James Stephens has owned and operated Heavenly Touch in San Jose since 1996. Heavenly Touch cleans carpets and upholstery at your home or office. They also polish and restore marble, granite, limestone and travertine as well as tile and grout cleaning.

Heavenly Touch provides very useful carpet cleaning tips on their website, www.heavenlytouchcarpets.com. You can consult it when somebody (certainly, it wasn't you, was it?) spills something on your prized carpet or cool couch. There's a list running the gamut from mustard, wine, ice cream, chocolate pudding, wine… right down to heavy oil and grease.

Heavenly Touch offers these tips so that you can do some of your own carpet and upholstery cleaning, but the site also points out that lipstick, rouge, nail polish, rust, dried mustard, furniture stains, and candle wax require special treatment. If you try to remove them, you'll make matters worse—and that's where Heavenly Touch comes in. They use a soapless cleaning method that leaves no chemical residue. Carpets dry in hours, not days.