Pour one cup of baking soda into the toilet bowl. Try to pour it directly into the drain hole at the bottom. If the water is standing, the baking soda will clump up initially, which is normal.
Wait a few minutes after pouring the hot water. Watch the water level. If it drains naturally, you have successfully cleared the clog. Flush the toilet once to ensure everything is moving freely. baking soda vinegar unclog toilet
The famous fizz is a neutralization reaction: sodium bicarbonate (a base) reacts with acetic acid (in vinegar) to produce sodium acetate, water, and carbon dioxide gas. The bubbling is the gas escaping. While the effervescence can agitate loose debris on a flat surface, inside a water-filled toilet bowl, that gas is not under pressure. It simply bubbles up and pops at the surface, releasing its energy into the air. There is no concentrated blast to push the clog through the trap, nor is the resulting liquid a solvent capable of dissolving toilet paper. In fact, the reaction creates mostly water, which merely adds to the volume already in the bowl, risking an overflow. As chemist and science communicator Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim aptly puts it, “The fizz looks energetic, but it’s the chemical equivalent of a gentle sigh. It will not move a mountain of wet tissue.” Pour one cup of baking soda into the toilet bowl