Last night my mom spilled a pretty good amount of bright red nail polish on her sage color carpeting. I just had to share with everyone how to get the stain out...you need to blot any excess nail polish, then grab wd-40....spray all of the stain. this will spread the stain...using a washcloth and some elbow grease it will slowly disappear. i then used some baby powder to get the excess oil out of the carpet, vaccumed...then treated it with carpet cleaner-like resolve. i had one place that stilled showed slightly and i rubbed it with some goo gone-and it is gone! im not going to lie and say it only took me a few minutes it took some time rubbing the stain out then vaccuming and all this. not really a question but just had to share! I'm a nail tech and i think the reason why wd-40 worked so well is because nail polish doesn't like oil-it can't stick to oil-oh and the color of the carpet didn't fade or anything!
2007-03-20 16:25:13 · 6 answers · asked by heater 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
i used a dry washcloth. i just had to let everyone know!!!!
2007-03-22 05:06:00 · update #1
Use nail polish remover!!!
2007-03-24 15:32:34 · answer #1 · answered by ilovepoison2820 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good for you! When I was a kid my sister dropped a closed bottle of cheap BLUE nail polish on the carpet. The bottle spontaneously split open and there was a huge spot on the carpet. My mom tried getting it out with nail polish remover, which didn't work, so that area was covered with a rug forever after that. Good for you for figuring out how to clean it.
2007-03-20 17:53:43 · answer #2 · answered by jellybeanchick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK...I had the SAME hindrance..identical carpet colour...my daughter spilled a buncha vivid crimson polish.... Remover labored on a few of it...however now not it all. I ultimately talked a dry cleanser into promoting me a bit of bottle of dry cleansing resolution. It took a couple of attempts making use of a blank washcloth/cotton rag at any time when, however it did pop out, and did not harm my carpet.
2016-09-05 10:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the solution is so simple people. i only have one word for the nail polish problem on the carpet. and that word is. put an end table over it. thanks for the points
2007-03-20 17:26:02 · answer #4 · answered by BOB H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you use a dry washcloth or a wet one? Thank you this is good to know.
2007-03-20 16:49:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for sharing, I love to hear new ways to get stains out, I'm writing this one down. so I don't forget.
2007-03-20 17:19:34 · answer #6 · answered by lennie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋