Don’t Try This at Home
When you notice a stain on the carpet or furniture in your home, your first impulse is to try a spot treatment to try to clean it yourself. This is almost always a mistake, even though it is easier to remove a fresh stain than one that has had time to set.
Most people don’t have the knowledge of stain removal techniques to do a good job with stain removal. Often they rub the stain deeper into the fibers, or they spread the stain beyond the original spot. In the best case, instead of a small stain, they now have a large, deeply embedded stain to deal with.
In the worst case, they have damaged the carpet or fabric or caused the color to change.