How to Remove Hair Dye From Your Carpet

If you have spilled hair dye on your carpet, do not let it dry. If it dry's you now have the dye permanently stained onto your carpet. Here are some easy tricks to remove the dye almost instantly.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Paper towels
• Corn starch
• Shaving cream
• Ammonia

1. First, you want to blot the dye as much as possible with paper towels. Preferably strong paper towels like Bounty.

2. Next fully and generously cover the stain with corn starch. Allow it to sit for about 15 minutes, then sweep it up.

3. The corn starch will remove the excess dye from the carpet.

4. Next you want to add the shaving cream on top of the spot and add add a few drops of water. Work into the carpet well using your fingers.

5. Then you want to blot the area well with a paper towel or cloth. If the stain remains in the carpet the next step is to mix one tablespoon ammonia with half a cup of water.

6. Wet the stain well with the solution and blot well.

7. This should remove the hair dye from the carpet, if not then you can buy several more boxes of the same color hair dye, and dye all your carpet!