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The joy of getting new carpet can be short-lived if you have pets, children, or even a lot of visitors. Even if you manage to get everyone to remove their shoes before entering the house or forbid non-clear liquids from leaving the kitchen, accidents can — and do! — happen, leaving your once-clean carpets soiled. Luckily, with so many wonderful carpet cleaning products on the market, worrying about dirtying your carpets is a thing of the past. Your only problem now? Is deciding which of the best carpet cleaners to choose! Our list of the 13 best solutions to get your carpets super clean will help to clear things up.
What’s the best way to clean carpets?
You don’t have to rent a big machine every time you want to deep-clean your carpets. There are several effective and inexpensive ways to get them sparkling with less cumbersome methods.
Carpet-cleaning vacuum cleaners that use water and special detergent work magic on dirty rugs. Or, if you don’t have one of these machines, a splash of a good carpet-cleaning solvent in a bucket of water, a carpet brush, and some elbow grease will do wonders to zap dirt and grime away in no time.
For accidental spills, there are spot stain removers that are as simple as spraying on, rubbing into the carpet, and wiping up with a paper towel. Alternatively, dry powder cleaning products can work in two trouble-free steps — sprinkle on and hoover up!
There are also special carpet cleaners for pets. Did Rex do his business on the carpet again? Less-than-savory stains can be eradicated quicker than you can say “bad dog” with a great odor-eliminating product.
If you’re sensitive to strong smells and chemicals, there are many natural carpet cleaners on the market, too, so even those with allergies can get their home spic and span.
Whatever your needs, you’ll be able to find a solution for you from our list of the best 13 of them below. Keep scrolling for Woman’s World’s picks for the best carpet cleaners.
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11. Best Carpet Cleaning Machine Under $100 — Hoover PowerDash Pet Carpet Cleaner FH50700
If you’ve always wanted a carpet-cleaning machine but were put off by hefty price tags, this Amazon choice product is sure to change your mind. Ringing in at less than $100, this extremely efficient, compact, and lightweight (13 pounds), Hoover PowerDash carpet cleaner is specifically designed to tackle tough messes made by pets.
“I freaking love this thing,” one of its more than 2,250 five-star reviews reads. “It's small but extremely powerful… The amount of cat hair this thing sucks up is insane! I'm six months pregnant and have absolutely no trouble with this thing. It snaps together [and it's] easy to fill and change [the] water. I wish I could give it 10 stars.”
Even if you vacuum the house daily and wash your carpets regularly, you may still find that your allergies are being set off. If this is the case, it might be time to call in the specialists, by which we’re referring to Allersearch Laboratories.
Founded in 1981, this company is known for its environmental asthma and allergy-relief products. Its X-Mite anti-allergen moist carpet powder is an efficient carpet-cleaning product that works to refresh your carpeting while simultaneously neutralizing dust mites and other allergens. To use, simply sprinkle it onto your carpet, lightly brush it in with a brush or broom, leave for three hours, then vacuum as normal.
This brush is a great carpet-cleaning tool that gets right in between tight carpet fibers to lift all the grime out — and you won’t even have to scrub that hard! The soft rubber grip is ergonomic, comfortable to use, and non-slip, so it won’t fly out of your hand, even if it’s all soapy.
When paired with a good carpet-cleaning detergent, the tough and durable bristles found on this little thing are unforgiving. In addition to carpets, you can use Mothers' brush on the couch, car seats, and other upholstery.
Though we can’t imagine life without our precious four-legged friends, we have to be honest; we could live without the messes they sometimes make. If you're a pet owner, this carpet cleaner from Rocco & Roxie is sure to be your new best friend.
More than 8,000 positive reviewers all agree that the brand's professional strength stain and odor eliminator is a “miracle product" that's “worth every penny" and “works like magic." Consider us sold!
A carpet-cleaning machine is nothing if not paired with the a good carpet detergent. Nature’s Miracle advanced deep-cleaning carpet shampoo, made for use with any wet carpet cleaner, is the number one best-selling household carpet machine detergent on Amazon. It penetrates deep to remove stains, odors, and allergens, contains bio-enzymatic odor-locking technology to eradicate unpleasant smells, and features a color-bright formula with conditioners that won't dull or alter the texture of your carpet. No wonder this product has more than 1,200 five-star reviews!
Just because something has spilled onto your carpet doesn’t mean you have to wash the whole thing. A carpet stain spot remover is the perfect way to get topical messes out stress-free. With more than 2,600 five-star reviews, Folex's instant carpet spot remover is non-toxic and non-irritating, allowing you to safely and effectively remove tough spots and stains from carpet, rugs, upholstery, and even clothing.
You don’t even have to rinse or vacuum it off afterwards — according to one Amazon reviewer, using this is as easy as "spray, rub, gone." Just spritz it onto the stain, work it in with a gloved fingertip, blot it off with a paper towel or absorbent cloth, and watch the magic happen.
If you feel like your carpets are a lost cause that require the services of a professional cleaner, check out the Bissell Big Green professional carpet cleaner. Its price might seem daunting at first, but when you consider that professional cleaning services charge an average of around $50 per room, it doesn’t seem so bad. This machine also provides much a much cheaper solution than getting new carpets.
Thousands of Amazon buyers have been raving that Bissel's professional-grade cleaner gets even the dirtiest of carpets looking like new. “This thing is THE BOMB! Never in a million years would I have imagined something this small could erase 20 YEARS of cigarette smoke and dog messes from a carpet but this DID! I'm amazed and astounded... Not only is it CLEAN but it no longer stinks of cigarettes and wet dog. Well worth the price.”
Many tough detergents and cleaning products include harsh chemicals and irritating ingredients that make them worrisome to use on a regular basis. Puracy natural carpet cleaner detergent's natural, plant-based, hypoallergenic, and non-toxic formula, which uses plant-based cleansers and softeners, a biodegradable water softener, and pink grapefruit essential oil that make it smell yummy, is ideal for those with children or pets. Plus, since this product is made for diluted use, a little goes a long way. It’s suitable for hand-cleaning carpets or for use with a carpet-cleaning machine.
CarGuys' all-purpose super cleaner spray is a powerful little product for those who have no time to mess about when it comes to keeping their vehicle in tip-top shape. This all-in-one cleaner not only works on not only your car's carpets, but everything else inside of it, too.
“REMARKABLE,” reads one of this cleaner's 2,000-plus reviews. “Works on the dash, steering wheel, cloth seats, carpet, trim and paint. I sprayed it onto the carpet in [the] cargo area, immediately scrubbed with a heavy brush (no long wait time), and stains were literally gone. I will never be without a bottle of this!”
Dry carpet cleaners typically use specialized machines, but Amazon’s choice for best dry carpet cleaner — this dirt-busting product from Capture — works solo to get rid of of stains, smells, bacteria, mold, dust mites, and allergies. Sprinkle it on your carpet, rub in with a brush, leave it on for 30 minutes, then vacuum it off, and, voila! Newly fresh carpet.
This product is versatile enough to be used on rugs, couches, and other upholstery in the same manner. For best results and to keep allergens at bay, use it every eight weeks.
The Carbona 2-in-1 carpet cleaner’s secret is a mixture of grime-fighting oxy-powered ingredients and a built-in scrub brush that comes on its cap. Great for pet hair, this brush gathers debris in its bristles, so all you have to do is peel it off and dispose.
“I love this stuff so much,” gushed Amazon purchaser Heather. “This stuff is like magic. ... I use Carbona with the brush head to scrub the stain and it basically works like an eraser. It's like the stain never even happened. It doesn't stain/bleach the carpet, there's no smell, and the brush head doesn't even look dirty; it's basically magic and wizardry.”
We couldn’t exclude the Hoover's Hoover's Power Scrub Deluxe from our list of the best carpet-cleaning solutions. With a whopping 12,615 reviews and counting, it’s clear that this 19-pound vacuum does its job, and well.
Just some of its coveted features include a spin-scrubbing system with powerful 360-degree brushes that allow it to extract tough dirt, a heating force which speeds up drying time, a hose for cleaning hard-to-reach areas, tools for stairs, upholstery, and crevices, and a dual nozzle to evenly clean surfaces using equal suction. All this for less than $150? Yes, please.
With the fast pace of modern life, we don't always get to deal with carpet stains as quickly as we'd like to. If you're worried that you've waited too long to get a dirty mark out, this pre-treatment carpet cleaner is the answer.
Simply spray it onto the offending stain, be it coffee, wine, juice, pet feces, or worse, and let its oxygen-based ingredients with accelerated oxy technology penetrate deeply into your carpet to sanitize and loosen even the toughest stains and odors. From there, you can clean the carpet as you ordinarily would.
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