To use it, just apply it with a sponge, leave it for a few minutes, wipe it off with water and then rinse. You can also submerge clogged shower heads in the remover for 30 minutes and then scrub with a brush. Pros For a real taste of home, browse our Puddings and Desserts section and get tempted by all of the delicious food that you could have delivered to your door. Remember Angel Delight? Nothing could taste more nostalgic than this lovely whipped dessert and we sell so many different flavours! Ambrosia Devon Custard is another family favourite along with Ambrosia Semolina, Ambrosia Creamed Rice, Ambrosia Rice Pudding and Ambrosia Tapioca (remember that from school lunches?!). For that special occasion you will probably do what we do in the UK and go to your higher end supermarket to get that lovely treat to make your day. We recommend the fabulous Marks and Spencer Salted Caramel Sauce to add that special something to your ice cream or their White Chocolate Fudge Sauce - a real favourite of our grandchildren! Waitrose too can offer you those sweet treats - try their Seriously Chocolatey Dipping Sauce which is simply heavenly! To remove limescale from your toilet, you need to use vinegar. Pour vinegar (straight from the bottle) into the toilet bowl and leave it to sit for three hours or longer. Then scrub the bowl with a toilet brush to wipe off the limescale residue and flush. Taps Cillit Bang uses the phrase ‘Naturally Powerful’ to indicate that this product is made from only natural ingredients and indeed there is a statement on the front label of the bottle at the bottom that assures us of ‘100% naturally derived ingredients’. The best way to remove limescale is to let the products cut through the chalky deposits, so you don’t need to scrape them. Here’s how you do it:

All ingredients are plant-based and biodegradable – its main ingredient is citric acid – which means it’s safe to use on kettles and coffee makers, as well as showers, loos and draining boards. Spraying plenty of the foam onto the doors, we then used a Minky Cloth Pad to spread the foam all over the glass and left it for the recommended 5 minutes. Phosphoric acid is found in fertilisers and water softeners, and is particularly useful at cleaning metals -- it is widely used as an industrial metal cleaner. This can be seen in some Cillit Bang ads, in which an old coin is rendered shiny.

Now, I don’t know about you but I’d rather put lemons to a better use – maybe into some delicious Lemon Marmalade or a tempting Lemon Drizzle Cake! You can use this cleaner in various places around your home as it’s suitable for ceramic basins and toilets, acrylic baths and showers, tiles, plastic, chrome and stainless steel and grout. Pros

Your taps will get the chance to soak, and the limescale will vanish or loosen enough for you to chip it away. Mumsnet users rate the Tap Head Cleaners because they’re easy to use, easy to clean and come with a three-year guarantee. Pros After the recommended 5 minutes the foam was wiped away with just a damp cloth and after a buff with a dry cloth we were really impressed – the taps were absolutely gleaming – sparkling like new with not a hint of the watermarks at all. Test Number Two Stardrops’ The Pink Stuff Paste is suitable for kitchen and bathroom limescale removal and works on surfaces such as ceramic tiles, showers, glass, sinks, saucepans, outdoor furniture, and paintwork. So we really wanted to challenge Naturally Powerful Cillit Bang and test how good it really is at removing a build up of hard limescale, which after all is what it says it can do with only natural ingredients.

5. Best limescale remover for taps: Limey Standard Tap Head Cleaner

Flat surfaces are much easier to remove limescale from, which is why baths, showers, sinks and tiles will only need some lemon juice or vinegar applied and some scrubbing on your part. You expect a product that says it will remove limescale to do just that and in all of our tests it did do a very good job. Significant build up of limescale will require a few treatments to get rid of it altogether but I think any non-naturally derived product would be the same.

As you can see in the photos there is a significant limescale build up around the rim of the kettle and inside the spout so we concentrated on these two areas. It’s almost impossible to see a Cillit Bang product without uttering their slogan “Bang! And the dirt is gone!” but that’s exactly what happens when you use their limescale remover. We like that the bottle is made from 100% recycled plastic and that Viakal is safe to use (as long as you don’t mix it with bleach) as it’s free from ammonia, bleach and chlorine. Lemon method: Cut a lemon in half and rub the flesh side onto the limescale-affected part of the taps. Again, leave it to sit for 30 minutes and then scrub it with a sponge to remove the limescale residue. Shower heads All natural ingredients – this is the main selling point of this product and it is nice to have something that is 100% naturally derived from a big name company and will be easy to find in supermarketsNot only is this versatile paste budget-friendly, but it also uses 99% natural ingredients, is non-toxic and suitable for vegans. However, you need to be careful when applying this formula to glass, plastic, ceramic, acrylic, steel and ceramic hobs as it may scratch the surface if you apply too much pressure. We recommend you do a patch test first. For appliances like washing machines and kettles, you can’t go wrong with Oust Powerful All-Purpose Descaler. How we chose our recommendations If the limescale is still there, you can either use the rougher side of the pad or use bicarbonate of soda to do the work for you. Bicarb is a natural abrasive, which means when you apply it to your glass with a damp cloth and wipe it away with a dry one, it should remove any remaining limescale stains.

All good then, this product has ‘All of the Cillit Bang expertise united with concentrated star ingredients from natural origins for cleaning that is both efficient and more responsible’. Efficiency is at the heart of this limescale remover as it only takes a couple of minutes to work. However, if your limescale is particularly stubborn, spray and leave it for 10 minutes, then rinse and wipe away. Pros The good news is that it only takes five minutes to work, and you can use it on a multitude of surfaces, including toilets, sinks, bathtubs, showers, tiles, glass, and stainless steel taps.What descaler are you using? Oust sachets are good. Just re-boil the kettle when the water stops fizzing and repeat until the scale has gone. I only quarter fill the kettle before adding the oust.” (Recommended by Mumsnet user MaisyMary77) During our research, we came across several reviewers who said they had stopped buying Cillit Bang because of the strong chemical smell, but tried the miraculous product once again and found that the new formula smelled fresher and cleaner than before.