Urine Stain Removal Guide

Below are urine stain removal tips and techniques for clothing, upholstery, carpet, and mattresses, with step by step instructions.

Whether you are in the throes of potty training or your pet has an accident on the carpet, you want to clean up urine as quickly as possible.

Generally, the directions below work on both human and pet urine, such as dog urine and cat urine.

However, my focus in this article is to give tips for removing human urine. If you need to remove pet urine check out this page on pet stain removal.

Urine Stain Removal From Clothing

Step 1: Run the fabric, inside out, under the cold (not warm or hot) water to flush out as much of the urine as possible.

Step 2: Pretreat the stain with liquid laundry detergent containing enzymes, soaking for 30 minutes in cold water, or in the alternative pretreat with an enzyme pretreater. Do not use hot water.

Hint: If the stain is older, you may need to soak even longer, perhaps even overnight.

Step 3: Launder in the hottest water the fabric will allow to get out the stain, and either chlorine bleach if the fabric will allow it, or oxygen bleach if not.

Hint: Make sure the stain is gone after washing, but before you place in the dryer or you may set the stain.

Removing Urine Stains From Upholstery

Step 1: Blot any excess urine from the upholstery, being careful not to spread the stain or grind it into the upholstery.

Step 2: Mix a solution of two cups cool water, one tablespoon dishwashing liquid, and one tablespoon of vinegar.

Step 3: Using this solution, sponge the spot with a clean white cloth.

Step 4: Next, blot at the stain until the liquid is absorbed.

Step 5: Repeat steps 3-4 until the spot from the urine is removed from the upholstery.

If that removes the stain skip down to step 7. Otherwise, continue on with the next step.

Step 6: If the stain remains use an eye dropper to apply a few drops of 3% hydrogen peroxide to the spot, followed by a few drops of ammonia.

Hint: Test both the hydrogen peroxide and ammonia in an inconspicuous location of your upholstery to make sure it does not harm it before using either on your urine stain.

Step 7: Now that the stain is removed you should get plain cold water and a new white cloth and sponge the area to remove the cleaning solution, and then blot dry.

Hint: Be sure to get the upholstery only as wet as necessary to remove the stain from the urine.

You can get more information on how to clean upholstery here.

How To Remove Urine Stain From Carpet

The instructions for urine stain removal from carpet is the same as for upholstery.

How To Remove Urine From Mattress

The instructions for removing urine from a mattress are quite similar to the instructions above for removing urine from upholstery.

You can also check out this article and video for removing urine on a mattress.

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CAUTION: This website is provided for informational purposes only. It is provided as is, without warranties or guarantees. Some stains and messes just won't come out, and are permanent. Further, some cleaning methods can harm your item, so if what you want to clean or launder is sentimental or expensive call a professional. See disclaimer of liability for more information.