One thing you'll need is some elbow grease. Get yourself a scrubbing brush with a handle and a thinner brush for scrubbing grout and corners.
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A scrub brush and borax, done
What kind of surfaces do you have? For example, I've found CLR is good for grout and tiles, while a basic bleach-based spray is good for porcelain and fiberglass. You can also mix in an ammonia-based cleaner if you want to recreate the Third Battle of Ypres in your bathroom.
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For toilet bowl cleaner, you want to make sure it has the 'quality seal' on the packaging. It looks like this.
Generally, if you have hard water and a lot of issues with limescale, you will need an acidic cleaner. These are usually advertised accordingly. Bleach won't help with limescale and is usually not necessary. It's also very dangerous to mix bleach with acidic cleaners.
Toilet and drains: bleach Discoloured/mouldy grout: bleach Soap scum, general grime: citric/lactic acid based cleaners Floor: disinfectant floor cleaners
50% or greater concentration of hydrochloric acid, wearing a hazmat suit, spray with standard spray bottle on everything disgusting and let it sit, wash thoroughly with sodium hydroxide to neutralize any remaining acid.
Cap. Max concentration of hydrochloric acid you can buy is 38%, more than that won't dissolve in water and just will bubble out. Sodium hydroxide isn't good idea for neutralization either, because both are corrosive. Some carbonate like baking soda would be better. You can do better than that
Instead of that, some elbow grease and cleaning product with mild abrasive should do the job, and where that fails, for colorful (organic) stains bleach will work, and vinegar or up to 10% hydrochloric acid for limescale (white to orange, depending on how rusty your pipes are). Do not mix them together
Steam cleaner.
This seems like a great question for an "ask home economics" community. Is there one like that already?