CTI 1075-QT Red 1 Synthetic Stain Remover

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!

I spilled Crystal Light Blackberry Lemonade on my cheap, builder's grade off-white/beige-y carpet in my rental. Nothing got it out--reg. water, vinegar, dawn dish soap, hydrogen peroxide, oxyclean...nothing helped and it was now time to move out. Agh! I bought this in desperation and followed the directions exactly and IT WORKED. I did have to do the heat activation/spray/clean a few times, but every tiny thing came out!This stuff ifms incredible!

My great nephew spilled his red Hawaiian Punch on my carpet. My carpet is a light grey. I tried to blot it up, but the stain remained. I looked up any products specifically made for red stains and I came across this product! When I received it, I sprayed some on the stain, covered it with a damp towel and went to bed. The next morning, it was completely gone! I was amazed! No fading to my carpet, and no one can see where the red stain had been! Highly recommend this product!!

I wasted red punch on white carpet - it was a mess. I thought the carpet was ruined. I saw this product on YouTube and decided to try it. I am not affiliated in any way with this company. It arrived in 2 days, and it removed the red punch stain 100%. I also used it to get out urine stains from my puppy and it worked perfectly in removing the yellow urine stain. If you have old or new stains -follow the instructions with a damp cloth and steam iron and have a dry cloth nearby to plot up the excess.

A drink with a Sonic cheery limeade packet was spilled on my very expensive wool rug. We tried resolve, oxy carpet cleaner, rubbing alcohol, Grandmothers spot remover, club soda, dawn soap and mean green and nothing would fully get the red/pink stain out of our rug until we tried this product several days after the spill. I poured a small amount onto a rag then dabbed onto my rug. I then laid a wet white cloth on the stain and put my steam iron on top of that for 5 seconds and the pink stain disappeared entirely in the majority of our spots. It appears some of the pink may have turned yellow after this process but with the colors in my rug you can’t really tell and is much preferred over the pink stain. Yes, it does stink like 80’s perm but the smell goes away. I called a professional carpet cleaner who said they used this product and they did warn me that some areas could turn yellow or that red may turn pink and not completely come out. He said wool was very tricky but this appeared to work great on my wool rug.