How to Remove Coke From Carpet

Soft drinks can leave sticky stains on carpet.

Coke contains caramel coloring, which means it can stain fabrics, such as clothing, upholstery and carpeting. These stains show up most prominently if the soft drink is spilled on a white carpet. No matter what color your carpet, however, you need to get this up as soon as you can--when Coke dries, it becomes darker and sticky and will attract more dirt to that area of your carpet.

Things You'll Need

• Paper towels
• Club soda
• Sponge
• Carpet shampoo
• Dish soap
• Cloth

Instructions

1. Blot the Coke with a dry paper towel, removing as much as you can. When you can't remove any more Coke from the carpet this way, pour club soda over the stain. Use just enough to cover it.

2. Blot the stain again with dry paper towels to pull the moisture off the carpet. Club soda works on most kinds of carpet stains, according to Carpet.org.

3. Pour club soda on the stain again if you still see any discoloration from the Coke on the carpet. If not, wet a sponge in cool water and place just a drop of dish detergent on the sponge. Rub this over the carpet to finish cleaning up any sticky residue.

4. Wet a cloth in cool water. Use this cloth to rinse off the soap residue by gently rubbing the carpet.

Tips & Warnings

• If you do not have club soda immediately available, substitute cold water, followed by carpet shampoo or dishwashing detergent. It will take a bit longer using cold water instead of club soda, but will be effective at removing the Coke from the carpet.

References

• Carpet.org: Carpet Maintenance