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Cough Syrup. Tips to remove Cough Syrup stains

Cough syrup comes in many flavors but for the cough syrup stains that are fresh or old, use these tips to bring out that stain to leave your carpet cough syrup free and stain free:

When you have a large cough syrup spill, grabbing some salt and sprinkling it over the cough syrup will help control how much sinks into the carpet.

Using a towel, cloth or paper towel blot up as much of the excess liquid as quick as possible and then start working on the stain. Sometimes you will find that the syrup will linger on the top of the carpet because it is so thick, try using a spatula to scrape up much of the syrup on the top of the carpeting.

Using a spray bottle, use one-half cup of ammonia and two cups of cool water in a spray bottle and start spraying the stain. If the stain is wet or dry, this mixture will bring out the cough syrup stain. Blot up without spraying too much liquid on the stain at one time, continue as needed until you bring all the colored syrup out of the fibers.

A spray bottle using two cups of water and three tablespoons of dish liquid you can spray this on the cold stain and blot up with a cloth. Do not push the stain into the carpet further by rubbing; just a blotting motion will bring up the stain.

Continue as needed to bring up all the stain. Stubborn cough syrup stains can be brought up using a mixture of one-cup peroxide and two cups of cool water. Spraying this mixture over the stain and blotting up after you have let it sit for about an hour will get that stain out.