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