Cleaning Red Wine Spills on Your Carpet

There are a number of household items that will help you quickly remove that red wine spills on your carpet. Use one of these techniques and your red wine stain will be gone in no time.

If the stain is still wet, you can simply add one of these household cleaners to begin the wine stain removal process.

Talcum Powder: Talcum powder is a good solution. The powder will soak up the wet red wine and remove it from your carpet. Add as much talcum powder as you need to fully cover the stain with so that there is plenty of powder to soak up the red wine.

Corn Starch: Corn starch is another product you can use to remove red wine stains. While the stain is wet, pour the corn starch onto your carpet and it will soak up the wine. Again, make sure that you use enough to cover the red wine spill so that there is plenty of corn starch to soak up the red wine.

Table Salt: In the same way that the talcum powder and corn starch work, adding table salt to the stain on the carpet will soak up the red wine.

If the red wine has already dried and turned into a stain, try this method:

Club Soda, Then Table Salt: If the stain is dry already, re-wet the stain using club soda and then add the table salt. The club soda will help lift the stain away from the carpet and the table salt will then soak it up. You can also use talcum powder or corn starch instead of table salt.

Leave On Overnight: Once you add the corn starch, table salt or talcum powder to the stain, you’ll want to give it plenty of time to soak up the red wine spill. My recommendation is that you leave the stain cleaner on the stain overnight or at least for several hours. This will ensure that the stain is fully soaked up and that the stain is gone. If you want to test it first for a few hours, you can also re-wet the stain based on my recommendation above. Then vacuum up the household cleaner and both the cleaner and stain should be gone from your carpet. If there is still some stain remaining, try the method above by rewetting the stain and adding more cleaner to soak up the remaining red wine stain.

Blot, Don’t Rub: If you do decide to try to get some of the red wine spill up before adding one of the items above, make sure you blot the stain, don’t rub. If you rub the red wine, it will move deeper into the carpet and will be much harder to get out. On carpet, you best bet is to immediately add one of the items above that will soak up the red wine instead of trying to blot it out first.

Specialized Products: There are also a few products on the market designed specifically to remove red wine stains. The section Removing Red Wine Stain with Specialized Products section to learn more about the top products.

Some of these tips will also work if you have spilled red wine in your clothing. However, there are some special things you need to keep in mind when spilling on clothing. Go to the section Removing Red Wine Stains from Clothing to get the specific techniques on removing red wine spills from your clothes.

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