Tips for removing Sudocrem from carpet?!?

[clairemow]

Anyone got any great tips for removing sudocrem from carpet?

DS (aged 2) woke up this morning, muttered a couple of words, then went v. quiet. I stupidly thought, oh he might have dropped off back to sleep, and turned over... But no, he had hold of a sudocrem tub (stupidly (again) left on the floor by me at 2.30 last night when he had done a nasty acid teething poo...), and had smeared it all over the furniture, bed, carpet, face (he didn't eat it luckily) etc. etc. But it's really oily and I can't get it out of the carpet...

Thanks!

What have you tried so far???? Cause I would hate to duplicate ideas you have allready used.

Have you tried baby wipes?

My DD loves doing this, last time she got it she had smeared it so thickly over her face she could hardly see

I always use babywipes for carpet, sometimes it takes a while but just keep going and it will work eventually - you should use the first one to try to scrape away as much as possible and then use the another to start cleaning it off.

Hot water with something like lemon or white vinegar to break up the grease then shampoo to get the smell out if using vinegar.

Mop up the worst of it, set the iron at a low heat and place grease proof paper/kitchen roll over the carpet before gently ironing over it to try and lift the grease out onto the paper?

Vanish

If babywipes aren’t shifting it (my first option too) try a soapy hot water solution to disperse and breakdown the oil base - just not too much wet as it will spread the stain.
Vanish Powershot is fantastic for most marks but not tried it on sudocrem yet...(not very eco friendly but gets ketchup, ribena and chocolate out of my cream carpets every time!)

Meths might not be very subtle, and you'd want to test it on an inconspicuous area of the carpet first, and it would stink, and you'd have to make sure the room would subsequently be well-ventilated etc. etc. etc. but I'm sure it would shift it.

Thanks for the tips, I tried the babywipes, but that just seemed to result in sudocrem smeared over a wider area, instead of just hand prints!! I wondered about alcohol, but that seems a waste of good gin - although not drinking it at the mo, as preg with no. 2 - saving it for after September!!!

Going to try the lemon/vinegar idea instead. Meant to be working now, so will have a scrub later - by which time of course it will be hardened on, so will have to try ironing it first to loosen it up!!! Can you tell what a devoted housewifey type cleaner I am?!

LOL@ me - in with the heavy chemicals.

Good luck let us know how you get on.

Will do.

Slightly different note, on the back of Sudocrem it says to consult a doctor if eaten - surely it can't be that harmful in small doses; it doesn't even have a child proofed lid, and is blatently most used by mothers using nappies. Suppose if you ate a whole tub... Guess this is the company covering its a*se. Still, warned DS's nursery in case he started to vomit white oily mixture of sudocrem and milk!

either that or it could have laxative qualities.

hot soapy water and rub and rinse

Use a tablespoon or a soup spoon and scrape it really quite hard from the edge into the centre so you dont spread it out any more.Then using a tea towel dipped in very hot water with a little splash of washing up liquid in it,but wrung out very well give it a little scrub.

Lemon juice diluted in warm water and scrubbing hard with a pan scourer worked a treat - esp. on the little finger marks. The bigger blobs were more difficult, but I think it's all gone now - the lemon seemed to dilute the oiliness. Once it's dry I'm going to have a last go with carpet stain remover, just to be sure!

Thanks for all the tips. Foul stuff. Lesson learnt, sudocrem now safely on top of v. high wardrobe... He won't be able to reach it until he's at least 15 - and hopefully he won't be in nappies by then!!

Lemon juice diluted in warm water and scrubbing hard with a pan scourer worked a treat - esp. on the little finger marks. The bigger blobs were more difficult, but I think it's all gone now - the lemon seemed to dilute the oiliness. Once it's dry I'm going to have a last go with carpet stain remover, just to be sure!

Thanks for all the tips. Foul stuff. Lesson learnt, sudocrem now safely on top of v. high wardrobe... He won't be able to reach it until he's at least 15 - and hopefully he won't be in nappies by then!!

Don't you have insurance that's what it's there for

Hot soapy water and lots of it. It does come out eventually and as for hair, well it comes out of that too eventually.