DIY Carpet Stain Remover

Do you have spots on your carpet that you just cannot seem to get rid of no matter what you do? I am sure many of you will say yes and I used to as well!

DIY Carpet Stain Remover

Until a friend of me told mine about a pin on Pinterest (of course, right?)В Now time out from carpet stains.

One of my many joys in life is finding other uses for items I have on hand. For example, using vinegar for multiple cleaning products, or usingВ conditionerВ for my hair and to make fabric softener. This В awesome carpet stain remover does just this!!

Ok done blabbing – back to carpet stains!

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

Hydrogen Peroxide
Blue Dawn Dishsoap
Old Toothbrush
Washcloth
Cleaning Gloves (optional)

The original pin called for 1 cup of Hydrogen Peroxide В and a “few” drops of blue Dawn Dishsoap mixed together… well what’s a few? I put about 4 drops into the hydrogen peroxide and mixed it together with the old toothbrush.

Ok now we are all mixed and ready go!

DIY Carpet Stain Remover

Start scrubbing! You will see it start working almost immediately. It took me less than 2 minutes to get this stain up out of my carpet. Though I wish I could tell you what it is, I can’t. However, whatever it was, it was not coming up with a steam cleaner, with some expensive carpet stain remover I purchased В from Bed, Bath & Beyond, or with other store bought cleaners.

And TADA:

DIY Carpet Stain Remover

Yes — it is gone! So after messing around and getting a few other odd and end spots off my carpet .. I decided to put this DIY carpet stain remover to the test!

Do you have В any fingernail polish stains in your carpet? Ha .. you must wonder what my house looks like inside! DIY Carpet Stain Remover

Anyhow, one day while daddy was in charge of the girls and mommy was gone .. they decided they would paint their nails, by themselves. Well, they heard daddy coming towards their room and they spilled half a bottle of RED fingernail polish on their carpet!!!! I have tried everything over the past two months to get this stuff out and it wasn’t going anywhere. В So I decided to give this a shot.

DIY Carpet Stain Remover



Homemade Carpet Stain Remover…NO Scrubbing Needed!

DIY Carpet Stain Remover

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OK…I realize it’s Christmas Eve…and I really should be posting something about food or parties or family or…I don’t know…something FESTIVE! В If that’s what you were expecting to read about today…my apologies. I’m just too excited about my new carpet cleaning discovery that I simply HAD to post this…TODAY. 🙂

It started with this post about making your own homemade version of “Shout” laundry stain remover.  A couple of people asked if they could use it on their carpet stains too.  I didn’t know the answer to that because I’d never thought to try it…but was definitely going to give it a go.

That was before this comment was posted by Tammie:

DIY Carpet Stain Remover

Let me let you in on a little secret about me (ok it’s not really a secret…maybe a really badly-kept one!). I am a naturally CURIOUS, IMPATIENT, AND OBSESSIVE person (which would explain a lot about my choice of a career in TV news), and I simply can’t read something like that and not give it a try myself, immediately!
So….instead of finishing up the 101 things I still had to do before my Christmas Eve dinner party I was hosting in a matter of hours….I was sitting on the floor with my steam iron, a bottle of ammonia and water and several white towels!

(Don’t ask about the carpet color…it came with the house when we bought it. My best guess is that when the builders of the house originally put the wall-to-wall berber carpet in…they were a smidge short and just grabbed whatever was on sale in the remnant department of the carpeting store to finish up this basement bedroom.)

All I had to go on were the two lines written in that comment above….but honestly...that’s all you need to know.  I filled an empty spray bottle with 1 part ammonia & 1 part HOT water, sprayed it LIBERALLY on the stain, laid the clean white towel on top of it and started ironing away!  Within literally SECONDS…this is what the WHITE towel looked like.

DIY Carpet Stain Remover

I repeated the process maybe two more times….and the stain was GONE.  A stain that has been there for I don’t even remember how long! Gone!  G O N E!

DIY Carpet Stain Remover

My 16 year old son was helping me and he and I were AMAZED!  We could hardly believe our eyes. It was so easy and quick and there wasn’t even any scrubbing involved.  Who would have ever thought to use a steam iron and a towel to draw the stain up out of the carpet? Well, probably some of you…but not me! lol.  Simply brilliant.

This smashing success spurred me on to tackle the MUCH bigger stain in the same room. Another stain I have NO idea how long it’s been there or even HOW it got there. And once again….success at getting out MOST of the stain.  If I didn’t have a dinner party deadline pressing on me….I would have probably kept at it all night long….but I had to “call the game” after about an hour because I was running out of time to get everything done.  But as you can see by THIS before and after…the miracle carpet cleaner was definitely doing the job!

DIY Carpet Stain Remover

Just look at the PILE of white towels I went through before I called it a night! В That was a serious stain!

DIY Carpet Stain Remover

Since most of your stains will probably be more like the first stain I showed you. I am MORE than confident in saying……TRY IT!!!В It truly is amazing stuff! Can’t wait to try it on more stains! 🙂