How to Clean a Shower Head Keep your shower head flowing freely by removing mineral deposits like limescale with these simple cleaning steps. You'll be surprised by how much buildup natural shower-cleaning ingredients like vinegar and baking soda can remove. If your shower head is spraying every which way or not providing a consistent water pressure, chances are it could use a good cleaning. Shower heads often spray unevenly because their tiny holes have gotten plugged with mineral deposits. In order for water to flow freely, you need to remove these deposits. Cleaning your shower head is also good for your family's health. Wet environments like the one inside a shower head are breeding grounds for bacteria. In fact, a  recent study by researchers  at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences found that residential shower heads often contain abundant amounts of Mycobacterium—a bacteria known to cause lung disease—growing in t...