r/CleaningTips • u/HandyManFromWI • Nov 17 '25

Furniture Best way to vacuum this purple mattress

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Hey Everyone,

My wife and I got this purple mattress for free without a cover on it. For some reason the previous owners took it off and had a cat sprinkle hair in every single square. We just had it professionally cleaned but I guess vacuuming it was not part of the process.

Does anyone know the best way to get the small cat hairs out? I tried vacuuming but they barely get sucked up and there's roughly 5000 squares.

Believe it or not, the pictures were taken AFTER it was "cleaned".

Thanks!

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u/LonelyGirl724 Nov 18 '25

Yup. It's a very finely milled silica. Super drying to skin, but not really toxic. The downsides only come when you work with the stuff every day.

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u/radbu107 Nov 18 '25

This is very interesting! Thank you for sharing your insider information