CTI - Pro's Choice - Red One Stain Remover - 1 Quart - 1075

I am so thankful to have found this stuff!Last week on Wednesday evening, I had my 6 year old son for the evening. As is our usual routine, once we get home from daycare, I usually give him something to drink and a snack depending on whether or not we’ve had dinner.The beverage of choice ranges from fruit punch, blue Gatorade, apple juice, water, or milk. No soda.I filled up an 8 ounce spill-proof cup with Crystal Light fruit punch and handed it to him.Two minutes later I sent him upstairs to release the dogs from their kennel so they could eat dinner and go outside.Being the obedient little boy he is, he went upstairs and let the dogs out and they came tearing down the stairs as usual, wolfed down their food, and then I took them out to the yard for probably 3-4 minutes.When I got back inside, He handed me his cup and said, “Dad, I need more drink please.” I said, “Wow, you must be thirsty!” and refilled the cup. We sat and chilled in the living room for about 90 minutes or so playing with LEGOs, got some of his homework done, etc.I was just about ready to have him head upstairs and put his pajamas on, but I decided to go up first and throw a load of laundry in the wash machine so it would be done by the time I went to bed later in the evening.As soon as I got up to the first landing, something caught my eye on the carpet and I looked down. And then I looked around me. I stood for a moment stunned. From the very first stair beginning in the living room, up to the landing, up the second flight of stairs, down the hallway, around the corner and into the bonus/dog’s room and to the kennel was a trail of bright red fruit punch. Not just a couple of drops of red here and there...but a zig-zagging continuous line broken up only by each stair. I reached down and put my hands on the spot. It was bone dry.At this point I wasn’t sure if he unscrewed the cap off his beverage or if I didn’t secure it tight enough, whatever… It didn’t really matter at this point it was too late. I asked him if he realized that his juice had spilled, he said no and looked shocked and really scared when he saw the carpet. He apologized profusely. I told him it was okay and that I would clean it up after he went to bed and not to worry about it. Based on the fact that he didn’t notice it, I figured he may have knocked the cup over or put it on the floor to unlock the kennel, and then on the way back downstairs is when it started to leak is my guess.Oh well. This is why I bought a carpet shampooer I thought to myself. I took some Oxiclean carpet shampoo, diluted it in a spray bottle, and pretreated the trail of red so it could soak in while I prepped the shampooer.I ran that damn carpet shampooer back-and-forth across the stain with heated Oxiclean carpet shampoo for over an hour and all it did was turn the dark red into a lovely shade of pink. As a bonus, the now saturated pink stain actually increased the width of the original stain!The next day I called a few professional carpet cleaners, and once they found out what the stain wise they all said the same thing: Minimum of $350-$500 and they could not guarantee that the stain would come clean.I did some research on Amazon, thinking I could not be the only one that has ever been blessed with a red Kool-Aid like stain on beige or white carpet.I stumbled upon “Red 1” Kool Aid Remover. After reading several reviews, the vast majority of them were positive and said that this stuff worked when everything else failed.I figured this was my Hail Mary pass. Either this stuff was going to work or I was going to end up spending money I didn’t have to professionally clean the carpet or end up replacing the carpet early next year with my whatever income tax refund I might get.I followed the directions and pre-treated every pink fiber of carpet, using nearly 3/4 of the bottle. Depending on how deeply set the stain was, the instructions said, the red would either disappear within an hour or you would have to add heat to the treated area to release the stain. It suggested using a steam iron over a towel or terry cloth or a steamer.I have a large garment steamer that I’ve had for years, and decided to try that versus the risk of melting my carpet onto the bottom of an iron.Within the first minute of the steam penetrating the carpet, the stain lighten significantly, and then disappeared! To my amazement every section I ran the steamer across and then blotted up with a towel...the towel turned pink and the stain on the carpet was gone. It took an hour and a half this evening to carefully go over every single area that was affected, but now it looks like the accident never happened at all!Trust me, if you spill something artificially colored red on your carpet, buy this stuff or have it on hand. Wine is a different story, because that is a natural dye and you can usually get that up with Oxiclean or a special red wine cleaner. Industrial red dye and/or artificially-colored red beverages like Kool Aid or Crystal Light are a completely different story!Thank you Red 1, Your product was worth every penny of the $30 I spent! It saved me hundreds if not thousands of dollars!

Worked so well to get red stain out of carpet!! Highly recommend!!!

I'm a grandparent and with 3 toddlers around, stains are inevitable. In the past we had small stains in their play room and though they were a bit unsightly, we never worried about them much. A recent spill came right in the middle of our great room and it was a rather large spill of the dreaded red kool aid. After a brief search I found this product with a claim that seemed rather boastful. I can honestly report that the product does exactly what it clams to do and it does it with amazing easy and completely eliminated any and all traces of the spill. As as extra special bonus, we gave it a try on some stains that have been around for a couple of year and it removed them in minutes.We applied this straight, undiluted, applying it in a light mist and wetting the affected area. After the application we placed a hot, wet washrag over the stain and covered it with an old towel, letting it sit for about 15 minutes. No scrubbing, no soaking, no heat, no steam, just a hot washrag and when we uncovered the stained area, it was 100% gone. I was as amazed as I am pleased with this product. It certainly does clean away stains and I will not hesitate to recommend this product. It deserves a 5 star rating.

Im so happy I purchased this product I actually saw someone using this on YouTube video, the results were amazing

Sometimes you make poor choices as a parent and you have to learn a lesson. Letting my ten year old have a grape snow cone (Kool Aid brand grape snow cone syrup) in our homeschool room in our pastel carpet was a poor choice. Where he finished, he left the cup sitting there. He didn’t put it away. I didn’t ask about it. I forgot about it. Somehow it got knocked over and we didn’t know until hours later.I tried regular carpet cleaner. I asked chat gpt. I tried vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, carpet cleaner again. I tried Tide with oxyclean. Nothing listed even a smidge of the purple out. Chat GPT recommended this product. I ordered it and had to wait 3 days to get it.I followed the steps another reviewer listed. I sprayed it. Let it sit for awhile. Nothing happened. I then sprayed it again, got my wet wash cloth, and my iron. You need the cloth to be wet. Not dripping, but wet. Soak it, ring out the extra and then use it. The first time I applied the heat the purple color went away almost instantly. I honestly don’t know where it went. I never lifted any of the red or purple out into the cloth or paper towels. It turned green. Apparently that’s a thing that can happen. I followed the steps again. It got a little of the green out. I did it a few times. I blotted the moisture. I dried it with a hair dryer. It looks a lighter in person than it does in the photos. My mom didn’t even notice it at first. It’s a lot less noticeable than the purple was that’s for sure.I’m glad someone else mentioned it because when you iron it and you lift the iron and cloth away it smells exactly like perm. I used to perm my hair all the time for years. You never forget that smell. It doesn’t linger really though.Overall, it didn’t completely rid the carpet of the stain. I knew having such a light colored carpet would be a pain to keep clean though. It did better than anything else I tried though. I may give it again other go tomorrow. I did read it could continue to fade over time. Either way, the bright purple stain is gone.

This product is amazing! I had a red Koolaid stain on my light carpet for years, nothing would remove it. I had to always position furniture to cover it. I saw this item and thought I'd try one more thing. It worked! Be sure to follow the directions. Spray the stain, cover it with a damp towel, iron the towel to provide heat and steam, and the stain disappeared! Highly recommend this if you have red stains anywhere.