What can someone, anyone tell me about Fels-Naptha as a spotter, or pre-spotter. What can it do, how is it used?
Actually, what I have in the back of my mind is recommending
it to customers (if it's any good) who ask me what kind of spotter to use for their own use. I might even sell it and have my name on it, if it would really work.
I know that some swear by it, so I'd like to hear from those
who use it. Tell me what it can do.
The price is certainly good.
Thanks

Terry Brevik is the guy who loves Fels Naphtha. Terry brought some Fels to Summerfest for the spotting contest. He was able to remove just about all the stains with his bar of soap. I wouldn't think it's a good idea to recommend it to your customers since it needs to thoroughly rinsed from the carpet. But it might be worth keeping in your bag of tricks for working with stains.

Or you could just stick with ENCAP-SPOT.
Tackles all kinds of spots and odors and doesn't require rinsing.




Rick Gelinas

Encap-Spot is the greatest - I use it all the time. I've thought of putting it in bottles and selling that to the customers, but the recent talk about possible suits if it's not used properly, or such, scared me off. So, I'm thinking outside the box. Of course, I could buy someone else's spotter and I may still do that, but I like to think of alternatives.
So, Rick, are you going to put Encap-Spot in giveaway bottles
so you can be responsible if the dog drinks it and dies? I know, the dog is not supposed to die, but people shouldn't be able to sue if they spill hot coffee in their laps, either.
Who's going to sue me over Fels Naptha soap? That's where I'm
heading in my thinking. The customer is just going to have to rinse it out. Besides, if they get enough spots that they don't get out completely, they'll call me to fix them (I hope).
Whaddaya say.
Besides, customers love a bargain.

I personally never gave away any spotter until about 6-8 months ago. We never wanted to leave the customer with something that would cause a residue if it was not rinsed. If you think the customer will rinse the soap out then ask yourself why they never rinse out resolve. We see that all the time. We bought some spray bottles and made labels for the Releasit DS. We mix it and pour it into bottles and give it away. This seems to work great and leaves no residue. We also get plenty of call backs from our bottles. It cost us 68 cents a bottle, so if we give away 100 and it cost us 68 dollars, this is ok. We will get plenty of call backs for every 100 bottles. We even have people calling now because their friend got a free spotter with a cleaning and they wanted the same deal. Whatever you decide let us know how it works for you.

Kevin Pearson

When you put it that way Kevin, you have to be absolutely right. Give away samples of Releasit, or give away nothing.
And Rick is right when he says that Fels Naptha may be something to keep in your bag of tricks.
Now, has anyone found F-N to be of real use, and if so, how does one use it? Just rub it on? Or, when has it worked when nothing else did? If there's nothing to it, I want to know that too?
Is there a F-N expert out there? Give us your knowledge and help.

From what I can see, Fels Naptha soap is a product similar to waterless hand cleaners. Both are somewhat dated in technology but have a certain following amongst traditionalists but the fact is that both are solvents emulsified in either a soap base or in a synthetic detergent base.

So, both are anywhere from 20-45% of a solvent which was, in the case of waterless hand cleaners, odorless mineral spirits. So you are cleaning your hands (with a waterless hand cleaner) with OMS and with some similar solvent, perhaps Stoddard solvent, in the case of Fels. Both a very good grease and oil solubilizers that can be rinsed off with water - hence the use as a pre-wash in laundry.

Available on eBay.

these days, a 50/50 mixture of Encap & water works the best for my spotter of choice.

thanx --- Derek.