Removing Ice Lolly Stain from Carpet

busymumof3

Am hoping that someone knows a nifty trick to get an ice lolly stain out of a carpet. As I was having a fun time yesterday cleaning the oven :rolleyes: my husband was looking after the children and unknown to me after coming home from the shop had given them ice lollies.

They were Callipo lemon and lime ones - a horrible fluorescent yellow/green colour. I did see him slope off with a roll of kitchen towel but he didn't say anything until about 1/2 hour later when I had finished in the kitchen - allowing the stain to set nicely! It was also all over one of the sofa seat cushion covers. I stick these regularly in the wash and have never known anything to stay on but low and behold it came out much as it went in. It is now in the wash again with some Ace bleach and my fingers are crossed.

Am more worried about the carpet though. Thankfully it is a dark green so the stain doesn't jump up and scream at you when you walk in the room but it is still obvious and right beside the sofa that we sit on most. Blotted everything then used a weak washing up liquid solution and blotted everything as I went along. Little change. Then dug up a stain devil (pre old-style days) for fruit juice, felt/highlighter pen etc. Little noticible difference and nothing appearing when blotting. I think whatever dye it was has grabbed on to the carpet fibres and I haven't much hope of getting it out. It is still a little damp this morning. I have a bottle of stardrops, an astonish carpet cleaning stick and also some regular carpet cleaner. ONly have malt vinigar left after a shower cleaning session. I don't want to mix some horrible cocktail though. Advice appreciated!

kscour

star drops worked on an old felt tip pen stain I had on my carpet - can now put the sofa wherever I want in the room instead of on top of the stain! It did spread slightly before it went so don't use too much water as I think that was my mistake.

pigeonpie

Our lease is up in a couple of months and a vase with very tired alstroemeria (yellow and red) flowers fell over and made a nasty stain. As I thought it was just water, didn't do much horror gasping until it dried...it has left an orange stain. I used carpetcleaner, can't remember the brand but not star drops (where do you get that? Didn't see it in Sainsbury's or Somerfield) but then someone told me that was the worst thing to do.
We've tried salt, no good. White wine helped a bit but it's still there. It's a light coloured beige carpet and I'm very worried about my deposit! Help please if you can.
This accident happened a few months ago and we've been just looking at it with dismay ever since, then today I saw this and thought I'd ask the experts out there
thank you!

kscour

pigeonpie wrote:

but not star drops (where do you get that? Didn't see it in Sainsbury's or Somerfield)

Got my stardrops in Asda, our Tescos doesn't stock it - morrisons does but charge alot more than asda. there is another thread about it on the board which will give you a list of places to get it
Oh Wilkinsons do it as well

livinginhope

For all our carpet stains,we seem to always run around going nee naa nee naa:rolleyes: ,I always always use fairy green household soap,I cannot praise it enough,boy I've bashed on about it long enough ,just wet the stain with water,not hot water,rub the bar in and keep sort of rinsing and patting trying not to overwet the carpet,it costs less than a quid for 2 bars and one bar lasts me about a year!:j

culpepper

When OH dropped a yellow bottle of printer ink on our beige carpet,I used vanish in a spray bottle.squirted and left for 5 mins then dabbed up with bounty,then repeated.It took about 6 goes to get it all off.

busymumof3

Thanks for all your suggestions. The stain is looking a lot less noticable after trying a bar of vanish soap used fairly sparingly, rinsing with water and patting. I may have another go today and see if there is more improvement. I am happy with how it looks even now though compared to how it was.

More good news is that the ace bleach has taken out the marks on the sofa cover after 2 attempts.

Pigeonpie I'd definitely give the vanish a good try.

Thanks everyone.

pigeonpie

Bless all of your cotton socks. I'm going to try. The carpet cleaning stuff just made it worse.
Do I Vanish before the green soap trick or the other way around?
It's not a good name for a product that when your deposit is at stake :S

busymumof3

Don't know about the Fairy soap pigeonpie, I just used the vanish bar but I would imagine Fairy is less harsh so you could start with that. Sparing both with soap and water would be my advice as lots of suds appear and keep blotting with a clean cloth. Fingers crossed for you. I had the same trauma a few years back with a scorch ring on a kitchen worktop in a house we were renting - perseverance paid off though and I eventually managed to bleach it off.

vivaladiva

Hi
If all else fails try a carpet cleaner called Release. (Google it to find the supplier.) My friends mum used to clean carpets professionally and this is what she used. We have four kids and a beige carpet so I have to spot clean ours on a regular basis. Release even did a pretty good job on a red bacardi breezer stain. (Husband knocked bottle over whilst mopping up bottle of beer he had just dropped. :rotfl: ) Apparently red food colouring is one of the worst stains to get out, but it sounds like the yellow/green is running a close second!