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Bissell Oxy Gen 2 cleaning solution fights stains with oxygen with no mixing of powder and water required. This formula permanently removes stains like red wine, cola and fruit juice. Bissell�s Oxy Gen2 can be used as a pretreatment on your carpets or with color-safe laundry fabrics.
Product Features
- For use in the Bissell SpotBot as a pretreater for carpet and laundry or as a spot- and stain-remover
- Permanently removes stains like red wine, cola and fruit juice
- Boosts cleaning performance
- Deeply penetrates to thoroughly remove tough stains from carpets
- EPA Design for the Environment
Oxy Gen2 = Hydrogen Peroxide I just bought the Bissell SpotBot. As someone else mentioned, using the recommended amount of Oxy Gen2 would get expensive quickly. I measured the SpotBot tank volume markings, and it happens to be 14 oz water, 16 oz Oxy Gen2, and 1.5 oz of Pet Stain and Odor remover 2X concentrate. This one 31.5 oz of mixed solution will do two 6 minute set in stain cleanings. With Oxy Gen2 priced at about 6 buckeroos a 32 bottle, this could get expensive in a hurry.So time for some sleuthing to determine what chemical composition Oxy Gen2 is made up of. Wasn’t hard to find. I Googled for the MSDS sheet, and it turns out Oxy Gen2 is nothing more than plain old hydrogen peroxide with a concentration of less than 5%.Turns out you can buy 32 oz bottles of 3% hydrogen peroxide in the pharmacy areas of most retailers for less than one dollar!
Have you tried cleaning without this? I hate to burst everyone’s bubble. I’ve used this product with my Spotbot, because it came with it. I’ve used it in my Hoover Steamvac. I’ve used both the Spotbot and Steamvac without it. I have two kids and a dog that pees everywhere and I see no difference.Spotbot is an excellent spot cleaner and it works perfectly well without OxyGen. I get all sorts of spots out with it and no need for OxyGen. Perhaps that’s why everyone is getting such marvelous results. It’s the Spotbot with regular detergent, not the OxyGen.One big drawback to using OxyGen is the Spotbot manual instructs us to discard the unused solution if it contains OxyGen, meaning I can’t leave it in my Spotbot. I don’t have to do that with plain regular detergent. Since I must mix the OxyGen with water and detergent, I have to discard the detergent and OxyGen, which feels like a waste.Personally, I don’t think this product does any harm. It just doesn’t do much good. Spend the extra money elsewhere.
Can Get Expensive Fast A bottle was included in the Bissell SpotBot box along with sample bottles of the regular carpet cleaner. The sample bottle was used up quickly because so much must be added to fill the SpotBot cleaning reservoir up to the OXYGEN2 line. I didn’t notice any difference in results on the carpet whether or not I used this “next generation of oxygen boost”, so I didn’t buy any more of it until recently. Several spots on the carpet hadn’t come clean even after several cycles with the SpotBot. Even a spritz of the normally reliable Rug Doctor spot cleaner couldn’t remove those recalcitrant spots. For seven dollars, the 32-ounce container of OXYGEN2 was worth a gamble. I was curious to see how it would fare.The TestsThe SpotBot is a small machine that cleans carpet stains with a solution of water, cleaner, and, if desired, some OXYGEN2. It’s programmed to squirt on the solution, agitate the area with its circular brush, and then vacuum up the liquid. A beep alerts the user that the cycle is finished. Probably 98% of the time I get up spots easily with just water and half the recommended amount of soap. For the few failures Rug Doctor almost always come to the rescue. What I don’t like about it is the suggested ratio for the cleaning solution. The solution tank holds 32 ounces. When using OXYGEN2 the user is guided to use 16 ounces of OXYGEN2, and 8 ounces each of water and cleaner. The seven-dollar container of OXYGEN2 only holds 32 ounces, so those who follow directions will soon exhaust the supply. The cost factor and some skepticism are the reasons I hadn’t bought OXYGEN2 until now.I decided to try the OXYGEN2 on some residual stains that were mostly late discovered stealth pee damages. There were four of them and with the OXYGEN2 all but three came clean. I decided to return to the one stubborn yellow tinged spot later.I poured grape juice on two places on an old piece of carpet and cleaned with just water and cleaning solution. The grape juice came out totally. However, next to one grape juice spot was an old stain that had been there forever and hadn’t come clean whatsoever. Out of curiosity I squirted the spot with a little OXYGEN2 and cleaned it again with the SpotBot using OXYGEN2 in the solution. Amazingly the spot totally disappeared, and I was starting to become a believer in a product whose efficacy I had always doubted.On two basement rugs I poured some grape juice, rubbed it in and let it set overnight. One of the two stains was pretreated with OXYGEN2. Twenty hours later I set the SpotBot on both using the recommended ration of solution with OXYGEN2. Both stains came out easily using the regular 3-minute cycle. I opted not to use the SpotBot’s six-minute set in stain option. Again, next to one of the grape juice stains was a very old stain that remained even after the OXYGEN2 bath. I poured OXYGEN2 directly on this stain of indeterminate age and origin. The stain actually seemed to dissolve somewhat right before my eyes. I then gave the ancient stain another go with the SpotBot and OXYGEN2. It came up totally!There was more of the same ancient stain on another part of the rug so I attacked it with a non- OXYGEN2 solution and no pretreating to see what would happen. After the cleaning, the stain was a little less pronounced but definitely still there. A follow up with OXYGEN2 took it out.For the grand finale I made two grape juice stains, gave each a topping of mustard, and let them sit overnight. Three cycles with the SpotBot and pretreatment with OXYGEN2 didn’t budge the mustard. If anything it accentuated and brightened the yellow. I pretreated the other stain with Rug Doctor stain remover and had better success, though a tinge of yellow remains in the carpet.With the little bit of OXYGEN2 remaining I doused that previously cleaned stealth pee stain in Spud Central. After another run of the SpotBot over it, there was marked improvement, but not total cleansing. To be fair, OXYGEN2 is not for pet stains. Bissell markets another product for urine damage.FINALLY – I had mixed success with OXYGEN2. If I were to buy it again, I’d use it to pretreat stains or use it as a weapon of last resort. Using 16 ounces of OXYGEN2 per filling in the SpotBot or any other rug cleaner can get expensive.