How do u clean up cooking oil from carpets?

Question

We where cooking and a friend of mine was carrying an open bottle of cooking oil tripped and spilt it all over the carpet. The carpet is about half an inch thick and is white. We used a product to lift up the stains but that only made the stains visible. Please someone help

Answer 1

Go get some Simple Green and rent a carpet shampoo machine!  The Simple Green is a degreaser and available at most discount stores.  Read the label........it tell you how to dilute it for cleaning carpets.  The shampooer will suck the cleaning solution and the oil out of the carpet.  Use hot water in the tank and the Simple Green. You might have to do it several times to get rid of the stain completely.  And wet carpet looks different than dry, so give it a good going over and let it dry and do it again if you need to!

Pretreating with some of the Simple Green mixed 50/50 would help also.  Then shampoo with the machine and rinse well.  Just rubbing and scrubbing at the spot with a sponge is just going to spread it around, not get rid of it.

Answer 2

I haven't try this on carpeting but try Dawn dishwashing soap-it works great for other problems like this {dawn gets lots of  bubbles so start out small AMOUNT and see} MAYBE SPONGE SOME ON AND PUT PAPERTOWEL OVER IT??????/}

Answer 3

I know this works for candle wax so it may also work for oil.  Place some brown paper  (parcel paper) over the stain and iron over the spot several times on a very high setting.  The heat should draw out the oil and deposit it on the paper.

Answer 4

DAWN DISHWASHING LIQUID!