If you don’t have a mattress encasement, vacuum your mattress once a month, using a full-size vacuum cleaner with powerful suction.
Run the upholstery attachment across the surfaces to pick up debris. Use the angled, hose-like crevice cleaner on the nooks and crannies, to suck out trapped dust in the tufting, quilting, and edge piping.
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Use dry paper towels to clean as much of the excess grossness as possible.
Add equal parts white vinegar and warm water to a spray bottle. Aqsa Tasleem, a textile expert and product manager for Corsicana Mattress Company, suggests also including a squirt of dishwashing liquid, to cut through the grimy bits and any oils.
Be thorough, but go sparingly. “You do not want the solution to soak deep into the foam and make it difficult to dry,” Tasleem says.
Use a washcloth or microfiber sheet, and work the solution through without pressing into the mattress. Continue until any coloring is gone, says William Carroll Jr., adjunct professor of chemistry at Indiana University and owner of Carroll Applied Science. Finish with a spritz of plain water to remove residual cleanser. Dab with a clean cloth or paper towel to dry. (For tough stains like cat pee, consider an enzyme cleaner; enzymes break down molecules that can cause stains, says Carroll. Follow instructions on the label.)
After dabbing dry your vinegar solution, sprinkle enough baking soda to absorb the wetness, and leave it on for a few hours. While the white vinegar (an acid) reacts with the basic components in urine to help neutralize the smell, the baking soda (a base) takes care of the smelly acids (including stomach acid in vomit).
Ideally, Carroll explains, wait until all of the baking soda is completely dry, and then vacuum it up. If you feel that you need to disinfect the mattress (for instance, if someone with a stomach bug got sick on it), spritz the mattress with store-bought disinfectant or 70% pure rubbing alcohol.
Dry the mattress completely before you sleep on it. Open the windows, or use a hair dryer to speed up the process, if necessary. “Whatever you do, avoid turning the mattress over on the frame,” says Stuart Carlitz, president and CEO of Eclipse International. That old trick will leave the mattress damp and invite mildew.
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