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peanuthead said
on 6/30/2007 My sister just spilled red finger nail polish on are farely new carpet...I was freaking out found this site and saw the Oxi-clean idea and it TOTALLY worked. It took the polish right out.
shavingcream05 said
on 6/5/2007 nobody knows anything. nothing worked.
alynnk said
on 1/23/2007 I spilled black polish on my mom's white carpet. I tried the hairspray trick, which worked a little. Then I poured polish remover on the stain, rubbed it with an old wash cloth. It ruined my nail job, but the stain came right out!! :)
Jess2007 said
on 1/22/2007 omg! my son poured red fingernail polish in our beige carpet in our home that we are RENTNG (needless to say we had to get it out). My husband is a plumber and had this stuff called PVC CLEANER...bought at almost any store. It's like a super strength polish remover. It worked like a charm!! NOTE: test a small piece of your carpet before using..it can melt plastic. :)
pinkcad54 said
on 10/10/2006 Fingernail polish from carpet- I broke a whole bottle of a medium color polish on the floor and some got on the light-colored berber carpet next to it. Polish remover got the polish off of the floor, but I came to this site and saw several comments on using shaving cream. I tried it, and it does work!! This is something usually everyone has on hand. Thanks so much for the tip!
Anonymous said
on 9/13/2006 Use orange juice, it works.
Anonymous said
on 8/14/2006 My 3 year old daughter decided to try to paint her toe nails herself. She dumped out about 8 or 9 bottles of polish onto my bedroom carpet. From the darkest purple to a white nail tip polish...it was a disaster.
Peanut butter has oils in it, which help loosen the fingernail polish. It might take a long time to get it all up and a lot of elbow grease, but it works!
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 I spilled a two and a half foot line of dark, shiny, red nail polish on my light beige-pink carpet. I got it (mostly) out with hydrogen peroxide, water, hair spray, and rubbing alcohol. Then I covered it with plastic wrap and laid heavy textbooks on top for about 20 minutes. Then I took off the textbooks and plastic wrap and scrubbed with a new toothbrush, adding more rubbing alcohol as I scrubbed. I let it sit for about half an hour, then doused the whole thing in generic glass cleaner, letting it soak for five minutes then scrubbing with the toothbrush, working up a foam. I kept on spraying and scrubbing, then I let it sit for a night. The next day I poured two cups of warm water onto the stain and scrubbed, then dried the whole mess up with paper towels.
I got most of it out, with a few chips of dried nail polish left that I'll probably just cut out.
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 Use nail polish remover, then follow up with shaving cream. Then saturate the area with water. Then; scrub, scrub, scrub. It works!
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 In a bucket of hot water mix in 1/4 cup Dawn dish washing liquid 1/2 cup Mr. Clean, and Windex window cleaner. Soak the stain with Windex, then start scrubbing with the mixture (preferably with a stiff scrub brush). Start scrubbing away. Repeat the process until stain is gone. A couple of hours later, the stain is dry and gone. By the way, this was very pink nail polish. Also Windex is good for paint spills on carpet. Try and get the paint up as soon as possible.
Anonymous said
on 8/5/2006 My mom spilled nail polish on the carpet of my brand-new home. She was so upset about it, she cried when she told me. I searched online for ways to clean it. I had hairspray and tried it, and it worked! And with hardly any scrubbing! I simply cleaned off the hairspray stickiness with water and it was like the accident never happened.
Anonymous said
on 7/22/2006 Oxy-clean works well on carpets. Just put it on the stain, let it dry, then clean up.
Anonymous said
on 7/9/2006 When my 2 year old son spilled my red fingernail polish on our new beige carpet, I immediately looked on the Internet for solutions. I found eHow and read what other users used. I did not have any of the cleaners handy, but my husband did have a bottle of shaving cream. It took every bit of the nail polish out of the carpet! I had to spray it on the carpet and rub it gently and blot it up 3 times, but it worked! We rinsed the carpet with warm water and the shaving cream came out as well.
Anonymous said
on 6/30/2006 Resolve High-Traffic granules and scrubbing pulled most of the bright pink nail polish out of our cream carpet. Resolve is wonderful for any stain!
Anonymous said
on 6/30/2006 I spilled a bottle of nail polish on my grandmother's carpet. First we tried a little bit of nail polish remover, rubbed that in, then tons of water, rubbed that in, then we tried the alcohol, rubbed that in, then the shaving cream, then a little bit of peroxide. It was fading the color, but it was still very visible. My mom ran to the store and got some OxyClean and 409 carpet stain remover. We used tons of each. We just kept on doing a combo of all of the things I listed and lots of warm water, and scrubbing it with a nail brush! Eventually it was all gone!