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**In this video, you'll discover:**
• How to deep clean a mattress at home
• The best way to remove stains naturally
• How to eliminate odors and freshen your mattress
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• Common cleaning mistakes to avoid
• How often you should clean your mattress
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🛏️ **Is your mattress hiding dust, stains, odors, and allergens?** In this video, you'll learn **how to clean a mattress the easy way** using simple household ingredients and proven cleaning techniques. Whether you're dealing with sweat stains, spills, pet accidents, or lingering smells, these tips will help restore your mattress and keep it fresh for longer.
A clean mattress doesn't just look better—it can improve your sleep, reduce allergens, and help your bed last for years. We'll show you exactly what to do, what to avoid, and how to maintain a cleaner, healthier sleeping environment.
**In this video, you'll discover:**
• How to deep clean a mattress at home
• The best way to remove stains naturally
• How to eliminate odors and freshen your mattress
• Tips for removing dust mites and allergens
• Common cleaning mistakes to avoid
• How often you should clean your mattress
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00:00Here is a thing worth thinking on.
00:02You spend near a third of your whole life lying on your mattress.
00:07More hours than you spend almost anywhere else.
00:10And yet it is very likely the one thing in your house you never clean.
00:15You wash the sheets faithfully, yes, but the mattress underneath them,
00:19you strip the bed and put on fresh linens and never give it a thought.
00:24Year after year.
00:25And all that while, your own body, with only a sheet between,
00:30has been leaving behind on it the sweat of every night,
00:33a surprising amount of it, and the dust and the dead skin,
00:37and now and again, a spill or a stain.
00:40So today I am going to show you the plain old way to clean and freshen and care for your
00:46mattress.
00:47So the thing you sleep your life away upon is fresh and sweet and lasts you many good years.
00:54Let me show you.
00:55Here is the thing to understand first, before any of it.
00:59For it is the one rule that governs the whole business and the one folk get wrong.
01:05A mattress does not want water.
01:07It is a great, thick, soft thing that cannot be wrung out nor easily dried.
01:12So if you soak it, the wet sinks down deep inside where no air can reach.
01:18And there it breeds mold and a musty rot in the very heart of the thing you sleep on.
01:23And you will never get it out.
01:26So the whole art of cleaning a mattress is to do it dry wherever you can.
01:31And where you must use a little wet, to use as little as ever you can and dry it thoroughly
01:37after.
01:37Dry freshening for the most of it, the barest damp for a stain, and drying above all.
01:44Hold that rule and you cannot go wrong.
01:47Now let me take you through it.
01:49Quick word before we go further.
01:51My name is Esther Yoder, and the old household ways handed down to me, the kind I am sharing
01:57today, and the great many more besides, are far more than I could ever fit into one video.
02:03I have gathered the whole of them into a book, and you will find it at EliasYoder.com.
02:09If today's tips serve you, that is where the rest of what my mother and grandmother taught
02:15me lives, all in the one place.
02:17Now, to the mattress.
02:19My grandmother kept her bed sweet and her mattresses lasting a lifetime, and she had
02:25a saying about the bed above all, that you cannot rest clean on a foul bed, that the bed
02:30is where the body mends itself each night, and so it above all must be kept wholesome.
02:36And her great secret, the one she leaned on more than any other, was the sun, for she aired
02:42her bedding and her mattresses in the sun as regular as she swept the floor.
02:47So her ways begin and end at the open window and the sunny yard, and mine will too.
02:53But let me give you the whole of it, step by step.
02:56The first step, done regular, is to draw the dust and the dead skin out of the mattress,
03:02for a mattress gathers a surprising amount of it, all sifting down out of us as we sleep.
03:08If you have a vacuum, go over the whole mattress with it, top and sides, using the brush attachment.
03:15And here is a particular care worth heating.
03:18Use a clean attachment.
03:20For a vacuum brush that has been over the floors is full of the very grime you are trying
03:25to remove.
03:26And to run it over your bed is only to deposit that filth onto the very place you sleep.
03:32So clean the brush first, or keep one just for the bed.
03:36And for those without a vacuum, the old way does near as well.
03:41Take the mattress out of doors on a fine day, lay it over a line or a rail or two
03:46chairs,
03:47and beat it well with a beater or a broom, and the dust comes out in clouds,
03:52and the sun and air get at it besides, which is better yet.
03:55Do this every so often, at the change of the seasons is a good rule,
04:00and you keep the dust from ever building up.
04:03The second step is to freshen and deodorize it,
04:06to take out that faint, stale odor a mattress gathers from all the sweat and the sleeping.
04:12And this is the plainest thing, and pure baking soda does it.
04:15You sift a good, even layer of baking soda all over the top of the mattress,
04:20and you leave it to sit a good while, half an hour at the least,
04:24and longer is better, an hour or two,
04:27for the baking soda draws the odor up and out of the mattress and neutralizes it,
04:32does not merely cover it.
04:34And if you like a pleasant scent, you may stir a few drops of a sweet oil,
04:38lavender is lovely and restful for a bed,
04:41into the baking soda before you sift it,
04:44and it leaves the bed faintly sweet for some nights after.
04:47Then, when it has sat and done its work,
04:50you vacuum or brush all the baking soda off again.
04:54Now, be honest with yourself about what this does.
04:57It freshens and deodorizes beautifully,
05:00and that is a real and worthy thing.
05:03But, it is a dry freshening, and it does not lift a stain,
05:06so do not look for it to.
05:08For the stains, we go to the next step.
05:11The third step is the spot cleaning of stains.
05:14And here, you must know a thing about the kind of stain a mattress gets,
05:18for it governs how you treat it.
05:20The stains on a mattress are near always what are called protein stains,
05:25the stains of the body, the sweat and the blood and the other fluids of us.
05:29And protein stains have one great rule.
05:32Heat sets them.
05:34Hot water, warm water,
05:36will cook a protein stain right into the cloth and fix it there forever,
05:40whereas cold water lifts it.
05:42So, for any stain on a mattress,
05:45you use cold water only.
05:46Never warm, never hot.
05:49Remember that above all.
05:50Cold water for these stains.
05:52And the second rule of the stain.
05:54Blot. Do not rub.
05:56When you go at a stain,
05:58you press a cloth down onto it and lift.
06:00Press and lift.
06:02Blotting it up,
06:03rather than rubbing round and round.
06:05For rubbing only grinds the stain deeper into the fibers,
06:08and spreads it wider,
06:10while blotting lifts it up and out into your cloth.
06:13So, blot with a pressing motion, always.
06:16First, blot up all you can of a fresh, wet stain with a cool, damp cloth,
06:21then a dry one to take up the moisture.
06:24Then, for the stain itself,
06:25start with the gentlest thing,
06:27which is a paste of salt and baking soda and a little cold water mixed to equal parts.
06:33You rub that paste gently onto the stain and leave it a half hour to draw the stain up,
06:38and then brush it off and blot the spot with a cool, damp cloth to take up the last and
06:44let it dry.
06:44For many, a fresh stain, that is enough.
06:47And if it is not, if the stain is stubborn,
06:50then you go up to the stronger thing,
06:52which is a mix of hydrogen peroxide,
06:55that gentle bleach from the brown bottle,
06:57two parts of it to one part dish soap.
07:00You put just a tiny bit of that on the stain,
07:03the very least you can,
07:04and gently work it in with a soft brush,
07:07and leave it about five minutes,
07:09and then wipe it up with a cool, damp cloth.
07:11That peroxide mix lifts the stubborn stains
07:15and helps with the discoloration besides.
07:17But two cautions with it.
07:19Use it sparing,
07:20the least liquid you can,
07:22remembering the mattress hates water.
07:24And because peroxide can lighten a color,
07:27test it first on a hidden corner
07:29to be sure it does no harm to your particular cloth.
07:32And through all of this,
07:34mind the great rule again.
07:35Use as little wet as ever you can,
07:38and dry the mattress thoroughly after.
07:40For a mattress left damp inside grows mold.
07:43So after any spot cleaning,
07:45you dry that spot well.
07:47Blot up every bit of moisture you can.
07:50Set up a fan to blow across it
07:52and speed the drying.
07:53And best of all, if you can,
07:55get the mattress or the damp spot
07:57into the sun and the moving air,
07:59which dries it through and sweetens it besides.
08:02And do not, whatever you do,
08:04put the sheets back on and sleep on a mattress
08:06that is still the least bit damp.
08:08For that damp shut in under you
08:10and the bedding is just how you grow the mold.
08:13Bone dry before it is made up again, always.
08:16Now here is my grandmother's great step,
08:18the one the modern folk forget.
08:20And it is the best of all and costs nothing.
08:23Air your mattress in the sun.
08:25On a fine dry day,
08:27strip the bed and haul the mattress out of doors.
08:30Or at the very least,
08:31throw the windows wide
08:32and pull the mattress half off the bed
08:34into the sun and air.
08:36The sun does three good things at once.
08:39It dries out all the damp and the sweat.
08:41It kills the mustiness
08:43and freshens the whole thing through.
08:45And its light is a natural cleanser.
08:48An hour or two in the sun
08:50and moving air, both sides,
08:52and your mattress comes back sweeter
08:53and drier and more wholesome
08:55than any spray could make it.
08:57For nothing.
08:58The old folk aired their beds this way
09:00as a matter of course.
09:02And it is why their bedding stayed sweet.
09:04And it is the single best thing
09:06you can do for a mattress.
09:07Do it whenever the weather allows.
09:10And two more plain bits of care
09:12to make a mattress last and stay even.
09:15The first is to turn
09:16and flip your mattress regular.
09:18At the turn of each season
09:20is a good rule.
09:21End for end and over
09:23so that it wears even
09:24and does not sag into a hollow
09:26where the heaviest sleeper lies.
09:28A mattress always slept on the one way
09:31soon has a deep dip on that side.
09:34Turned regular,
09:35it wears flat and even
09:36and lasts you far longer.
09:38And it is a two-minute job
09:40that adds years to the thing.
09:42And the second, the wisest of all,
09:44is to keep the mattress
09:46from getting soiled in the first place.
09:48And here is the old plain way.
09:50Keep a washable cover over it,
09:52under the sheet.
09:53In my grandmother's day,
09:55every good bed had its tick covered
09:57with a stout washable pad or cover
09:59that took all the wear
10:01and the sweat and the spills
10:03and could be pulled off
10:04and washed or replaced
10:06while the mattress underneath
10:07stayed clean and new for many years.
10:10It is the same wisdom now.
10:12A washable mattress cover or pad
10:14put on under your sheet
10:16catches everything.
10:17The sweat and the spills
10:19and the stains.
10:20And when it is soiled,
10:21you simply take it off
10:22and wash it.
10:23Or, if a child is sick
10:25or a spill is bad,
10:26you wash or replace the cheap cover
10:29instead of ruining the dear mattress.
10:31It is far, far easier
10:33to wash a cover
10:34than to clean a mattress.
10:36And it saves the mattress entirely.
10:38So, of everything I have told you,
10:40this is the one
10:41I would have you take most to heart.
10:43Cover the mattress,
10:44and you scarcely ever
10:46have to clean it at all.
10:48Now I owe you two honest words,
10:50the kind I always give,
10:52about the things beyond a home cleaning.
10:54The first is the deep cleaning,
10:56the steam and the wetting
10:57and extracting some folk do.
10:59I will tell you plain,
11:01I would not,
11:02for it is the very thing
11:03that wets a mattress through,
11:05and a mattress hates water.
11:07If a mattress is so badly stained,
11:09or so full of the dust
11:11that gives some folk
11:12their sneezing and wheezing,
11:13that it truly wants a deep cleaning,
11:16that is a job for someone trained
11:18with the proper machines
11:19to pull the moisture back out,
11:21not a thing to hack at yourself
11:22and end with a moldy bed.
11:24And the second word,
11:26and this one is important,
11:28the bed bug.
11:29If ever you find bed bugs in a mattress,
11:31that is not a thing
11:32to clean away yourself
11:33by any of these ways.
11:35It wants a professional,
11:36and quickly,
11:37for they spread through a whole house
11:39and are dreadfully hard to be rid of.
11:41So if you find them,
11:43do not try to hack it alone.
11:45Call someone who knows the work at once,
11:47and have them treat the mattress
11:49and the room and all, promptly.
11:51Some troubles are beyond the home remedy,
11:54and knowing which is its own wisdom.
11:56Now think a moment
11:57about why we clean everything in the house,
12:00but the very bed we spend
12:01a third of our lives upon.
12:03It is worse than a plot,
12:05for no one had to arrange it.
12:07There is money in selling a new mattress
12:09every few years to folk
12:10who let the old one go foul and sagged,
12:13and none at all in teaching you
12:15that a bit of baking soda,
12:16a sunny afternoon,
12:18a regular turning,
12:19and a washable cover
12:20will keep a mattress sweet and sound
12:23for many long years.
12:24So the old plain wisdom
12:26of airing the bed
12:27and covering the tick
12:28just stopped being handed down,
12:30because no one profits
12:31by your mattress lasting.
12:33My grandmother's beds were sweet,
12:35and her mattresses lasted a lifetime.
12:38And somewhere,
12:39between her day and ours,
12:41we forgot the bed
12:42wanted keeping at all.
12:43The mending of it
12:45is baking soda,
12:46the sun,
12:47and a washable cover.
12:48You draw the dust out
12:50with a clean brush
12:51or a beating in the yard.
12:53You freshen it with baking soda,
12:55sifted on and brushed off.
12:57You spot clean the stains,
12:59cold,
13:00blotting,
13:00not rubbing,
13:01with salt and soda
13:02or a little peroxide,
13:04using the least wet you can
13:06and drying it through.
13:07You air it in the sun
13:09whenever you may.
13:10You turn it each season.
13:12And above all,
13:13you keep a washable cover on it
13:15so it scarcely soils at all.
13:18And the bed you spend
13:19your life upon
13:20is fresh and sweet
13:22and wholesome
13:23and lasts you many good years
13:25for the cost of almost nothing.
13:27That is how it comes home,
13:30one aired mattress,
13:31one washed cover at a time,
13:33the keeping of your own rest
13:35back in your own hands.
13:37So here is what I would ask of you.
13:40This week,
13:41strip your bed
13:42and give your mattress
13:43the baking soda
13:44and,
13:45if the day is fine,
13:46an hour in the sun
13:48and put a washable cover on it
13:50if you have none
13:51and then come back
13:52and tell me in the comments
13:54how much sweeter
13:55your bed felt that night
13:56for I do love to hear
13:58of a good night's rest
13:59made better.
14:00And tell me too
14:02while you are there
14:03your county
14:04and the age of your house
14:05for the damp climates
14:07make the airing matter
14:08all the more
14:09and the old houses
14:10have the sunny yards
14:12and the lines
14:13for airing bedding
14:14and I learn from every one of you
14:16how it goes where you live.
14:18And if your own mother
14:19or grandmother
14:20had a way of keeping a bed sweet
14:22that I have not named here
14:24tell me that most of all
14:26for that is how this goes
14:28we share what we were given.
14:30I read every comment
14:32and I learn from you
14:34the way the old women learned
14:36from one another
14:36across the fence line
14:38one household
14:39and one season at a time.
14:42Next time
14:43I will show you
14:44how to keep the whole
14:45of your bedding
14:46sweet and fresh
14:47the pillows
14:48and the quilts
14:49and the blankets
14:50the washing
14:51and the airing
14:52and the sunning
14:53that keep a family's beds
14:54wholesome and lasting
14:56so that the whole bed
14:57and not just the mattress
14:59is kept the good old way.
15:01There is a right
15:02and an old way
15:04to keep a household's rest
15:05that runs on air and sun
15:08and a little care
15:09rather than on buying a new.
15:11But this week
15:13you start with the mattress.
15:14You draw the dust out
15:16you freshen it
15:17with baking soda
15:18you spot clean
15:19any stain
15:20cold and gentle
15:22and dry it through.
15:23You air it in the sun
15:25you turn it
15:26and you cover it
15:27with a washable cover
15:28so it stays sweet.
15:30And you will understand
15:31as my grandmother did
15:33at her own beds
15:34that you cannot rest clean
15:36on a foul bed
15:37that a mattress hates water
15:39and loves the sun
15:40and that the thing
15:42you spend a third
15:43of your life upon
15:44deserves the small keeping
15:46that makes it sweet
15:47and sound for years.
15:49The household kept
15:51the plain old way
15:52is the one that remembers
15:53how the old women
15:55kept every bed
15:56wholesome and lasting
15:57with baking soda
15:59a sunny afternoon
16:00and a cover
16:01that could be washed
16:02and that is a thing
16:04we are only just starting
16:05to remember.
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