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catscharm74
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Heather
Texas
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Posted - Jun 29 2009 :  5:01:50 PM  Show Profile  Send catscharm74 a Yahoo! Message
I have to clean the carpets before we move out. I am really trying to get creative with saving money while not compromising quality. I filled the carpet cleaner liquid compartment of my steam cleaner with 1/3 Lavendar Dr. Bronner's soap, the rest with hot water. WOWZY!!! Such clean carpets and smells good too. I think it even took out that dog smell. It worked great on the greasy/dirty bits. I even did a pass with just hot water to make sure it all came up. It looks like it normally does with the real stuff and I already had it, so it was free!! And I was just about to buy another container of the store stuff, which even the cheapo stuff is $8 a bottle.

Heather

Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!

peapicker
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texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 29 2009 :  5:46:38 PM  Show Profile
That's great. I don't think I have ever seen Dr. Bronner's soap . Where do you get it? Since we are talking about cleaning, I had some bad stains on some almost white carpet and regular stain remover didn't do much. I read on the inet to use shaving cream and I bought the cheap stuff at the dollar store it worked better than anything I have ever used for spot cleaning.
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catscharm74
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Heather
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 29 2009 :  6:46:40 PM  Show Profile  Send catscharm74 a Yahoo! Message
I have seen it in Target, Wally World, Natural food stores or you can order online. Just google it. Good tip on the shaving cream.

Heather

Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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Tammyb
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Tammy
Bluffton Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 01 2009 :  5:16:58 PM  Show Profile
Sounds like something I need to try.
Thanks for the post.

Tammyb #541
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catscharm74
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Heather
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 01 2009 :  5:43:23 PM  Show Profile  Send catscharm74 a Yahoo! Message
Just be careful to really water it down...it does get sudsy and I always do the extra water rinse.

Heather

Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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