tips for cleaning and maintaining mattress and mattress cover
How to clean a stained mattress?

There are lots of methods to clean your mattress, choose the one that best suits you from this list! They can also be suitable for a mattress topper .
Cleaning with ammonia
- The recipe: mix a few drops of dishwashing liquid and a coffee cup of ammonia with 1 to 2 liters of water.
- Clean: remember to protect the skin of your hands with gloves for cleaning. Use a sponge or cloth, which you soak with the previously made solution. Rub the entire surface of the mattress, paying particular attention to the stained areas.
- Rinse: for this, use a washcloth soaked in clear water and wrung out. If the glove becomes colored, continue with another.
- Dry the mattress with the hair dryer set to a warm temperature.
Warning ! To be able to fall asleep the same evening on your mattress without being bothered by the smell of the product, clean it in the morning. Also leave the windows open throughout cleaning and drying, so as not to get intoxicated with ammonia fumes.
Clean a mattress with soda crystals
- The recipe: mix two tablespoons of soda with 2 liters of hot water. Stir well to homogenize the preparation.
- Clean: soak a sponge with this solution and wring it out thoroughly. Rub over the entire surface of the mattress.
- Rinse: with a washcloth soaked in clear water.
- Dry: here again, use the hair dryer in a warm position. Then sprinkle the mattress with talcum powder, which will absorb bad odors. Leave on for 8 hours, then vacuum.
Warning ! Although they are much less abrasive than ammonia, the soda crystals can attack the skin. Use household gloves to clean your mattress!
Clean a with white vinegar
This solution is probably the most ecological, think about it if the others seem too aggressive!
- The recipe: in a bowl, mix 500 ml of white vinegar and 2 tablespoons of dishwashing liquid with 200 ml of warm water.
- Clean: soak a sponge with this solution then wring it out. Rub the surface of the mattress with, proceeding in a 20 cm square.
- Rinse: with a time glove moistened with clear water.
- Dry: use a dry washcloth, which you will rub over the entire surface of the mattress.
Did you know ? White vinegar also exists in the form of a gel, which is very practical to use.
Cleaning the mattress with hydrogen peroxide and baking soda
It is not for nothing that baking soda is often used in grandmother’s recipes, it is very easy to use and for everything!
- The recipe: mix half a liter of 3% hydrogen peroxide with 4 tablespoons of baking soda. After shaking the mixture well, put it in a spray bottle and add a drop of washing up liquid.
- Clean: spray the solution over the entire surface of the mattress. Then sprinkle with a little baking soda. Leave on all day or put the mattress in the sun.
- It is not necessary to rinse.
- Vacuum to remove traces of bicarbonate.
Can you clean your mattress with a steam cleaner?
You can absolutely use a steam cleaner, but in view of the risk / benefit balance, we do not recommend it. Indeed, this tool is only effective if the mattress is not stained, and above all, if it wets the mattress too much, halos can form. On the other hand, the use of the steam cleaner is advisable to get rid of bedbugs and their bites .
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