There's nothing worse than a sparkling clean bathroom being ruined by yellow toilet seat stains. No matter how hard you scrub, toilet seat stains sometimes don't budge. Cleaning products, body oils, makeup, limescale and moisturisers can cause yellow stains to appear on toilet seats. One person who was struggling with yellow toilet seat stains was Sylvia Lilian.

She posted on the group, 'Mrs Hinch Cleaning Tips' asking for help. She wrote: "I want to get rid of yellow staining on my white toilet seat. What should I use?" The post was inundated with responses with some social media users suggesting that bleach makes the stains "worse".

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Chris Edwards said, "Don't use bleach, it will make it worse."

Julie Alcock replied: "Brand new toilet and wiped with bleach, now it goes yellow all the time."

Bleach can cause toilet seats to turn yellow because chlorine bleach can react with the surface of the toilet seat, causing the colour to turn from white to yellow.

To remove the stains, the majority of the comments suggested using white vinegar either by itself or with baking soda.