You have been invited to your co-worker’s house warming party. You enter the living room to see a beautiful clean, off-white carpet that off sets the black leather couches and modern black coffee table. Your co-worker hands you a glass of red wine and just as you take a sip from the glass you are bumped from behind and your glass goes tumbling onto the carpet along with the red wine that has now implemented numerous spots on the carpet. You apologize and your coworker tells you it’s no big deal. But can your co-worker actually clean that red wine up and prevent staining?

The most important thing you need to remember and practice with any carpet stain is to blot. Never smear or scrub a stain. Blotting will help lift a stain and prevents it from making the stain larger or pushing it down deeper into the fibers.

Next, pour a very generous amount of kosher table salt over the stains. Enough salt so that it is completely covering the stain and so that you cannot see any liquid seeping through the salt immediately. You can let it sit for a few hours if necessary.

Let the salt sit there a long time. Once you are certain the salt has absorbed all of the moisture then you can get out the vacuum and vacuum up all the salt.

Once all the salt is vacuumed up you can then get a clean white towel and some club soda. Blot the club soda over the area with the clean towel. This helps to clean up any of the remaining salt and you should see the stain lightened tremendously and sometimes completely vanish.

If the club soda doesn’t seem to help fade the stain enough, you can try Oxyclean which can help with red wine stains too.

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