Do cleaning powders really work?

     The majority of carpet cleaning issues involve cat and dog urine removal. Ask any smart elementary school student or high school sophomore and they will quickly point out that because cat and dog urine are liquids they will quickly penetrate the carpeting, padding and eventually the sub floor.

     Well then, how can a cleaning powder or saw dust type cleaner possibly work? Cleaning powders really can't. At best cleaning powders can absorb some measure of the wet fresh pet urine but will be absolutely ineffective at actually removing the pet urine because a powder simply cannot penetrate and get at the pet urine.

     We have tested the best known cleaning powders and they are mediocre because of their inherent inability to absorb the urine that has penetrated the carpeting, padding and the surrounding sub floors.

     The primary ingredient in cleaning powders is heavy perfumes designed to temporarily mask the cat and dog urine that is in the carpeting and padding. This is why those bad urine odors always return.

     Basically the physics behind cleaning powders renders them ineffective for pet urine removal.