Does anyone else have a weird obsession with vacuuming? {Don’t leave me high and dry now folks..} I could possibly be on one of those shows like “My Strange Addiction” and you’ll see me singing to myself, vacuuming every inch of my floor, claiming it to be my stress reliever. haha. Wellll maybe that’s a teensy-tiny stretch but for real, I vacuum.. a lot. 
Now that confession time is over, let’s move on to my point…
In the process of vacuuming my home, I moved a rug aside that should have been vacuumed under at least a year ago {–>don’t judge} juuuuust to find that I had originally put the rug in that specific spot to cover where I had dripped grey paint. Oh yeah, dripped dark grey paint everywhere… like all over our creamy colored carpet. AHHH! I had totally forgot all about the paint spot and realized it was time to rid of that nastiness. I pulled out one ‘ingredient’ from our pantry {hydrogen peroxide} and started an experiment. It was a complete surprise to me that it actually worked! I decided to go online and scope things out to see if I’m the only crazy fool who pulls out hydrogen peroxide from their pantry to clean carpet stains and guess what?! There are plenty of other crazies out there that have tried this too AND have found it successful!
Here’s the deets…
Items Needed:
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Damp Cloth
the “How-To”:
1. Saturate the stained section of your carpet with Hydrogen Peroxide. {I used a cloth saturated in Hydrogen Peroxide and soaked it that way. You can also use a sponge!}
2. Allow to sit for five minutes.
3. Blot & scrub the stain with a damp cloth until it is removed.
4. Repeat as many times as needed until the stain is completely gone.
I swear by this simple method! Honestly… I’ve been using it all over my house and so far it’s been a success!
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My dog had her nails clipped and the Vet banaged her foot. Needless to say I was at the other end of the house and she was walking around without the bandage on our white carpet! Hello hydrogen peroxide. Worked like a dream!!!!
Yay!! Glad to hear! My stain had been on my carpet for easily a year and it came out so I’m sharing the excitement with you!
I never thought of trying peroxide but I will now thanks for the tip!
I use regular rubbing alcohol on my carpet stains and it works GREAT. I just put some in a small spray bottle, spray the area and scrub with a wash rag. We had this stain on our carpet before we moved in and we brought in a professional carpet cleaner (to do the whole house) and the stain looked like it had gone away but after a couple of weeks it resurfaced. Well I tried cleaning it with rubbing alcohol and that stain is gone gone gone!
Great idea! I will have to try this! Thanks for the tip
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No problem! It might take a little bit of elbow grease but it definitely works!
I used rubbing alcohol to remove red candle wax stain from carpet, it got most of it out.
I ran out of carpet stain remover and haven’t gotten to the retail outlet but this week to purchase any. What other varieties of cleaning materials will function.
I thought the pic looked like some color had been pulled. Be careful because that is exactly what peroxide will do, pull color from fabrics!!
Using peroxide on light colored carpet is understandable, but my house has navy blue carpet thoughout. Will applying peroxide to this dark color take out or diminish the color?
I would be careful if carpet is a colored one.. hydrogen peroxide is like bleach.. works great to get blood out of clothes, to put on a wound to clean it out.. to sterilize your toothbrush, etc.. do a color test first somewhere where it won’t show. shaving cream also works on some stains.
Also yur car or truck use that it work
This doesn’t bleach the fibers?
I wonder if it will take out pet urine..I have a white shag carpet..tried to clean the stain but it just make the spot yellow.
Do you have any suggestions how to get cat urine stains and smell out of carpet. I heard from somewhere to spray vodka on ot and it will get the smett out.
To Sandra: To get out urine smells. Plain old baking soda. empty the box around and on the stain. Take your broom and work into the carpet. Then after a couple of hours or so vacuum up the dry baking soda it will take the smell with it.
Spray ammonia….takes out smell after it dries.
I use the cheapest brand of shaving foam. Just shake, spray wipe off with damp cloth – all gone! I use shaving foam on my car seats too.
Another very strong and powerful post. I’ve been reading through some of your previous posts and finally decided to drop a comment on this one. I signed up for your newsletter, so please keep up the informative posts!
hydrogen peroxide is good for a lot of things, when there is blood on clothes we reach for hydrogen peroxide bam gone. I bought a used truck and carpet in it is so nasty think i’ll buy a few bottles and see if it can help out, what could it hurt they are already screwed lol
My mom taught me ti use windex on carpet stains in the same manner as the peroxide is used and it works like a charm. Ive passed this on to my kids.
Great suggestion!
Be careful using windex on carpet. Test it in a hidden spot first to be sure it doesn’t bleach out the carpet. Been there- done that.
I read on pinterest all the time about the “miracle” carpet cleaner but it includes dish detergent. Do NOT do ti!!! The soap, unless you are able to completely rinse it out, will actually attract dirt and hold it there like glue. Been there, done that.