we are putting our house up for sale soon and trying to eliminate any stains in our carpet. there are not many but there are two that will not come up. the first one was when we set our salt lamp on the carpet when we were cleaning the desk and left it there and i guess it leaked or something because it left a wax-ish ring on our beige carpet. it wont come up either. if you dont know what a salt lamp is, it looks like this:

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and the other stain is from pencil dust after emptying the pencil sharpener and accidently dropping it….ya.

so how can i get these two stains out of my carpet? we have tried everything from carpet cleaner spray to those carpet rug doctors you rent from lowes or home depot. will i have to replace the carpet?
thanks so much!
home remedies are great..
God bless-livie