Cleaning sun lotion from a carpet
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Any carpet cleaners on here?
Doing a bit of tidying up and found an old bottle of the oily liquid spray-on sun lotion on a window sill - as I picked it up the bottle just shattered (old UV damaged brittle plastic I guess) and deposited half a bottle of the stuff on 2 or 3 on the treads of the stairs underneath. It soaked straight in to the extent that I couldn't see where it had gone - tried to use kitchen towel/wipes to soak it up but it was too late. Used a carpet shampooer on it and went to town but didn't make much difference, and the smell of it is overpowering - can now just about see the slightly darker place where it must have spilled.
After a little online searching I chucked down a load of bicarb on it and left it for 24 hours but I guess it was too little too late.
Any suggestions? Will a professional carpet cleaner be able to sort it or is it a case of either get used to the smell, spray something less unpleasant there instead, or new carpet (absolute last resort as it's one of the few reasonable bits of carpet in the house and I don't want to get the whole landing and stairs done...
Pic below, the slightly darker patches are, I assume where most of it went...
Doing a bit of tidying up and found an old bottle of the oily liquid spray-on sun lotion on a window sill - as I picked it up the bottle just shattered (old UV damaged brittle plastic I guess) and deposited half a bottle of the stuff on 2 or 3 on the treads of the stairs underneath. It soaked straight in to the extent that I couldn't see where it had gone - tried to use kitchen towel/wipes to soak it up but it was too late. Used a carpet shampooer on it and went to town but didn't make much difference, and the smell of it is overpowering - can now just about see the slightly darker place where it must have spilled.
After a little online searching I chucked down a load of bicarb on it and left it for 24 hours but I guess it was too little too late.
Any suggestions? Will a professional carpet cleaner be able to sort it or is it a case of either get used to the smell, spray something less unpleasant there instead, or new carpet (absolute last resort as it's one of the few reasonable bits of carpet in the house and I don't want to get the whole landing and stairs done...
Pic below, the slightly darker patches are, I assume where most of it went...
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