Today, a jacket-down jacket is almost every one of us. It is warm and not afraid of rainfall, it is comfortable and comfortable. But in the process of socks, any thing gets polluted. Before you start cleaning the down jacket, carefully read all the labels that are on the product. The icons indicate whether the product can be dry-cleaned, washed in a machine or manually, dried, ironed, etc. If you want the down jacket to serve you for a long time, be sure to follow these prompts on the labels.
Ways of cleaning the down jacket
Many owners of warm jackets are interested in how you can clean the down jacket or its parts: sleeves, greasy collar, not erasing. You can make a down jacket clean in several ways.
- The easiest way, especially not zamorachivayas, put the down jacket in dry cleaning, if it is allowed for this product. However, in a thing that undergoes aggressive chemical treatment, the service life is noticeably shortened, and the dry cleaning service itself is quite expensive.
- You can push the down jacket into the washing machine and take out a clean product. But it is permissible to do this only if the jacket has a special permissive label for washing it in the machine.
- If the down jacket can not be washed at all, then this does not mean that it remains to take it to the cottage and make it a work clothes! You can try to clean the jacket manually. To do this, take a bowl of warm water, dissolve in it a special liquid product for washing down products . Brush dipped in this solution, clean the entire down jacket or especially dirty places, and then use a clean soft sponge or cloth to wipe these places to remove the foam from them. Hang the down jacket to dry on the hanger.
- The sleeves and collar are the fastest dirty in any jacket. Therefore, first of all, regardless of the way you choose to clean the down jacket, you need to clear these problem areas. To do this, moisten the brush in the solution of any detergent or powder and rub the dirty places of the down jacket, without soaking the rest of the jacket. Remove the remainder of the powder with a damp cloth or sponge.
- Since cleaning the down jacket from greasy stains without washing is a difficult task, you can suggest the following method. Prepare a solution consisting of half a liter of water, one tablespoon of vinegar and the same amount of salt. Wadded disc, soaked in this solution, wipe the stain well. After this, wipe this place with a disc moistened in warm clean water.
There is another way, how to clean the down jacket without washing and get rid of the greasy stains on it. Use a dishwashing liquid. It contains substances that are good for breaking down fat. Two teaspoons of the product should be diluted in a small amount of lukewarm water, stir the resulting solution well. Wet the sponge in it, wipe the dirty areas on the jacket. Leave the foam on the surface of the stain and after a few minutes, wash it with a damp microfiber cloth. If the fat stain does not go away immediately, the entire procedure can be repeated again.
The stain from engine oil can be cleaned with refined gasoline. However, it must first be checked whether the fabric of the jacket is discolored by applying a little gasoline from the underside of the product. If the test is normal, moisten the cloth with water, drip a few drops of gasoline onto it, and wipe the stain in a circular motion from the edges to the center. After this, wipe this place with a damp cloth and with the same movements, and ventilate the jacket well.
On many down jackets, there is fur as a decoration on the collar, hood or sleeves. If this fur is natural, then you can not erase such a jacket at all: from this finish after washing, especially in the car, nothing remains. Fur parts can be cleaned by combing them with a comb or brush.