The shower screen is the job everybody puts off. It takes about ninety seconds.
Six things an XXL microfibre cloth gets right that a roll of paper towel and a spray bottle got wrong — and one honest note before the price.
Almost every Australian bathroom has the same problem in the same place. Water dries on the glass, the minerals in it stay behind, and after a few months the shower screen has gone cloudy in a way that no amount of spray seems to shift. Same on the tapware. Same on the splashback behind the sink.
Most people respond by buying a stronger chemical, which is the wrong end of the problem. What's actually there is dried mineral, and what removes it is the right cloth and a bit of water — not something harsher.
KoalaCloth is 60 by 40 centimetres of microfibre, which is roughly four times the size of the cloths most people are using. Here are six things it gets right.
It takes the water off glass without leaving streaks
This is the one that changes how a bathroom looks. A paper towel pushes water around and leaves lint behind; a tea towel smears it. Microfibre lifts the water off the surface rather than spreading it, so the glass dries clear instead of drying spotted. Run it over the screen after the last shower of the morning and the deposits never get a chance to build up in the first place — which is the whole trick, and why people who do it stop needing to scrub at all.
"Absolutely love my KoalaCloth. It's soft, comfortable and actually feels like something I'll get plenty of use out of. Definitely one of those purchases you end up wondering how you lived without."
Water spots and scale come off without scrubbing
Microfibre works mechanically rather than chemically — the fibres are split fine enough to get under mineral deposits and lift them, instead of you trying to dissolve them with something caustic. On taps, tiles and glass that means wiping rather than scrubbing, and it means you're not filling a small bathroom with fumes to do it. It's also why the cloth does most of its work with plain water.
"I bought one to see what the fuss was about and now I'm ordering another. The quality is great and it makes everyday cleaning so much easier. Very happy with it!"
It holds a serious amount of water, so it replaces the roll
This is where the paper towel habit actually ends. A cloth this size soaks up a spilled glass of water in one go, wrings out, and keeps going — where you'd have gone through half a roll and still had a wet bench. Over a year that's a real number in the shopping trolley, and one less thing to remember at the supermarket. It's the ordinary reason people end up buying more of them rather than any grand environmental argument.
"KoalaCloth has become a permanent fixture in our home. It's handy, easy to use and does exactly what I need it to. No complaints from me!"
Soft enough for the things you're normally nervous about
Mirrors, screens, spectacles, stainless steel, the glass on a framed photograph — the surfaces where you hesitate before touching them with anything. Microfibre is soft enough not to mark them and fine enough to leave no lint behind, which is why it's the standard for camera lenses and eyewear. In practice that means one cloth handles the bathroom, the TV screen and the car windows without you keeping three separate things under the sink.
"Such a simple little thing, but I use mine constantly. It feels well made, washes up nicely and has held up really well. I'm impressed."
The XXL size is the reason it's quick
Sixty by forty centimetres sounds like a detail until you use one. A standard cloth means folding to a clean face every few passes and rinsing constantly; this size gives you eight or nine clean faces before you need to think about it, so a shower screen is one continuous job rather than a stop-start one. It's also large enough to do a car windscreen, dry a dog, or cover the whole bonnet in a couple of sweeps.
"I can see why it's an Aussie favourite now. Really practical, really easy to use and the quality is better than I expected. I'll definitely be getting more."
Nobody buys one, and there's a reason for that
Once one of these is in the house, it ends up wherever it was last used and you want another for the kitchen. That's why they're sold in packs rather than singly, and why the free-cloth bundles work out the way they do. The sensible approach is one for glass and mirrors, one for the kitchen bench, one for the car, and a spare in the wash — which is exactly the three-plus-three.
- 2 + 1 free3 cloths · $79.95$26.65 each
- 3 + 3 free6 cloths · $109.95$18.32 each — bestseller
- 8 + 4 free12 cloths · $189.95$15.83 each — best value
One honest note before the price
Wash them without fabric softener. That's the one thing that matters, and it's the reason most people's microfibre stops working after a few months. Softener leaves a coating on the fibres that fills in the split ends doing the actual work, and once that happens the cloth smears instead of lifting. Warm wash, normal detergent, no softener, no fabric conditioner in the dryer sheet either — do that and they last for years. Ignore it and you'll wonder why the magic wore off.
The other thing: this is a cleaning cloth, not a cleaning product. It won't dissolve soap scum that's been building for five years — for that first deep clean you'll still want a proper bathroom cleaner. What it does is keep the surface from getting back to that state, which is the part that saves you the weekend.
KoalaCloth, against what's under your sink now
Most homes are running a roll of paper towel, a spray bottle and a tea towel that's seen better days. Here's the difference, laid out plainly.
- Pushes water around and leaves lint behind
- Half a roll for one spilled glass of water
- Streaks on glass no matter what you spray
- Something you have to keep re-buying
- Too small, so you're folding and rinsing constantly
- Lifts water off the surface — glass dries clear
- Soaks up, wrings out, keeps going
- Takes water spots and scale off without scrubbing
- Washes and comes back, for years
- 60 × 40cm — a shower screen in one pass
About the price
The packs start at $79.95 for three cloths and run to $189.95 for twelve, and the free-cloth bundles are what make the per-cloth price fall — $26.65 each at the smallest, $15.83 each at the largest. Most people take the three-plus-three, because six is the number that covers a house without any of them going missing.
The sum worth doing is against paper towel. If a household gets through a roll a fortnight, that's the cost of the bestseller pack in about a year — and the cloths are still there at the end of it.
If your shower screen has gone cloudy and you have been meaning to deal with it since winter, this is the ninety seconds a day that fixes it.
— The team at Cute Home
KOALACLOTH — THE AUSSIE FAVOURITE XXL
- XXL 60 × 40cm microfibre — a shower screen in one pass
- Streak-free on glass, tiles, mirrors and taps
- Lifts water spots and scale without scrubbing
- Safe on screens, stainless steel and delicate surfaces
- Highly absorbent — replaces the paper towel roll
- 2+1 free $79.95 · 3+3 free $109.95 · 8+4 free $189.95
- Free Australia-wide delivery · 30-day money-back guarantee
Care. Machine wash warm with normal detergent. No fabric softener and no dryer sheets — softener coats the fibres and stops microfibre working. Wash separately from lint-heavy items such as towels.
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