How to Remove a Mustard Stain from Carpet
While eating hot dogs or when a lot of guests come into your party, mustard sauce usually fell into your carpet. It makes you even angrier if your carpeting is of light colours and the stain left behind gives a really dirty outlook. Adding further to your misery, the mustard stain is very hard to remove.
Mustard gets its yellow colour due to its component, spice turmeric. This component is easily absorbed into the carpet fibres. Unlike aced-based stains, spice turmeric is absorbed differently into carpet and thus requires different method of removing its stains.
Things Required:
– Towels
– Paper towels
– Dish washing detergent
– Vacuum
– Hydrogen peroxide
– Spatula
– Steam iron
Instructions
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1
Blot the mustard stain
First of all you need to blot the mustard stain on your carpet. You can do this with the help from paper towels or light coloured towels.
Remember not to wipe the stain as it will spread the mustard and more carpet fibres will absorb it. -
2
Mix alkaline cleaning agent with water
Next you need to mix any alkaline cleaning agent with two parts of water. You can use any dish washing detergent for this step.
After mixing the ingredients, dunk a towel in it and then put it on the stain. Later wash the stain with cool water and push the towel on it again. Vacuum it afterwards so that carpet fibres can come back to its original shape.
In case the mustard stain fails to say goodbye, skip vacuuming and go to the next step. -
3
Make paste from sodium carbonate products and apply
Formulate a paste by mixing any sodium carbonate product e.g. hydrogen peroxide with dish washing detergent. Use a spatula to apply the paste on the stained-area.
Mix about one part of the sodium carbonate product to three parts of the dish washing detergent. -
4
Steaming the mixture
Put a low heated iron on the paste in order to start the chemical reaction. Heat the mixture for almost half a minute before the chemicals activate. -
5
Lift the mixture
In the end, just lift the mixture and dry the carpet fibres with a dry towel.
You can lift the mixture by wetting towel in cold water.
