Red Food Dyes Such as Kool-Aid Stains, Great Ideas for Removing the Stain

I must start off by telling you that everything in here is a suggestion and if it fails I cannot be held accountable for these suggestions failing to remove the stain or any damage resulting in you trying to remove the stain(s). These are Suggestions designed to help you.

Kool Aid & Other Red stains in Carpet: It is not always easy or even possible to remove these types of stains. Red Dyes from foods hang in there and sometimes keep coming back. All red dyes are hard to get out. The red coloring used in pop, candy and other foods won't generally flush out with just water. Keep remembering the best secret in stain removing, the shop vac or Wet/Dry Vacuum. A Wet/Dry Vacuum can be used to suck up a lot of the moisture and help prevent the stain from enlarging as the liquids spread out throw the carpet fibers. Even once you are flushing out the remaining liquids from your cleaning job a Wet/Dry Vacuum is ideal. Don't have one? Well you can get cheap ones from most home improvement stores and large retail stores.

• First you will need about some dish washing soap. Put about 5 drops into 2 cups of warm water.
• Wet a white cotton cloth with this mixture
• Lay the moistened cloth over the stain area.
• Place a clothes iron on it, MAKE SURE IT IS SET ON LOW. To high and you run the risk of melting your carpet fibers. Man made fibers will often melt under heat from a cloth iron so please take great care.
• Leave this for upwards of 15 minutes. Do not press down on the iron. Heat pressure means? Melting or burning the carpet.
• What we are trying to do is wick the stain up the fibers of the carpet. Helping it draw out of the fibers from the carpet to the cloth you are using under the iron.
• you should see red on the cloth.
• Fold the cloth or use a clean one and
• Repeat this process.

Some Carpet Stains Require a lot of patience to say the least. Patience without a doubt is required when we face Red Stains to get it out of the carpet. But even year old Kool Aid Stains can be lifted using this method. Just keep repeating the process again and again til you no longer see transfer to the white cloth from the carpet stain.

Remember: Clean white clothes, low heat on the iron and do not press on the iron or rub at the stain. Broken fibers in the carpet are more places for the stain to hide in and grab hold of your carpet. Let the color wick into the cloth at it's on rate. Then rinse the area with cold water to make sure all soaps are out. Using a Wet/Dry Vacuum can help speed up removing the liquids but you can blot the area. If you have a household fan to help aid in the drying of the Carpet this is ideal.

If the stain is not gone, at the very least you have reduced it's color and how noticeable it is.

You may wish to repeat the treatment described above but once done remember you want to dry it as quickly as possible because you do not want if it is there the stain that maybe deep down from wicking up to the surfaces. Think Candle wick here. The stain comes back by using the fibers like a candle wick, when you were treating the stain you should have seen the wicking occur. When treating the stain we wanted this to happen but once we have felt that we have done enough, the effect of wicking is no longer desirable.

There are no quick fixes when it comes to really getting in there to removing any stain. Keep in mind a job done right is a job well done. Anything else truly is not worth doing and you will regret it when the stain keeps returning or you have damaged the carpet by rubbing or scrubbing the carpet so it wears faster and it has to be replaced sooner. Using home made products to use on your carpet to gives you the control of the chemicals used and often is the better choice for the health of your family and pets.