How to Get Red Kool-Aid Stains Out of Carpet
...For Those of Us with Children
Now, a year after the fact, I hear that pouring salt on a spilled liquid will extract the liquid. I heard that if you pour salt on the Kool-Aid once it has been spilled, it extracts it out of the carpet and then you just wait for it to dry and sweep it up with a broom and dustpan. I can't confirm whether this works or not as it has been a year since the spill.
However, the last thing I tried seemed to work miracles. Here's what I did. I took a bowl of warm soapy water. I used green colored dawn. I'm not sure what other dish soaps could work. I took a light colored wash cloth and soaked it in the soapy water to get it sopping wet. Then I placed the wash cloth on top of the stain and I put a steaming hot iron on it. I left the iron steaming on the washcloth until it was almost dry. I repeated this process all over the stains.
I noticed instantly that the washcloth was red on the bottom. That told me that the stain was coming out...at least a little. Every little bit helps. So I repeated this process over and over again for about 2 hours. Each time it pulled a little bit more red out. The water was even changing colors.
I stopped working on it when my son came home from visiting with his grandpa. The stain is almost gone. The next time I have some time home while he's out and about, I will repeat the process and try to get the rest of the stain out. But I wanted to post this because it's a very simple technique to use and it seems to work better than all of the other things I tried combined...and with a lot less work. No hands and knees scrubbing involved here. Just place the steaming hot iron on top of the wash cloth and wait about 5 or 10 minutes until the wash cloth is just barely damp underneath. Be careful picking up the wash cloth to put it back in the water as it will be incredibly hot. I've included before and after pictures so that you can see how well it works. I was absolutely amazed! Good luck to you.
Published by Ragecrystl
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14 Comments
Post a CommentI just tried this on my new beige carpet and it worked like a charm. you have saved me now let see if i can get out the bike grease that my other son got on the carpet.
would it burn the carpet or/and rag?
wouldn't burn the carpet
This is the best technique yet. This is simlar to what the cleaners use. That's why I think it works so much Thank You so much
Thank you for the tip.. It worked great.. thanks again
one of the kids was able to smuggle red juice into my wifes new car with tan interior. Of course it got spilled and nobody said anything about. Well, I tried the technique and it worked.
So I was just wondering if it got it all out so that you wouldnt have even known that it was there?!? My boyfriend split it in his sleep and I have tried EVERYTHING? And we live in an apartment so I dont really want to replace the carpet!!
I can't even begin to tell you how skeptical I was to even try this. My 3 year old decided to slup up his fruit punch kool-aid off a plate and managed to spill, and then hide his spilled drink under a puzzle. Needless to say, the stain was already dry and then became the task of trying to get this red mess out of my brand new beige carpet! Can we say frantic! I tried Shout, Spray N' Wash, Clorox 2 Color safe bleach, everything you can think of to possibly get the kool-aid to let go of my carpet.
I tried the iron trick, skeptical as all get out, and it took it out immediately. I need to do a couple more passes possibly just to satisfy my own mind, and the fact that from trying other things my carpet is very wet. But I can't even begin to thank you enough!!!! What a God send.
A tenant moved out and left red and dark blue stains on blue carpet. I didn't have any idea what either of them were but I searched online and found the dawn & iron trick. It is really amazing. The red stain is still visible but much lighter, I will keep trying. The blue stain looks like some type of ink and it "wicked" up into the white cloth faster than the red stain.
Can't thank you enough. We have white carpet and about 6 months ago our dog knocked a glass of kool-aid off the end table onto the carpet. We tried EVERYTHING to get it out. This worked like a charm!!!!! Once again, we can't thank you enough!!