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However, as careful as you might be, there’s no avoiding the stains, spillages and grime that build up with everyday use (or the bad smells and discolouration which come with it).

But don’t fill your shopping trolley with expensive fabric cleaning products just yet. To give your upholstery a new lease of life, all it takes is a few natural ingredients – many of which we can bet are already in your kitchen cupboard.

Take a look at the best natural ways to clean a fabric sofa, below.

Before you get started with any of the methods below, it is worth checking the individual cleaning codes of your sofa fabric (usually found on the underside of your sofa cushions).

To make sure you’re giving your sofa a sufficient deep clean, the first thing you should do is remove any crumbs or dirt from both the surface and in-between the sofa cushions (you may want to wear gloves).

To do this, you’ll need a clean, dry cloth. With the cloth in hand, brush the upholstery, ensuring you reach into all the nooks and crannies. For stubborn areas, such as dried-on spots, you may need to use a stiff brush.

TOP TIP: If your fabric sofa is lightly coloured, you’ll need to use a white cloth. Otherwise, the dye from the cloth could soak into the fabric on your sofa and cause discolouration.

By their nature, sofa fibres have a tendency to cling to smells from pets, spillages and – ahem – natural gases. Over time, this can develop into an unpleasant, lingering scent, which isn’t ideal when entertaining guests.

While you could mask the smell with an upholstery deodoriser, this only offers a temporary solution, and you could be back where you started just hours later. Instead, you should try an easy-to-make natural fabric cleaner to remove bad smells for good.

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For all their cosiness, fabric sofas aren’t the best at repelling spillages or deep stains. Anyone who has knocked a glass of red wine onto their favourite sofa knows this reality all too well. Thankfully, there are ways to clear up stubborn stains without the need for tough chemical products.

Take a look at our fantastic fabric sofa cleaning solution, below.

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TOP TIP: Baking soda and white vinegar is an ace cleaning combination for any tough stain. This is because the baking soda reacts with the vinegar to create an acidic formula which gently cuts through grease and grime.

TOP TIP: This method is also superb as a natural carpet cleaner. Mix together and apply to carpet stains for a fresh new look.

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