Add the lavender oil and the salt to the spray bottle.
Tide and vinegar carpet cleaner.
Clean your carpet with your steam cleaner with one scoop of oxiclean in the hot water.
Homemade carpet cleaning solution with fabric softener.
For stains and using the peroxide too dab and gently rub the area.
Then either pretreat the stains by spraying the vinegar and water solution or go straight for the bissell.
Mix the vinegar and water in a glass spray bottle.
Put the cap back on and thoroughly shake.
Pour 1 capful of your regular laundry detergent into the canister along with 1 2 cup white vinegar if you wish to add a disinfecting element.
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The water hydrates the area while the vinegar goes to work devouring the stain.
Spray the solution liberally on the carpet or use it for cleaning an area rug without a carpet cleaner.
Although vinegar is an eco friendly and useful substance it s not appropriate for cleaning your carpet.
It s super cheap to make and the fabric softener leaves your carpet nice and soft as well.
With allergies in the house and four dogs as well this has proven to be a great inexpensive solution.
You can use a quart jar a gallon jar or a container that will help you keep track.
Remove the fluid canister from a steam cleaning unit.
Get a bucket of soapy water and a scrub brush and scrub the spots that didn t come up.
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The creator of this homemade carpet cleaner uses it in her bissell machine and loves it.
Just mix it as you would the regular cleaning solution and when the carpet dries there will be no more smell from the vinegar.
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For every quart of water put in the steam cleaner add one tablespoon of laundry.
I rinse one time with just hot.
This works great on most stains.
2 tablespoons liquid tide laundry detergent.
Add water to the fluid canister.
Pour water into the steam cleaner up to the fill line.
To maximize the use of vinegar in a bissell carpet cleaner sprinkle baking soda over your carpet first.
You can even sweep it over the pile to help it fall deeper into the carpet where the stubborn dirt and grime is.
Rinse your carpet with the steam cleaner.
Vinegar will also loosen and lift dirt from surfaces.
Using vinegar to clean carpet is not effective.