DIY Homemade Carpet Powder Cleaner

This DIY Homemade Carpet Powder Cleaner is an easy, non toxic, budget friendly way to deodorize your carpets and rugs.  

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Carpet can make a room comfortable and homey, but it can be difficult to keep clean.  Especially if you have pets and kids.  Getting out urine odor from pets can be a big challenge.

Those commercial carpet powder cleaners are expensive, and they contain synthetic fragrance and mystery chemicals that aren’t healthy, especially for young children and pets who tend to spend a lot of time on the floors. 

Synthetic fragrance is one of the most unhealthy ingredients in commercial cleaning products.  It can have all kinds of impacts on our health, mainly to hormones.  And when our hormones get out of whack, we end up having more health issues.  It’s a vicious cycle.

This homemade carpet deodorizer and refresher is simple to make with a common kitchen ingredient and essential oils.

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Benefits of using a Carpet Refresher Powder

This simple homemade carpet powder cleaner utilizes the deodorizing and cleansing power of baking soda, and doTERRA Purify Cleansing Essential Oil Blend to help clean carpets and get rid of funky smells.   You could also use Lemon essential oil instead of the Purify if you have it.

Supplies for your Homemade Carpet Powder

Here’s what you’ll need to make this carpet powder:

Mason Jars and lids with holes in them

I found these cute lids that are perfect for your homemade carpet powder.  (Your kids – or let’s be honest – YOU,  will also love using them for putting a straw in with drinks) They already have the holes cut into them in the top so they are perfect for sprinkling the carpet powder.You can use the extras for your spices. 

They fit onto standard mouth mason jars which you’ll want to use to store your carpet powder.

These are the mason jars that go with the lids shown above.  You can use any brand jar that is the same size and they should work with those lids.

Baking Soda

You most likely have this in your kitchen pantry already.  Baking Soda is a staple for all natural green cleaning. I usually buy the large bags of it from Costco because I use it for so many homemade cleaning products.

Essential Oil

I use doTERRA Purify blend in this because it is designed specifically for getting rid of odors in the home. You could use Lemon Oil if you don’t have Purify.

How to Use Homemade Carpet Powder

Once you have your carpet powder made, it’s simple and easy to use.  

1. To use your carpet powder,  sprinkle it on your carpet so that you have a light coating.
2. Let it sit on the carpet for 1 – 2 hours so that the mixture can soak up any orders that are embedded in the carpet.   
3. After it has been on your carpet for 1 – 2 hours, simply vacuum it up!

The trickiest part about this is that you’ll want to let the powder sit on your carpet for 1 – 2 hours.  So you’ll have to pick a time when you’re not going to be using the room.  This is hardest if you have toddlers or young kids.  Use that naptime!  

And be sure to keep pets out of the room.  They’ll track the powder through the rest of the house and some may even try to eat it. 

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