Cleaning question: Murphy's oil soap?

[Gendenwitha]

My son just got into a big can of Murphy's oil soap (left by previous owners--the can looks about 50 years old & was 1/2 way full). It's now in a rug, his clothes, a couch, and two old towels used to clean it up. Fortunately, the largest amount was dumped on the pergo wood floor I use the stuff to clean.

[lightheart]

(((Hugs))) For the towels and the clothes rinsing them a bunch to get all the soap out... if your willing to trash them might want to get something to store them in, cut them up and use them for pre-soaped rags, could use them when you did your regular cleaning, just add them to a bucket of water.

for the wood floor and carpet, I don't know, just try and get it all up.

I know that soap will actually attract dirt, we used to blow bubbles in the house until I realized that where they landed and popped would always be dirtier, started getting little round spots all over the place.

Good luck!

[rainyday]

Is it in a rug that's movable or in a wall-to-wall carpet? If it's in a carpet, I'd rent a carpet cleaning machine and run it (without any additional soap ), emptying the reservoir and refilling with fresh water, over and over until it's not sudsing. Then I'd clean the rest of that room's carpet to avoid having one overly clean spot!

If it's a rug that's washable, I'd drag it outside and spray it with the hose until it's not sudsing any longer. If it's not washable, I'd take it to a professional rug cleaning place and let them do it.

[Gendenwitha]

Thank you. The carpet looks okay (of course it's so dirty anyway who can tell) It is removable so I might try that. but it involves moving furniture so I'm not doing it until I have some help. The weird one is that it make a bleach-like mark on the couch. These are OLD inherited couches that my aunt got when I was a little girl, so we're talking 25 yrs old but most of that time they belonged to single older woman so they held up pretty well (until we got them 3 yrs ago). So I'm wondering if it just got that spot REALLY clean, or if it bleached it a little? I don't know.