How to Clean a Carpet with Baking Soda: An Easy Way to Remove Dirt and Unpleasant Odor

30.01.2024 21:30

When you need to refresh your carpet, but don’t want to spend too much time and effort on it, you should use this simple life hack.

First, you need to vacuum the pile, and then you need to make a simple mixture of soda and salt.

This composition should be evenly distributed over the carpet, and then lightly rubbed into the pile using a brush.

After half an hour, you need to go over the surface with a damp broom.

Once the carpet is dry, it should be vacuumed again to remove loose components.

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This penny mixture perfectly absorbs odors, cleans from dirt, and disinfects.

This product is best suited for light-colored carpets. There is a risk that white marks from the soda and salt mixture may remain on a dark carpet.

There is another way to use baking soda when cleaning carpets in the house.

To do this, you only need to pour 2 tablespoons of the bulk product into a liter of water, and then spray the solution onto the pile. As soon as the carpet dries, it should be vacuumed.

Earlier we talked about how to choose a carpet for the bathroom.

Olga Kotova Author: Olga Kotova Internet resource editor