Best Carpet Cleaning Products

It's Magic – We bought a unit that the renters obviously had a tom cat that pee'd all over the carpet in the bedrooms. We knew we would have to replace the carpet… Read more

as it was so stained, so we had it pulled up and thrown out, then used Urine Free on the concrete floor and around the edges where the carpet was attached as it still stunk. After about an hour the smell was completely gone, and I say completely, this stuff is magic.

I've tried other upholstery and carpet cleaning products with no success. Have recently purchased this product and its fabulous, thank you ! Very… Read more

clever design with the brush and foam pad 7 washes up easily. Its removed everything I've tried it on and no residue after a light damp cloth. Am not one for doing reviews but the quality and design of this product is worth it.

Amazing product – I found an old tin of this cleaner at the back of my cupboards, that was my now deceased mother's. I have been battling a stain of Calcium Chloride… Read more

on my ensuite carpet where it spilled months ago. Nothing was working and I don't have a wet & dry vacuum cleaner. People will tell you that this liquid from moisture absorbers is dreadful, as it will keep on drawing moisture into your carpet. Anyhow, with nothing to loose I sprinkled it on the 40 x 30cm stain and left it. Then I read a bit more about how the stain is very difficult to get rid, so went back an hour or so later and vacuumed it up. The stain was reduced. So I did it again today and can't really see the stain at all and the carpet is no longer sticky. Hooray !! Off to buy a new tin.

Goes ok on new stains – Have used it several times and the results depend on how bad the stain . It leaves white marks on the carpet tgat come up later

sprayed an stain spot with this and got worse so do no recommended Show details

This is the BEST carpet spot product I have ever used. I spilled spaghetti sauce on a light carpet last night. Long Life came to the rescue and the… Read more

carpet looks new. I can not believe a few reviews have been negative, as this product is "carpet spot magic"!

On Friday 8th May 2025 I bought the Enzyme Wizard Oven & Cooktop Cleaner so could clean the Cuisinart GOURMET PRO MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMBI OVEN because… Read more

this recommended to me by Cuisinart and I am extremely expressed with the results so if you have this oven I would highly recommend buying this.

This floor polish has ruined my hard wood flooring. Left awful streaks even when following the instructions too a T. Used their ammonia cleaner and… Read more

then did what it said on the bottle and came out horrible, have just mopped the floor 8 times to get it back to the state it was in before

Best product – I've used it for over 15 years ...while doing new house cleans , bond cleans, corporate cleans , domestic cleans I have never found a product as good on getting most things off tiles  Show details

Great product – This is a safe and very good product to keep on hand for whenever you get a smudge on your precious carpets. If it's not the kids, it's the dog but this just keeps up like a real trooper Show details

Why can't I buy the glitz carpet cleaner from bunnings anymore. Or where can I now buy it. IT was the best I have ever used Show details

Normally I use Dish soap/disinfectant to clean the floors and it works like a breeze. I decided to try an actual floor cleaner for my tiles in the… Read more

kitchen/dining, it left the most ODD sticky residue that only sticks to shoes/slippers, not socks? so far I've washed it a 2nd time without this cleaner to try and fix the sticky, and I swear it made it worse, so ill have to wash the floor a few more times just to remove the sticky. I do not recommend.

Leaves tonnes of residue – I have used this twice on my floors both times I used the directed amount correctly. The floors came up spotted even in the first room I used it in.… Read more

Had to go over it with a dry cloth once it was dry. Then every time something walked over it over an hour later, the foot prints were visible. Would never buy it again. Went over my floor with a dettol mop and floors looked so much better.

Mother of floor cleaner liquids – The more I used this product the more I fall in love with it. Floor was shining more than my eyes and the wife was blossoming more than anything. But… Read more

then the evil fall upon and the bottle got over. Went to every church and temple to find this charm again.. the almighty said.. good days are over my child "I don't make this beauty anymore..!!!

Exactly what I needed – I moved into an old rental that needed more cleaning. Previous tenants had had a cat. And there was a smell. Probably as much ‘old weatherboard and… Read more

old carpet’ as well as cat smell. Initially I tried bicarb as it’s one of my go to’s. In the meantime I washed the walls and cupboards in borax but But the carpet still had an old smell. Anyway Preen Vanish powder was my second attempt. I used my out door broom to brush it in.

Anyway! Wow! It pulled up so much cat hair and lint and dust.

The product does have a strong ‘perfume’. I just kept windows open through the day. But it does at it says Re neutralising smells and lifting pet hair and dust etc from the carpet. My house no longer smells.

Picture below is from one of the rooms and what the preen pulled up (I had already tried bicarb and hadn’t had much luck). I don’t believe previous tenants had the floor steam cleaned despite what the realestate told me.

These are the best floor wipes i’ve tried. They are very wet and strong and do a great job in between mopping. However, they don’t seem to sell them… Read more

in the tub anymore. I do buy the refill pack but I have to put them in a container to stop them from drying out. The package needs to be cut open, then I put a slit in the inner package for easy access. Please bring back the tub or maybe some sort of resealable packaging.

I found the tiles very slippery when wet, after using this product. No real explanation as to why from the distributor.

Great ethical, plant based natural cleaner for wood floors – Heavenly smell , clean floor nil residue, question economics of spraying directly from bottle. If your floor is not shiny before application it wont be shiny afterwards. Easy to use. Show details

Absolute crap product – Freedom Carpet Cleaner by SC Johnson totally bad product. Didn’t lift or remove any of the dog stains from my carpet. Tried it on food stains. Nup..… Read more

stains still there after trying. Doesn’t dry in 30 minutes like it says on the can and leaves a wet smudge mark on your carpet. I wouldn’t waste my money again on this crap product. Zero star rated product.

OK - here's a complete review of my experience with this product for the benefit of people who got a CAT-pee-smell problem somewhere they want to get… Read more

rid of permanently.

My problem .... turns out my cat had been peeing in the same spot for some time. Why we never realised before I'll never know. Maybe we'd got used to the smell.

The location was in a corner under a table in our lounge where it's dark.

We eventually realised our problem was one morning there was a new addition we did smell. It was only then we realised it's a problem we've had for some time.

To our horror, we discovered about 60 cm x 30 cm. of carpet was destroyed.

How we hadn't seen it / smelled it before is a complete mystery. You wouldn't think it was possible. Maybe we simply got used to the smell over time.

chat GPT reckons this is common with cat pee.

For the benefit of the remainder of this screed, my solution was a no-brainer.

No way of saving the carpet here so a complete removal of the carpet area along with underlay back to the floorboards and those strips with spiky bits in them where the pee had gone underneath. Everything was long-soaked in cat pee and stunk of cat - big time.

(As an aside, ... our house is on the market ... dah! ... so I decided I wasn't going to simply get a bottle of something, spray it on and hope for the best.)

I needed a no-compromise permanent result.

The carpet area was to be completely removed and a patch inserted.

I'm not sure how I'd have fared if it was a on a carpet in an open area.

I tried that once and it was almost a useless exercise - no matter how much I washed/sprayed the area nothing seemed to work. I guess the spray just wouldn't reach all of the mess underneath.

Fortunately the smell went away over time after my efforts which was mostly ineffective.

(In that event again, on a carpet, I'd probably get it cut out and a repair patch installed - cleaners have a big problem getting to all the pee soaked in to carpet, underlay and floorboards and if it doesn't it's going to be a useless and maybe costly exercise).

If this happens and you give it a go I'm pretty sure the reliable process would be similar for a decent result.

How I approached this ...

Fortunately, I had time.

House inspections stopped over Christmas period and weather was to my advantage. (Weather? It's January in Melbourne and warm - so easy to dry stuff).

I went to chatGPT and had a long discussion about how to get rid of cat-pee, what I should use and how I should do it.

chatGPT was really useful - told me to use enzyme cleaners not cleaning stuff - stay clear of Ammonia and Bleach which would make the problem worse.

Sought out possible Australian solutions for me and even did a review of this product to check it's (apparent) suitability for my needs.

Told me, regardless of product I chose to cover area, leave it overnight, keep repeating as necessary and how important letting it dry is.

Told me ... literally step-by-step technique.

1. Completely clear the carpet.

Remove underlay.

Back to floorboards.

Clean the area - maybe even use enzyme cleaner for liquid as cleaner.

I didn't, I simply used neat water - with nothing in it - and I used a carpet/furniture spray suction gizmo to suck it up. (There's a review on this website for that - I like it - it's been really useful).

And I did that several times until drained water cleared

While it didn't get rid of the smell as that had soaked into floorboard and gone down joints it did do a good job of cleaning most of the dirt-mess and gave me a clean area to work with.

2. Then I let the area dry overnight.

3. Next day, as per instructions on spray bottle, spray enzyme cleaner liberally over all of area - and then covered with plastic film and leave overnight to give cleaner time to work.

4. Next day I cleaned the area with water again with the suction gizmo and cleaned up everything again including cleaner residue. (Product suggests not removing excess and just let it dry). The water in the cleaner was still a bit cloudy so I was sucking up something.

5. Let it mostly dry then liberally sprayed the area again - covered it with plastic and left it overnight.

6. Next day, checked the area using the nose test.

Even at that point I think I'd done the job, but there's was plenty of cleaner left over so decided to keep doing (5) as many times as needed until I was confident the smell had gone.

If you don't, smell will come back to haunt you after you put carpet back.

7. I think I only really only needed 2 goes but I did one more. Gave it to my lady to check out - she's happy.

8. Uncover area and leave to fully dry - both chatGPT and product instructions say this is where the enzyme cleaner works best - in the drying process.

9. Once dry - do the nose test.

10. Even a slight whiff - keep doing (5)+(6) until it's gone - and it will eventually go completely.

Might take several days but what's the point of not doing the job properly.

You'll eventually regret it if it comes back

Once I was satisfied the smell had gone, I liberally sprayed the area again but this time left it uncovered so the excess cleaner dried on it.

Left it for 2 days before I put a carpet patch back.

Area must be completely dried - and surrounding carpet edge was damp from cleaner.

OK - the product ... this is the one in the Red squirter bottle 'Nature's Miracle - Advanced - severe mess enzymatic formula'.

Add to that - the bottle carries a "Guaranteed to work or your money back' statement.

Image attached.

All I can say is I did a lot of online research prior to purchase and this product eventually seemed the best option - and I wasn't going to buy anything that compromised my chance of success.

Cost-wise it's in the ball-park of others and the bottle 970ml is a useful size.

It took me a while to find some to buy - plenty of this for dogs but not for cats. Even Petbarn I had to check 5 stores for supply. (Petbarn was really helpful).

If you choose to use this - make sure you check store has stock before you go - and make sure you say for cat or dog as required. Products are different. (Dog stuff seems to cost less)

My result.

OK - I get the manufactured perfume smell people complain about can be an issue - it's quite strong but smells better than cat-pee. Besides, it will diminish over time.

I can almost say 1 liberal dousing of the area might have done - as per the instructions - but you still gotta cover it and let it do it's job.

For my part - I reckon cleaner left in a bottle isn't much value - so why not use as much as you have to to make sure you get the job done.

Enzyme cleaners (apparently) take time to clear away smells.

Instructions on bottle confirm this.

I left it covered overnight and addressed where I was every day until I was 100% satisfied I got rid of the smell 100%.

So I gave it 3 goes - gave it a last spray, without cleaning it away and let it dry completely.

Then I cut a patch of carpet out of a cupboard that never sees the light of day. Thanks to YouTube videos on how to do that. (My repair job was OK for this location, but if the area was in more visible place on carpet, I suggest get a professional to repair carpet).

My result ... mission accomplished.

And, to me, that's the important bit - not speed I'll regret later.

Cat-pee is a horror and the danger is, it seems, you can get used to it but any visitors to your house will pick it up straight away when they enter your home.

That's what I think happened to us.

I give the product 5* - because it seems to do what it promises.

It's only got 1 job and it got the job done.

BTW - there's a recommendation that a layer of shellac resin is used to cover floorboards and lock any smell left in. I didn't find the need to do this.

Maybe that will change at some time.

I hope Coles reads these reviews and takes note!!! These new biodegradable wipes are rubbish! Firstly, the packaging is not designed to be resealed… Read more

(I guess being a “refill” pack they expected us to know they no longer have the old wipes in a tub and these were supposed to refill the tub that most of us have thrown away) and when you try to pull one of these sloppy wipes out they knot up and all come out together. You can try to reseal the pack with tape but because the wipes are so wet the liquid oozes out and stops the tape from sticking. Now, I could put them in a zip lock bag or maybe go out and buy a new container but I shouldn’t have to do this.

Now lets move onto using the wipes. I finally got one out of its packet, popped it on my mop head and start cleaning. Oh wait, the wipe seems to have stuck to the floor and pulled off the head. Pop it back on and try again, nope, it keeps happening. I persist and finally get a small section of my floor cleaned before the wipe needs replacing but by now I’m annoyed and give up. This section of floor is now dry but I can see visible smudges everywhere!!

I’ll keep these wipes for emergencies but WILL NOT be buying these again.

Clean, sanitized and hygienic! – I purchased this formula with my Bissell Little Green Spot and Stain Remover/Cleaner and it works very well. You only need a cap full in the Bissell… Read more

tank which will cover a two seater fabric covered lounge easily. You'll be surprised with how much grime and dirt is sucked out! It leaves a nice smell and doesn't over saturate the furniture. Perfect to use for going over the top of your mattress to keep it sanitized, and if you have pets, it's does eliminate some pee-odours, but you may have to let the areas dry once, then run it over a second time or more depending on the nature of the fabric and how messy it was.

I highly recommend it.

Disgraceful – Got Cavalier Bremworth Carpet Stain Remover 3 weeks ago and it left white stain marks a good metre of white patch's on our near new brown Carpet. We cannot get white marks out now. Would like company to replace carpet. Not happy Jan!

Best stuff on the market – I use it in my cleaning business, it's so economical and takes all the hard work out of cleaning! I use all of the products, both at work and in my home. Couldn't be happier with them