 Multi-Use product is a versatile solution for use at home, in a garage, or a factory. It's a complex blend of lubricating oils, performance additives, surfactants and solvents which combine to deliver lubrication, water displacement, cleaning and rust protection on various metal surfaces.
WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th formula. That's the name straight out of the lab book used by the chemist who developed the product. The first company to use WD-40 Multi-Use Product commercially was Convair, an aerospace contractor, to protect the outer skin of the Atlas Missile from rust and corrosion.
Next, shake your can of WD-40 well and spray it directly onto the toilet bowl's stains. Let the lubricant sit for a minute (or five) and afterward, using a circular motion, scrub the stains away with a toilet brush. You may need to repeat this step a few times to remove the stains completely, particularly older stains.
As a Color Enhancer
There are some car owners who use WD-40 as a wax – which amplifies the luster of paint. When it's sprayed on top of paint with a clear coat, the paraffins in the solution produce a shiny hue – which can replicate the shine you get from a fresh coat of wax.
WD-40 Company does not recommend the use of WD-40® for medical purposes and knows no reason why WD-40 would be effective for arthritis pain relief. WD-40 contains petroleum distillates and should be handled with the same precautions for any product containing this type of material.
Using WD-40:
If inserting a plumber's snake seems like a risky option, and your problem is more than what a plunger can solve, adding a cleaning agent like WD-40 is always a good idea. The good part about using WD-40 is that it gets right under the build-up and muck, and breaks it down, which helps clear the drain.
Simply pour a kettle of almost boiling water into the bowl, follow up with 250ml of citric acid, and leave it for some hours – preferably overnight. The next day, scrub and flush. What's good for those caked-on pots and pans after cooking dinner is also good for removing a brown stain on the bottom of the toilet bowl.
While it can be put to a number of helpful uses around the home, WD 40 is particularly good at softening rust and limescale deposits in the toilet (and bathroom). All you have to do is spray it on the desired section of the toilet, wait a few minutes, then scrub it away with a toilet brush.
WD-40® Multi-Use Product is great when it comes to mirror cleaning and water spot removal. It is easy to use and all you have to do is spray the liquid on to the affected area and wipe it clean with a clean cloth. It will leave your glass windows and mirrors sparkling clean and as good as new.