Organic Dry Cleaning
Organic Dry Cleaning
Cleaning a cotton/silk sweater?
I have 2 cotton/silk blend sweaters. The instructions say to dry clean or wash on gentle & lay flat to dry. I washed the first at home (gentle cycle, cold water, w/ Woolite) and laid it flat – when it dried it came out like cardboard! I took the 2nd one (and the one that I washed at home) to the dry cleaner (was an organic dry cleaner) and they are now both stiff and itchy. My previously soft and comfortable sweaters are now both itchy and uncomfortable. I’ve taken one of them to a regular dry cleaner in the past and it was fine – thought I’d try the environmentally friendly cleaners and the sweater is awful.
Can they be salvaged at this point? Was the organic cleaner just a bad dry cleaner and that’s why my sweater was ruined, or do they use a different process that ruined it? How can I wash them at home and not ruin them?
These weren’t overly expensive sweaters, maybe $40-$50, but I loved them and now they make my skin itch and they look weird!
You should NEVER have put it in a washing machine! (stiff & itchy). When it says “gentle”…it means “HAND WASH.”.
“Woolite” is ok…but THINK of anything made from insects (Silkworm)…as your HAIR… & use SHAMPOO! Especially SILK. (it’s made from the Silkworm).
Take your ‘ruined’ sweater, ‘shampoo’ them BY HAND….IN THE SINK, and then ‘condition’ it too (just like you would your hair)! Lay it flat on a towel to dry…and I think you’ll ‘SALVAGE’ the sweater that’s stiff and itchy will be softer than before. You may have ruined it in the washer…(you’ll know better next time—it’s just a sweater! as you said)..
but>>>
I doubt that it is “RUINED”. It probably WAS the organic cleaner and your mishandling than made them stiff & itchy. Dry-cleaners can differ so much with their product, the solution (used too many times), & their method of drying. If the solution was dirty that could cause stiffness—and the bacteria left behind could make them itchy and not fresh.
ALWAYS ASK YOUR DRY-CLEANER HOW OFTEN THEY CHANGE THEIR CLEANING SOLUTION !!! If they don’t say “daily”….take your garment and LEAVE. Don’t bother to explain why you’re leaving…if they can’t figure it out—it’s their bad! …just leave!
TRY THE SHAMPOO.
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