The quality of your health depends on your surroundings, and that is why you should maintain a clean environment within your house.
Most people put a lot of effort into ensuring that various spaces within and outside their homes are in order, but they hardly consider the necessity of cleaning their mattresses. The amount of time you spend sleeping is enough reason to prioritize the importance of cleaning your mattress.
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Why Cleaning Your Mattress is Important
Allergens, bacteria, and dust are some of the things that your mattress traps in, which can affect your health in one way or another. Failure to clean your mattress also suggests that you will soon be dealing with a big problem including odors, dust mites, spots, bed bugs, and stains too. In that case, both general and deep cleaning of your mattress is critical if you want to protect yourself from the ailments or diseases that are as a result of an unkempt mattress.
The 5 Step Guide to Mattress Cleaning
1. Clean Your Sheets
The first thing you should do when you need to clean your mattress is stripping it of all sheets and bedding and putting them into your washing machine. Ensure you use the right detergent and hot water to remove tough stains on your bedding and sheets as well. Once the laundry is clean, dry it on high heat to get rid of any critters that are present.
2. Vacuum Your Mattress
Dead skin, dirt, dust, and other stuff collect in the seams and crevices in your mattress, and at this point, you need to focus on getting rid of the same. Use the upholstery attachment on your vacuum cleaner to remove the dirt on the seams and crevices in your mattress. If you need to get deep when vacuum cleaning your mattress switch to crevice attachment mode.
3. Treat Any Stains
Vacuuming may not get rid of all the stains on your mattress, and in that case, you should spot treat them. Some of the options you can consider for dealing with the stains that your vacuum cleaner will not remove from your mattress include a simple solution of a cup of warm water and a teaspoon of mild dish detergent.
If you intend to clean a body fluid stain from your mattress, an enzyme-based pet-odor remover or upholstery cleaner can be an ideal option.
4. Use Baking Soda to Deodorize Your Mattress
The next step is to deodorize your mattress by sprinkling baking soda on the surface. Leaving the baking soda on your mattress for a day is advisable because it will give you the best results. You will need to plan where you will spend the night at this point and do not forget to place your mattress near the window as you deodorize it for the sun to add it's sanitizing effect.
5. Vacuum up Baking Soda; Replace Sheets
Once the sanitization and the deodorizing process is complete, run your vacuum cleaner's upholstery attachment over your mattress, and that becomes the final step in this cleaning procedure. Before you jump into bed to enjoy your clean mattress, add a cover on it as well as a mattress pad between this cover and the bottom sheet for moisture absorption purposes.
A mattress cover and pad will also go a long way in keeping off fleas, mites, and other pests from your bed so you can enjoy your sleep each day.
A Healthy, Clean Mattress Keeps You Healthy and Clean
Insufficient sleep affects your mood and spoils your day in one way or another and part of the solutions, in this case, is maintaining a clean sleep surface. Eating on the bed will leave crumbs on it that can attract pests and sleeping without taking a shower can stain and leave your mattress with odor. In addition to improving your health and giving you a good night sleep keeping your mattress clean will make it last longer.
So, the next time you embark on a general cleaning exercise of your house do not forget to factor in your mattress as part of the things you should clean.
