AmazonCommercial Multi-Purpose Enzyme Cleaner, 1-Gallon, 1-Pack

As a parent with multiple pets, this enzyme cleaner is a godsend. Enzyme cleaners in general are amazing and have so many uses, but I especially like this one as it not only actually works, but it’s one of the most cost effective enzyme cleaners I’ve come across. You may the able to find some cheaper, but I’ve found they’re not nearly as effective and you end up having to use much more and spending more money anyway. The price for the Amazon Commercial brand enzyme cleaner is very reasonable while also holds up against other more expensive, and maybe more well known brands. “Holds up” may actually be putting it lightly because I find it performs better than most of the other brands I’ve tried. And as someone who owns and fosters cats, I’ve tried a LOT.I use enzyme cleaners for everything from cat urine odors, deodorizing pet bedding, cleaning stinky shoes, getting stink out of gym clothes, removing baby poop stains, food stains from things like berries, even basic home deodorizing like you’d use febreze.I have some pointers and tips for using an enzyme cleaner that I’ve learned over the years. The most important things to remember are; do NOT use any other cleaner before using the enzyme cleaner, and SATURATE. Other products may render the enzymes useless, and enzyme cleaners only work while wet.Now, if you’ve accidentally used other products before the enzyme cleaner, don’t give up hope. Try to soak/clean up the previous product and still give the enzyme cleaner a shot. There’s a decent chance it will still work.And to my second point: saturate, saturate, saturate! Multiple times if needed! Once it has dried, it has stopped working. You may need to saturate multiple for very heavy odors and stains.These are my basic steps for each use:For heavy messes like cat urine: if it’s on something that cannot be washed in a washer or in a bathtub/hose (like carpet, furniture, etc), soak/blot up as much urine as possible. You’re going to want to get as much urine/mess out of the fabric as you physically can. The less urine the enzymes to have to work on, the better. Then you’ll want to SATURATE with enzyme cleaner. You want it to stay wet with enzyme cleaner as long as possible so it can work as long as possible. Like really pour it on. Let it sit for a couple hours at minimum, preferably overnight. Sometimes I add more if it ends up drying too quickly. Then soak/blot again, and smell. Do you still smell urine? If so, saturate, let sit, and blot up again. Repeat these steps until you’re satisfied with the smell. Then at the end, you’ll want to rinse however you are able to. An upholstery cleaner, shampooer, or even pouring some water on and then sucking it up with a shop vac will do. The point is to get as much water rinsed through as you can to remove leftover mess and the enzyme cleaner. You’ll likely not be able to remove all the enzyme cleaner, and that’s fine, but the more the better.For things that can be washed in the washer/bathtub, like laundry, or couch cushions: Rinse out as much as you can with water, then saturate with enzyme cleaner. For things like baby poop stains or smelly gym clothes, I let sit to soak in a bucket with enzyme cleaner overnight. Usually by morning stains/smells are gone. If not I let sit a bit longer. Then I just throw in the washer and dryer as normal. But you’ll want to avoid drying before the stain is removed, or it may be virtually impossible after that. For couch cushions, or other large items, I let soak in the tub and then rinse in the morning. I do another smell test and decide if I need to saturate and soak again. Once I’m satisfied with the smell, I allow to dry in the sun.Since I have many pets, about once a week I take a spray bottle filled with enzyme cleaner and lightly spray fabrics around my house. The couch, rugs, curtains, etc. I will also mop my floors with it here and there, and use it to clean litter boxes before sanitizing.This stuff is so versatile and has become a staple cleaning product in our home, it’s honestly amazing I ever went without it and I can’t imagine going through more babies and pets not having it again!

Long review ahead!I moved into my grandmother’s old house. Her male cats used to mark certain spots in the house on the carpet. She would shampoo the carpets and you couldn’t smell any kind of urine smell, until it got warm outside or if it is one of those wet, muggy days. Of course, I moved in with two dogs and they started peeing in the same spots. It has 100% soaked into the rug, padding and most likely the subfloor. I know I need to pull the carpet, I just can’t quite afford it yet, so I have tried EVERYTHING. Hydrogen peroxide, Bissel Pet Cleaner, vinegar, baking soda, dawn dish soap, Oxy Out, Clorox Pet Urine Remover, Nature’s Miracle, HEP…. Nothing fully got the smell out on those hot days.I got this as a “last resort before I bite it and just replace all the floors”. I had low hopes. In the spots that were one or two time accidents that I previously ran the Bissel Pet Pro carpet cleaner over, you could still smell a little bit of urine. I put this in a spray bottle, soaked the area, let it sit and then sucked it up with the shampooer. It did decrease the smell, but not all of it on the first time around. I let it dry, then poured it directly on the stain, saturating the area, and then used a dollar tree scrub brush and really got at it. I let it sit for 24 hours and was mortified, there was huge brown “stains” everywhere I scrubbed. To my surprise, the “stains” came right up with the shampooer. In the not urine saturated spots, you can no longer smell urine AT ALL.I also used this directly in the shampooer. There was a red vomit stain from one of the dogs I have tried to get out for MONTHS. Using this solution, it came right up with two swipes of the shampooer!In the more saturated spots, this cleaner did not fully get the urine smell out. I didn’t expect it to, as it is most likely into the subfloor. But I was amazed at how much gunk this stuff pulled up out of the carpet, and it really did decrease the smell on the warm / wet days. I included a picture of one of the highly urine saturated areas, you can see the normal color of the carpet, where I scrubbed and all of the GUNK that came out of the carpet after 24 hours of having it sit.The smell is a very light, not overwhelming, clean minty smell. After about 24 hours, you can’t smell it anymore.Ironically, as everyone does, I poured the “dirty shampooer water” down the toilet and flushed it. I came back to the bathroom about an hour later, and all of the tough hard water stains in the toilet were gone! I didn’t even have to scrub it! I have only been able to get these stains out with Barkeeper’s Friend Toilet Bowl Cleaner. I was AMAZED!I will 100% be buying more of this to keep around for those little accidents, mud stains from the dogs and even to clean the toilet and shower with! My only recommendation: if you have some really stinky areas, get more than one gallon!