If there's one thing that no one wants to clean, it's the toilet. For obvious reasons, the toilet seems like it would be the germiest item in the house, but it's actually not. It's not even the germiest item in the bathroom. That title belongs to the toothbrush holder. According to an NSF study , the toothbrush holder is the third germiest item in the house (behind dish sponges and the kitchen sink), and 27% of toothbrush holders were found to contain coliform, a family of bacteria that includes Salmonella and E. coli and is an indicator of potential fecal contamination. Pretty gross.
"The smells that I've encountered from cleaning these cups for years is sometimes more than I could handle..." the user wrote. "Please all, go take a whiff of your toothbrush holder cups for me a