Tough Carpet Stains

I wanted to share my secret to nice clean cream carpets. It will come as no surprise to anyone that has used it , and honestly who hasn't, its OxiClean. But the application is the secret here.
Let me go back a few years...
My husband has a knack for making a mess right as I'm headed to a funeral. Tears his pants, breaks something and in this particular case, decides that I'm wrong and its fine to use shoe polish in the house. Well the top flies off of the liquid polish and there is a huge black stain on my cream carpet. Not in the corner or by the door, right in the middle of the room.  I was already in tears over the loss of my grandfather but now I was in tears over my less that one year old carpet.
What should you do when you get a stain- act fast. What cant you do when you are heading to your grandfathers funeral? Stop to clean your carpet. So I used paper towels to soak up some of the excess and I had to leave the stain to set.
In the following days I tried all the conventional carpet cleaners, I shampooed, I used resolve, Woolite, I used head and shoulders (another of my go to cleaners). I tried everything, nothing took it out. I was about ready to call the carpet company to get it replaced when my uncle suggested OxiClean, which I had tried but not the way he suggested.

He told me to make a small bucket/bowl of hot water. Like as hot as my faucet would get it. then add double the OxiClean to the amount of water as suggested on the OxiCleanbox. With a scrub brush liberally apply the mixture to the stain and scrub with all your might, in every direction (don't just go left to right or up or down.) It takes a lot of elbow grease, so be ready. Periodically with a rag/ old towel rub the spot to get the excess water/dirt/stain source out of the carpet. Continue until stain in no longer apparent. Then use a clean rag/towel to rub the spot of excess water. Let dry. Then vacuum.

Let me tell you - this works! It took black shoe polish out of cream carpet. It takes set pet stains out. Pizza grease from my husbands friends when watching football on our big screen tv. You name it, it takes it out.

So while this is probably a cleaner you have worked with before, I hope this technique helps keep your carpets looking great for years to come.

*I have no relationship with OxiClean, this is not a sponsored post.