stardrops in a vax?

Prudent

Does anyone know if I can use stardrops in my vax to wash the carpets? It would be much chepaer than the usual shampoo for these machines.

Churchmouse

There are those that have, but be careful, Stardrops is very sudsy. You'll need fabric conditioner in the waste tank to kill the suds!!

Prudent

How much fabric conditioner do you put in?

Bossyboots

Actually, I just use a large sprinkle of household salt to kill suds.

aimeelister

Ive used Stardrops in my Vax and it works better than the vax cleaner your meant to use!! I put the same amount of stardrops as your meant to use of the vax cleaner and then put a dash of the economy fabric conditioner in the collector. In fact i forgot to put the conditioner in last time i cleaned the carpets and it was a bit frothy but still worked fine!

lynzpower

Ive used it in mine too, way cheaper

fruit-loop

I have a bissell rather than a vax but I use star drops in it. IMHO it works far better than the expensive cleaners bissell sell.

heatherw_01

I have put stardrops in my bissell and it worked fine.

Ghost

Am I the only stardrops virgin?

What can you use if for and, besides Tesco, where else can you buy it?

For those of you that use it in your vax wet & dry machine, do you have an upright vax or the cylinder one?

Thanks

jos22

Ghost

Plenty of reading here on uses for stardrops http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=172073&highlight=stardrops

Seems to be available everywhere Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Wilko.

I have used in a cylinder Vax type cleaner - I forgot the salt in the collector so had plenty of suds.

D&DD

Another convert here I spent a forune on carpet cleaners til I read on here about stardrops..I used a capful of Lenor (with added fabreze) in with 3 caps of stardrops and its brought my carpets up better than anything I've ever used :T