The Cleaned Right Blog

If you can smell the cleaner from the parking lot, that does not mean the carpet is cleaner. For decades, cleaning products have been marketed around fragrance. Lemon means fresh. Pine means disinfected. Cherry means somebody apparently committed a felony with an air freshener. We have been conditioned to associate a strong chemical fragrance with cleanliness. But those are two completely different things. A fragrance tells you what a product smells like. It does not tell you

Your carpet can look clean long before it actually is. Carpet is very good at hiding soil. That is part of what makes it comfortable, quiet and forgiving in the first place. Dust, tracked-in soil, pollen, pet dander, food particles and other debris can settle below the visible surface instead of remaining obvious the way they would on a hard floor. The problem is that “I don’t see any stains” and “this carpet is clean” are not the same thing. Routine vacuuming is the most imp