Look away now if you have a Vax or Bissell carpet washer AND have spent over a tenner for the ridiculous mark up prices for carpet shampoo that you use for washing carpets. 1001 carpet cleaner for carpets and upholstery is a tour de force, and has been on the market for more than 30 years! That's more years than Bissell have been in the UK with their upright carpet washers. It was in 2003 that I discovered 1001 carpet shampoo, having continually paid out £10 to £15 for Vax's own AAA allergen free shampoo for use in my parents' horrid and heavy 15 year old Vax canister 3 in 1 vacuum cleaner. It was horrid because the whole principle of setting the ...  Read the complete review

Having clean carpets around the home is important to me because it makes for a nice smelling home if the carpets are cleaned regular. We tend to clean ours around every 9 months or so. My family and friends almost always take their shoes off when they enter and so my carpets stay quite clean for a lot longer than they would if shoes were left on their feet. So 9 months is fine for cleaning my carpets. Also because I have a little granddaughter that has just began to crawl and I like to know my carpets are as clean as possible so that she can crawl around and I then know my carpets are clean and also smell nicer. I spotted this cleaner for just a £1 from ...  Read the complete review

Carpets are subjected to so much hardship in our house -dirty work, animals, and recently, serious work in the gardens! I always use this carpet shampoo for shampooing my own carpets (very regularly!) and am always pleased with the results. 1001 claim they are the "magic number for carpets", and with their vast range of products I think they may be on to something. I am a fan of their carpet fresh powder too (reviewed earlier), and generally feel confident when I try one of their products. This shampoo comes in a typical 1001 bright yellow plastic bottle, holding 500ml of milky white shampoo, with a blue screw cap (used to measure). It is quite thin ...  Read the complete review

A few months ago hubby bought me a new Bissell carpet cleaner from Costco which cost over £200 & came with one (yes one!) bottle of shampoo. Unfortunately Costco don't sell the bottles, I find Bissell's website expensive, couldn't find any at Tesco or John Lewis so eventually had a look on ebay. Whilst browsing carpet shampoos I saw that someone was selling 1001 3-in-1 for £3.95 plus p&p which is considerably less than the £10 Bissell ask. I decided to have a look around our local cut price shops & found bottles of 500ml for just a quid from Poundworld. The plastic bottle is as shown in the photo - a gawdy yellow - but with a picture of a carpet ...  Read the complete review

Why I bought this product: It was recommended to me by a friend that I try this carpet shampoo as it was time to give them a clean as over time they've got a little grubby. What is the product? 1001 is a carpet shampoo for 3 in 1 machines; it cleans carpets and freshens carpets professionally. It is specially designed for use in specialist machines such as Vax, Rug doctor ct. It generally works its way deep down into carpet fibres to remove the stains in your carpet. Directions: Vacuum the carpet thoroughly before cleaning. Follow the machines manufactures' instructions then pour 36ml (4 capfuls) of the product mixed into 1 ...  Read the complete review