Best Upholstery Cleaner Sprays
We smeared fabrics with chipotle in adobo, curry, and more to find out if Folex, Resolve, and Woolite spray cleaners as well as a DIY solution removed the stains
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A few months ago, I grabbed a jar of Tostitos Salsa con Queso dip in my living room to snack on with some chips. I opened the jar, lost my grip on the glass, and spilled half of its contents all over my light-pink velvet couch. After scraping away most of the dip and blotting the large area with paper towels, I took a step back to assess the damage.
There was an awful, orange stain on my once-pink couch. I don’t own a portable carpet cleaner, and it was way past the local hardware store’s operating hours, so I just left the stain alone before blotting it with a wet paper towel the next day. I mostly forgot about it, until a rude guest happened to point out the discoloration on the couch. A few months later, the stain was still there, though the dip smell had at least dissipated by then.
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What finally drove me to try to get rid of the stain was Frank, my adorable, but very nervous rescue cat. During his first night home with me, he peed on my couch—right over the orange queso stain. A frantic visit to my local pet store sent me home with a box of baking soda, a spray cleaner that smelled worse than my cat’s pee, and a hopeless warning from the shop salesperson that my couch would never be the same again. Comforting.
