Home and garden - Tips in getting rid of toilet bowl stains. Sometimes, getting rid of the stubborn stains on the toilet bowl can be a staggeringly hard. To achieve that stainless sparkle, you could spend a day of your life with conventional cleaning, get a new toilet bowl or just follow any of these simple tips which requires no ready-made chemical cleaners. 1. Use three cups of vinegar into the toilet bowl and scrub stains using a toilet brush. 2. Place a half a cup of dry bleach powder into the toilet bowl and let it sit there for a couple of hours. 3.Sprinkle borax powder directly on the stains and rub the stains in a rigorous way using the toilet brush. Flush the toilet bowl after half an hour. 4.Take 1 to 2 cups of baking soda. Gradually add just enough vinegar to make a paste. Using a pair of rubber gloves, apply the paste to the hard water stains and after 10 minutes wash the bowl. Pro Tip: Once your desired level of sparkle has been achieved after you are done following one of the above steps, you might want to switch off your camera's flash before you snap pictures of your squeaky clean bowl. The glare from the flash can result in bleached pictures that make bad uploads on social media. Happy cleaning!