BBC Stacey Solomon Sort Your Life Out expert hails cleaning hack he was 'desperate' to try
Stacey Solomon is back on TV tonight with the BBC's Sort Your Life Out, once again featuring cleaning guru Iwan Carrington teaching viewers how to maximise savings while cleaning.
He recently shared an essential tip for everyone looking to save money during this cost of living crisis.
It concerns the mattress, one of the most difficult to clean and, unfortunately, one of the easiest to stain places, often leading to the costly decision to replace it entirely.
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However, Iwan wants people to keep their expensive furniture for longer, in turn saving them money in the long run, and to do this, he has found a way to keep those stains at bay with kit you should have at home.
The hack in question is admittedly one he found online and was "desperate to try, and this is to remove stains from mattresses,' Iwan said speaking to the camera.
All you will need is bicarbonate of soda, laundry detergent, and an iron.
Iwan begins by mixing toothpaste, a laundry detergent pod and half a cup of warm water together, along with a spoonful of bicarbonate soda.
He mixes the elements in a bowl until it is a pasty substance, before soaking a cloth in it and wrapping it around a switched off iron.
'We're just going to iron this over the stain and watch it disappear," he confidently explains.
It isn't long until the stain does indeed start to disappear, as he continues: 'It is just disappearing before our eyes. Can you believe what you are seeing? It's gone.'
Stacey and the Sort Your Life Out team are heading to East Sussex tonight to transform the Jamieson's home which has been in their family for 40 years.
They will strip every item from the converted bungalow and display them all in a warehouse where they discover 106 animal ornaments, 87 board games and over 1,000 pieces of china.
As they sort through the decades of keepsakes, mum Nadine will reflect on her childhood and the challenges of raising her daughter.s
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