Easy Homemade Carpet Cleaning Solution for Machines

The Recipe:

• HOT Water (about 1 gallon of water, enough to fill your steam clean wet tank)
• 3 teaspoons Dawn (or other dish soap) - make sure it's NOT "with bleach" (buy here)
• 1 1/2 Tablespoons White Vinegar (buy here)
• 1/4 Cup 3% Peroxide (buy here)

The Instructions:

1. Fill the wet tank of your steam cleaner with HOT water as you would normally, leaving room for the other ingredients.
2. Add the dish soap. Make sure that you do NOT add this before the water, or you will have a tank full of bubbles.
3. Add the white vinegar and peroxide. These will deodorize your carpet and get the stains out.
4. Clean your carpets as you would normally.
5. Rinse your carpets as you would normally, using plain HOT water to rinse until the water your machine sucks up is clear (not mirky or dirty).

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