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patrice

(47,992 posts)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 05:27 PM Nov 2012

Hydrogen peroxide & baking soda does pretty good on carpet stains. Make a paste.

Apply. Let it dry hard. Chip off and vacuum.

slight bleaching on my nylon carpet, so you'd probably better test this.

Works better than anything I've tried, even on old stains.

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Hydrogen peroxide & baking soda does pretty good on carpet stains. Make a paste. (Original Post) patrice Nov 2012 OP
If it is a biological stain, go to the pet store applegrove Nov 2012 #1
I have used several different types of the enzyme treatments on older stains, that's primarily patrice Nov 2012 #3
I have used hydrogen peroxide alone Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #2
Club soda is amazing! Pour and blot, pour and blot. jillan Jan 2013 #4

applegrove

(123,131 posts)
1. If it is a biological stain, go to the pet store
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:11 PM
Nov 2012

and get some Nature‘s Miracle spray. It has enzymes that makes stains dissapear. Really amazing!

patrice

(47,992 posts)
3. I have used several different types of the enzyme treatments on older stains, that's primarily
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:59 PM
Nov 2012

what I'm talking about here. Already been treated with enzymes so it doesn't smell. Odorless old shadows of previous accidents (old dogs) that aren't going to react to enzymes anymore, because they've already been treated that way at least three times with my Bissel "steam" carpet cleaner and rug doctor products for pets. These really are just the thin ghosts of things that happened a long time ago and haven't been smelly for a few years, but there's still a light stain that this treatment helps with considerably after all of the other stuff, still left an odorless stain you can see on the carpet. This works.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
2. I have used hydrogen peroxide alone
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:47 PM
Nov 2012

for stains and it has worked for anything biological. No chipping. But if it doesn't work, I will try adding baking soda.

I even had a neighbor who had a horrible nose bleed and had a huge blood stain on her carpet. She had tried washing it out and it didn't work. We poured hydrogen peroxide on it, let it bubble, toweled it up, and repeated. It cleaned everything up. In fact, for blood stains, this is all I ever use.

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