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Spot Removal

Club Soda: Always Keep it on Hand

By Linda Cobb

Categories: Green Cleaning, Carpets & Flooring, Furnishings & Dusting, Laundry, Health & Safety
Tagged: Carpet, Carpet Cleaning, Cleaning Strategy, House Cleaning Tips, Spot Removal, Stain Removal

Club soda is the best emergency spotter there is. Keep club soda on hand to clean up spills on carpet and clothing. Remember to react as soon as possible to a spill. If you act fast, a spot shouldn't become a stain. Club soda will remove red wine, coffee, tea, pop (yes even red pop!) Kool-Aid™ and many other spills you can think of. Lift any solids carefully off carpet or clothes and then pour on the club soda, blotting with a white rag until all the color from the spill is removed. Blot carpet easily by folding a rag and standing on it, turning the rag as it absorbs moisture and discoloration from the spill. The carbonation in the club soda brings the offending spill to the surface so you can blot it up. If you spill on your clothes in a restaurant, ask for a little club soda or seltzer and use your napkin to blot the stain until it is removed. I have found that club soda will even work on many old stains, too. Always keep several bottles on hand.

 

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Club Soda: Always Keep it on Hand:  Created on May 14th, 2009.  Last Modified on May 14th, 2009

 

About Linda Cobb

Linda Cobb

Bestselling author Linda Cobb, the Queen of Clean® has been dispensing her unique brand of housekeeping humor through her national newsletter and as a guest on more than 70 local and national radio and television stations for nearly a decade.

Linda moved into the national spotlight with the release of her first book, Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean®, a housekeeping ‘have-to-have,’ full of unique cleaning solutions and housekeeping tips that really work!

She specializes in tough cleaning problems, and her unusual tips are a big hit with audiences. Linda recently wowed the audience of The Oprah Show and LIVE with Regis and Kelly, and she continues to clean up on NBC’s The Today Show, Good Morning Arizona, Dr. Phil, The View, and DIY Networks' Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean.

 

Linda is the former owner of one of the largest cleaning and disaster restoration companies in Michigan where she specialized in carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning, wall and window washing and some of the most difficult cleaning tasks in the industry: fire, storm, smoke and water damage.