How do I get stains/limescale off my bathtub? Nothing seems to work.

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Scrub free is magical on soap scum. CLR (which smells awful to me) cleans limescale well. When I moved into my new house I had lines in my toilette where the water runs and like a ring around where the water sits, and neither of these cured it, which had never happened to me. I had always been able to get everything to sparkle. One day I hired Merry Maids to clean. and one of the women got most of it out with a pumice stone. I was thrilled.

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