I assume you mean a wooden seat with a stained finish. I had one in my last house - for about a week. I quickly replaced it with and enameled seat. The oak seat kind of grossed me out.

Soap and water are anti-bacterial. Clean your toilet seat with any good cleaner. Immediately rinse with clean water and wipe dry.

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=1421607278&MC=1&SKU=14406689&RN=716
Here is the link -- forgot it.

It's funny what the human mind can do. Everyone is grossed out by the amount of bacteria on a toilet seat yet according to the experts who recently appeared on the Dr.Phill show, they found through a very in depth study that in 93 out of 100 homes there was more bacteria on the kitchen counter tops than what was on the toilet seats.

It is not the bacteria that scares me -- it is the skid marks on the back of the seats that grosses me out.

lazypup, I remember also that Mythbusters found that the toilet *seat* was the cleanest place in the house, actually. The floor in front of the toilet: completely different matter. And yes, the kitchen counter, too.

I still don't like wooden toilet seats.

How do you clean a wooden toilet seat?

Belt sander.

:-)

We have wooden seats on both of our toilets; one is stained oak and one is a piano like finish (meaning kinda shiny black) on some sort of wood (oak?). Both are easy to clean with a damp rag and a little dish soap. We use Bon Ami on the porcelain but not on the seats, too scratchy for wood IMO. However, being that I've been on these forums for several years now, I feel compelled to note that we are neither neat freaks nor germophobes, so YMMV.

sanydponder

Actually, the chemical composition of wood is strongly anti-bacterial. I do realize that the wood has a finish on it. That finish should not be more prone to bacteria than the finish on other types of seats. I have a big slab of Teflon 3/4 thick that was donated to me. My idea was that it would make a wonderful kitchen cutting board. Then I saw test results that showed that wooden boards had much lower bacteria counts that any other type of cutting board. Except for the possibility of splinters, I see no problem with wooden seats. Our outhouses, which we used until the mid-50's, had unfinished wood seats. We scrubbed them once a week with (heated on a woodstove) boiling water.

Here is a link that might be useful: Look, listen.

I have to agree with the statement about skid marks, but on the other hand, want to see me go ballistic, let me walk in the kitchen and find someone sitting on a counter top!