Vanish Gold Carpet Care Powder

Has blessed my shag rug with new life. Easy to use and extremely effective. It does have a "smell" but if like me a lot of fragrance gives you a headache this one is an inoffensive, clean smell that eases off quickly after it's been hoovered up. I can imagine if you have a weaker vacuum you may have issues but it lifted no bother with a Henry - did take a few passes and a bit of attention to detail on a very thick, dense pile like mine. So perhaps not the choice for you if you have very thick rugs and/or a slightly pathetic hoover. I do think you will get better results depending on how well you scrub it in and how miserly you are with product; apply generously and scrub vigorously, particularly if you're using on a dense rug, and it will return the effort, the product works if you work it. The other reviews regarding the packaging are correct, it would be a bloody nightmare especially not using the full dose, save yourself the faff and decant it directly into a big sealable plastic tub or zip loc, it's not any more difficult to spread that way. I can see what they were going for with the design but it is patently, rubbish, bypass entirely. I had no issues sprinkling it using a shaking motion out the corner of a tub, or use a scoop. Seriously, just don't bother with the packaging. I got half covered in the product while it was still "sealed" during the shake well stage of the instructions. Decant it, you won't have issues. Absolutely will order again however the amount I received was very generous, more than half leftover after one medium area rug and a generous application, so it might be a while before I need to order again. That said my rug has come up like brand new and is lovely and clean and soft feeling to touch as if it's been fully shampooed with infinitely less faff than renting a rug doctor and lugging it upstairs. A 10/10 household product (if you ignore the packaging).

A bit of hard graft getting it into the fibres, but well worth the result. Fibres felt softer, definitely looked cleaner and this was on a near white, large rug with stains. Worth the effort, saved the rug from going to the tip.

Excellent product. it ticks all the boxes, cleans, freshners, smells nice, revives carpet. value for money. very happy with the results after using it

This seemed to work and provide a decent scent to the area cleaned for a couple of days. I'm not sure if the granules actually provide any cleaning properties or whether they just make the carpet look clean because they refract light differently to wool? I'm a little unsure as to their effectiveness but they added a decent scent for a day or two. I don't think I'd buy them again because I'm not sure they actually cleaned anything.

My wife has been using the product and is very happy with the outcome after use.

We invested in new carpets last year and a year later, they are starting to look a bit tired. Not particularly dirty, but slightly flattened and not like new. The online reviews and YouTube video for this product seem to show it refreshes carpets. It takes a bit of effort to get results - but I would say it's worth it. Our lounge carpet is about 15 sq metres and this product is a perfect amount for it. Following the instructions I sprinkled on the powder and worked in with a clean hand brush in sections. This took about an hour to do the whole carpet. I left for another 30 mins. I then started to vacuum up, slowly in order to maximise the effect. A word of warning - if using a cordless vacuum (we have a Dyson v7) it fills the bin REALLY quickly. I had to empty 5 times in cleaning the carpet. But the results are worth it. The carpet smells fresh and returned to a springy feeling. It also almost shines (not sure if they use optical brighteners in the product). I've now subscribed to this every 2 months in order to keep out carpets lasting longer and fresher. I would recommend

I did my lounge and bedroom carpets, it's easy to use, shake it on, brush it in, wait, hoover it up. It made a difference, carpets look cleaner, having a back problem, I found the brushing it in quite a chore, hoovering is always a chore, I left it for an hour or more, and then hoovered it I have to say I think it'll need hoovering again as it doesn't look as if it's all up, I took the filter out of hoover and rinsed it straight after I hoovered, as a friend left heres and she said it set like stone, I find the smell over powering, it's nit all that pleasantl, I can't even tjinn if anything it smells like. A lavender smell would be better suited, but it's definitely caught the back of my throat, I personally wouldn't use it again, it's easier and not much more to rent the rug Dr and do the whole house. I'm not looking forward to hoovering again later. My cat doesn't like to walk on the cleaner carpets now, strange little thing that she is. I also knocked a glass of vimto over onto the powder, not a great start.

I have a light brown carpet fitted through two rooms. The carpet is maybe 18 years old and, despite frequent vacuuming, certainly shows a well trodden route across it. The fabric is actually very good but the ingrained unmoveable track marks had me thinking a new carpet was well overdue. I considered hiring a carpet cleaner but thought the carpet was too far gone for that. This was just a gamble for a few pounds I bought this stuff and read the instructions. Set aside a morning and acquired a hand scrubbing brush. I shook the bag before I opened it and sprinkled the moist powder lightly over about a metre square, I scrubbed it in until that area was uniformly white, adding a little more where there wasn't enough, the surplus got brushed across to start the next square .. you get the idea. I had used about 2/3rds of the bag and had a white slightly damp carpet, I went out for a few hours to ensure the powder was completely dry (the instructions say it should be dry in about 20 minutes but the important thing seems to be that it is dry). I started to vacuum and, as I had just poured 500g of powder down, there was 500g to come back up. It filled my poor stick cleaner three times. The difference was amazing but there were still some track mark remnants in the very heavy areas, I sprinkled the remaining powder just over these areas; scrubbed, dried and vacuumed - job done. If you find you have ultra clean areas by over scrubbing, do not panic - a few days of normal footfall will even it all out I thought I would try £14 before spending £3000 - glad I did

This item is amazing . If u have kids it's a must to have .

Fast delivery good quality

I regret using this product on our carpet. - Did not clean carpet, All stains remained as it is. - Could not get rid off all powder even after vacuuming more than 5 times. - Clogged my vacuum machine. even after cleaning vacuum machine filters several times seems like efficiency of my vacuum machine dropped allot. This is a good powerful 1800W machine we are using for couple of years. -Powder settled everywhere which is another headache to clean -Not sure how much went inside our lungs!!

This pack was opened and wrapped with plastic bubble and tape. Are we serious about this?! No return for the product even! Shameless

Quality is poor and cheap.Smells bad