Bleaching Wool Carpet

So if you have found it absolutely necessary to use bleach for removing a stain from your carpet there are some steps you need to.

Bleaching wool carpet.

Wool is a natural material made from the fleece of lambs sheep and goats. Scoured wool fiber has a natural cream color due to naturally occurring pigments within the fiber. While it is most commonly associated with sweaters socks and other knits wool also serves to create eye catching hard wearing carpets. Do not use bleach on wool carpet and since bleach makes the carpet lighter it should never be used on any carpet rich in color as the color may fade away.

Washing rugs in standard issue chlorine bleach is the time honored traditional way to remove stains discolorations and colorants from fabrics. Loses color when exposed to light. Hypochlorite can damage cotton and will destroy wool and silk. Once lightened floor coverings can be easily dyed any color including white.

You can bring it back. The stain was intimidating but the rug was really nice so i was determined. First of all use bleach only if necessary and only if it s the last option left. When wool fiber is dyed the dyer takes into account the base color of the fiber and applies dyestuffs to achieve the desired shade occasionally the wool will contain a natural pigmentation which is light fugitive i e.

I recently took in a stray rug that had a pretty significant bleach stain. Hydrogen peroxide is the preferred bleaching agent for white wool and the safer bleaching agent for cotton. Bleaching wool using hydrogen peroxide please read the directions carefully before starting. If your wool has yellowed naturally or because of a bleach stain don t fear.

Using bleach to clean a carpet has its limitations. Bleaching a carpet eliminates or reduces its current color but the result is generally some shade of a beige tan or buff. White or natural color wools can yellow for a number of reasons ranging from age to the environment it s stored in. Also keep bleach away from very bright colored carpets and rugs because it can cause drastic fading and bleaching of the colors.

Depending on how intense the treatment is the rug. In fact bleach should be used mainly on white carpets which are not made of wool. This is especially true of polypropylene carpet.