Carrara marble has been used since the time of ancient rome and it was called the luni marble.
Carrara marble toothpaste.
If your budget can tolerate it buying a commercial neutral ph marble cleaner probably is an excellent investment to clean these beautiful stone countertops most safely one that doesn t risk scratching or etching from a homemade cleaner.
The marble institute of america or mia advises against using vinegar lemon juice or other cleaners containing acid on marble including bleach.
Experts instead recommend only mild soap and water.
You treasure your gorgeous marble countertops in your kitchen or bathroom.
In the 17th and 18th centuries the marble quarries were monitored by the cybo and malaspina families who ruled over massa and carrara.
But cleaning them requires more care than other surfaces.
The family created the office of marble in 1564 to regulate the marble mining industry.
Toothpaste shaving cream cologne and other bathroom products are often acidic or alkaline and can damage marble countertops and tile by etching chemically burning the surface.
Marble is much less likely to etch in a bathroom because usually you don t have too many acids in there.
Marble will etch because it is made of calcium carbonate which will react with acids and sometimes alkalines.
Regional laws state that the quarries cannot principally be used to produce debris yet according to residents and environmentalists it s exactly what s happening in certain cases.
What happens is the toothpaste or mouthwash etc.
I say this but i must mention that the limestone in my own powder bath etched.
Someone had dripped a couple of globs of bath body works liquid soap on my seagrass limestone countertop and i didn t notice it until the next day.
The city of massa in particular saw much of its plan.
Carrara s marble is not used primarily for art or architecture anymore it is literally squeezed from a tube of toothpaste.