What can a house keeper hope to accomplish with the use of ARGOSHEEN®, the altogether different approach to carpet care? Simply, it is this:
How does the ARGO method differ from others? By a simple, yet revolutionary method, ARGOSHEEN has put carpet cleaning where it should be...in the same category with dusting! The ARGOSHEEN method completely does away with outmoded shampoo machines, along with their damaging effect on carpeting. These machines, while revolving over the surface of a carpet, cause the soil to sink farther into the depths of its pile, and leave NOT ONLY THE SOIL, BUT THE CLEANING SOLUTION AS WELL, in the carpet!
The ARGO method is as simple as using a broom. Just saturate your mop with ARGOSHEEN and sweep! Surface trash and soil are removed, and the next layer of dirt is brought closer to the top to be removed with the next cleaning. The ARGOSHEEN method eliminates labor costs, because it is simply used in place of your regular daily cleaning method.
Is the ARGO method an improvement over other methods? We'll let you decide. But first let's make a few Comparisons. Has the water ever gone off while you were shampooing your hair, leaving you with a head full of lather and no way to rinse it out? Let's hope not...but that's exactly what happens when manufacturers' of this type of machine advocate removal of the solution by either wet or dry vacuuming. But, does it work? We say no...but, again, we'll let you decide...
How about the dry - vacuum method? It would work...IF the combined solution and soil became a fine powder when dry...but they don't. Experiments have proved this. Here's an experiment you can make yourself. With a vacuum that has been completely emptied, go over a carpet that has been shampooed and dried...check the vacuum bag again. It will still be empty. Then make the next experiment and see why..Mix a half part of margarine with a teaspoon of chili sauce or catsup and a reasonable amount of dirt, sand or dust on a plate. Add as much of any brand shampoo material as you wish, in any dilution, to this mixture. Rub and scrub all you please. Then set it aside for a few weeks. You will notice it never dries. It will even ferment and mold. It will be obvious that a dry vacuum could never remove the solution like this...BUT...an ARGOSHEEN dampened cloth wipes it out quickly!
" But you ask, " couldn't you use a wet vac to do the job.?" Well, here's another experiment for you. Select an area of the carpet that has received a lot of abuse (possibly the area in the dining room nearest the kitchen), and shampoo it. Using a wet vac, pick up as much foam as you can. Next day vacuum with a dry vac. It should certainly be clean after all this, wouldn't you think? Let's just see...Now pour a glass of water into one spot, working it into the carpet with a spoon. Notice the thick , black sludge. Now let's test your wet vacuum. But you will note that it fails to remove even one drop!
A prominent restaurateur customer of ours became so alarmed at seeing the number of towels required to mop up the filth during this experiment that he later turned the hose on his dining room carpets and had men come in in boots to scrub them with deck brushes. " The foam was a foot deep and a block long." he told us.
The best way to avoid this condition, which is the reason for most commercial carpet being discarded, is blotting it up - the only way that has ever been found to remove soil from tracked down carpets. ARGO & COMPANY,Inc. discovered 40 years ago that this could be done with mops almost as well as by hand, and no one has YET found a better way.
