I rinse one time with just hot.
Tide and vinegar carpet cleaner.
Vinegar will also loosen and lift dirt from surfaces.
2 tablespoons liquid tide laundry detergent.
With allergies in the house and four dogs as well this has proven to be a great inexpensive solution.
How do you use laundry detergent in a steam cleaner.
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.
1 4 cup awesome cleaner dollar store brand.
Add water to the fluid canister.
Using vinegar to clean carpet is not effective.
You want to make sure to not rub the stain in.
For stains and using the peroxide too dab and gently rub the area.
For every quart of water put in the steam cleaner add one tablespoon of laundry.
Pour water into the steam cleaner up to the fill line.
Spray the solution liberally on the carpet or use it for cleaning an area rug without a carpet cleaner.
Mix the vinegar and water in a glass spray bottle.
Put the cap back on and thoroughly shake.
The creator of this homemade carpet cleaner uses it in her bissell machine and loves it.
Remove the fluid canister from a steam cleaning unit.
To maximize the use of vinegar in a bissell carpet cleaner sprinkle baking soda over your carpet first.
Clean your carpet with your steam cleaner with one scoop of oxiclean in the hot water.
Just mix it as you would the regular cleaning solution and when the carpet dries there will be no more smell from the vinegar.
Get a bucket of soapy water and a scrub brush and scrub the spots that didn t come up.
After you steam clean.
Don t believe everything you read online.
It s super cheap to make and the fabric softener leaves your carpet nice and soft as well.
Add the lavender oil and the salt to the spray bottle.
You can even sweep it over the pile to help it fall deeper into the carpet where the stubborn dirt and grime is.
Homemade carpet cleaning solution with fabric softener.
If just using the vinegar baking soda to refresh carpet you can scrub it.
Then either pretreat the stains by spraying the vinegar and water solution or go straight for the bissell.
You can use a quart jar a gallon jar or a container that will help you keep track.
Water plus vinegar is a complementing combination.
This works great on most stains.
Rinse your carpet with the steam cleaner.