Did a spot clean for a retailer a couple of days ago. She had bought a very very expensive carpet for her massive cottage. She got a few marks (7 or 8 in all) on it by whatever - and I had to remove them. The marks had gone grey (dirt) and I instincticely asked her if she had tried to remove them herself, and if a cleaning agent had been used (you know when they have right

). She admitted to using a cleaner, then I said to her I do hope it wasnt
Vanish as it may have taken colour out of the areas she had cleaned - although not obvious at the moment.
She produced a big spary bottle of Vanish :

I cleaned the marks - no more grey, but guess what - yep, colour loss. Carpet ruined. I asked her what was the best place for the Vanish bottle - she said 'the bin'? I said yep! Got some other marks off straight away on the stairs - with the same very expensive carpet. Got a lovely job out of it to go back in Jan and clean all her other carpets

Long live Vanish, we'll have nothing to scare them with otherwise!