Soap Free Podcast September 30, 2020 - Cleaning Wool Carpets

About cleaning your wool carpets. Extreme Pre-Spray. https://soapfreeprocyon.com/product/extreme-pre-spray/ [00:00:01.310]  Hey, it's J.P. from Procyon, and thanks for joining me in this week's podcast. Today, I want to talk a little bit about cleaning your wool carpets. Wool is a special subset being a natural fibre. And we are proud at Procyon to have our Extreme Pre-Spray certified by the Wool Safe Organization out of the U.K. Woolsafe.org if you want to look it up. And there's some good information for you and our products do carry. That is the Extreme carries the Wool Safe approved label. [00:00:35.090]  Before we get into that, a couple of terms I'd like to refresh on. One is surfactant. Remember, a surfactant decreases the surface tension of liquids or the tension between a liquid and a solid. So here dirt is that solid that we're trying to detach from a fiber. So we have the water softeners that help and sodium as our surfactant that helps decrease that surface tension and helps you rinse away soils from your carpet fibers. Second term, I'd like to remind you of is emulsifying or emulsion and emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally what's called immiscible, in other words, unmixable or unblendable. [00:01:21.740]  And the emulsion works owing to a liquid to liquid phase separation. It's getting a little more technical than need be. But let's just say that what we're doing is we're taking a solid and creating an emulsion, turning into a liquid, allowing it to be rinsed away. So now onto your wool carpets as a first step. If you have a spill or spot, don't panic, but act as quickly as possible to remove as much of the fresh soil in the fresh spot. [00:01:53.120]  You can decide whether to tackle the removal yourself in case of an extensive or old set in stain. We really do suggest you contact a professional cleaner, so you should always take up as much of the soil or stain as possible before applying any wool safe approved product. I prefer to use our Extreme Pre-Spray, but you do that by blotting it up with a bleach free white cloth. So just start with that. Then you can use a little bit of water if you want the blot it up. [00:02:27.560]  And then when you're using our Extreme Pre-Spray spot, create the mix and then apply it to the rag you're using or the bleach free terry cloth washcloth, for example, and then blot. Now I want you to do is I want you to blot from the edge instead of the center, because that way, if you blot from the edge to the middle, you're going to avoid spreading that stain further outward. So use small quantities of the extreme or your spot remover at a time and repeat as necessary blotting. [00:03:05.090]  Don't over wet the carpet. And finally, do rinse it with fresh water on your cloth. And remember, when you're ready to pre-spray and clean your entire wool carpet, use our Extreme Pre-Spray. Sprayed it on, agitate lightly, let the surfactant action work for five to ten minutes and then rinse with clean water. This is how you will safely take care of your carpets, leaving them in that pH neutral state that is most desirable for the long term preservation and enjoyment of your beautiful wool, carpets and rugs. That's it this week from JP at Procyon. [00:03:48.830]  Thanks for listening and have a healthy and clean week. Subscribe to Soap Free Podcast on Soundwise