How to Remove Nail Polish From Carpet

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Tim Gipson and I'm going to talk to you about how to remove fingernail polish from a carpet. I have a sample down here and you can see we have this nice bright red spot of fingernail polish that has been dropped on the carpet. What we want to start off with first is Hydrogen Peroxide is a good solution to start off with first. It will remove a lot of your common stains. The important thing is that you want to start out with something that is the least damaging or at least is a chemical or a solution that is as weak as possible because you don't want to damage your carpet when you are doing this. So what we'll do is we can either blot the Peroxide on or in this case pour a little bit in your cap so you can control it and you can actually pour it right over the stain. You might want to let that set a little bit and then go back to blotting. It is very important whenever we are trying to remove any kind of stain out of a carpet you want to blot this, you don't want to rub this at all. Rubbing will just disturb your fibers and it will also just spread the stain so to keep it isolated we want to just keep blotting it. Now if that is not working then the next thing we can go to is make a solution of baking soda and water here and then again you can either dab this on or you can pour a little bit on but we want to keep working this and if you don't have good results with either the Peroxide or the baking soda solution then you can go to some over-the-counter products such as a stain remover or a goop off or something like that. Now it is very important if you move up to a stronger chemical such as this to remove the stain you'll want to make sure that you try it on the carpet in a closet area so to make sure that it does not remove the color out of the carpet. So you want to make sure that the carpet is colorfast so if we use that and that doesn't quite work then we can also go up to the strongest which would be a non-acetone polish remover and on this one what I would recommend on this one is making sure that you put it on a white cloth and dab this in. Now a stain-like fingernail polish is something you are going to have to be very patient with and it is going to take you a long time to get this out but the most important thing is that you want to continue to dab and as you can see it will start pulling it out of the carpet. So you are going to have to stick with this stain for a while but the most important thing to remember is work through progression on the solutions that you are going to use to clean this up. I'm Tim Gipson and that's how to remove fingernail polish from a carpet."