How to wash black jeans

Black jeans are always in fash­ion, and they are also ver­sa­tile. You can wear them to work, to impor­tant meet­ings, and to par­ties with friends. Anoth­er advan­tage of this wardrobe item is that dirt is prac­ti­cal­ly invis­i­ble on black, so you can wear it longer than light and white things. How­ev­er, of course, you need to wash black jeans, and here a prob­lem aris­es — from con­tact with water and deter­gents, the fab­ric can begin to fade, shed, look some­how pale, whitish and com­plete­ly unpre­sentable. There­fore, we wash as lit­tle as pos­si­ble, observ­ing the sim­ple rules for car­ing for black-dyed den­im.

How often should you wash black jeans?

The less den­im is in con­tact with water and wash­ing pow­der, the longer it retains its col­or, and things — their orig­i­nal shape. It is nec­es­sary to wash black jeans as they get dirty, the fre­quen­cy of clean­ing pro­ce­dures depends on how often you put on a thing and in what con­di­tions it is used. If you wear every day, then once a week you can fresh­en up a wardrobe item by doing a quick wash in the wash­ing machine or by hand. If jeans are worn sev­er­al times a week or two, and not for gath­er­ings in nature, but for going to work, to a restau­rant, wash­ing can be done twice as often. If this is done more often, the thing will “age” ahead of time and become unat­trac­tive, stretch or, on the con­trary, sit down, fade. How­ev­er, you can refresh the shade of black jeans with­out any prob­lems, read the arti­cle to the end, we will tell you how to do it, how to return a deep and bright black col­or to black den­im trousers.

How to hand wash black jeans

Hand wash­ing black jeans is the best option because you can con­trol the process every step of the way. The only dif­fi­cul­ty you may encounter is the heavy weight of the item of cloth­ing when wet. Espe­cial­ly if the fab­ric is of high qual­i­ty, dense. Such prod­ucts not only weigh a lot, they are poor­ly rinsed out, it is dif­fi­cult to wring them out with high qual­i­ty. But if these fea­tures of hand wash­ing are not tak­en into account or ignored, then the process turns out to be quite sim­ple:

1. 
   We pre­pare a con­tain­er and water for wash­ing. The basin should be deep enough to hold the item, and the water should be cool enough so as not to adverse­ly affect the pig­ments, but at the same time warm enough to effec­tive­ly remove dirt and not cause dis­com­fort to the skin of the eraser’s hands. The opti­mal water tem­per­a­ture is from 30 to 40 degrees, that is, approx­i­mate­ly like your body tem­per­a­ture.

2. 
   Add deter­gent to water. It is bet­ter that it is not a pow­der, but a gel, with a com­po­si­tion that is envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly and safe for nature and human health. Since you will be work­ing with your hands, the deter­gent should be free of poten­tial aller­gens and irri­tants. To pre­serve the col­or of jeans, you can use a spe­cial deter­gent for wash­ing black clothes, fol­low­ing the dosage indi­cat­ed on the label, based on the amount of water used.

3. 
   Shake the added gel well in water so that foam appears.. Keep in mind that if house­hold chem­i­cals are used for wash­ing in auto­mat­ic machines, there may be very lit­tle foam, in which case the amount of deter­gent does not need to be increased, since there is no point in this, there is no need to increase the cost of wash­ing.

4. 
   Jeans ready for wash­ing — clean pock­ets, brush off strong dirt, if any, fas­ten but­tons, snakes, make sure that dec­o­ra­tive ele­ments are secure­ly fixed (if some­thing can come off, you need to either sew it on stronger or tear it off for wash­ing). And most impor­tant­ly — turn the prod­uct inside out. This will not only pro­tect the black pig­ments from heavy washout, but will also reduce the risk of deter­gent streaks on the front. After wash­ing, the host­ess does not have to turn her wet jeans inside out to dry gen­tly and pre­vent the fab­ric from fad­ing in the sun.

5. 
   Jeans sub­merged in waterleave to soak for 30–60 min­utes, espe­cial­ly if they are heav­i­ly soiled. Addi­tion­al­ly, you can rub spots with stains with a soft sponge, like the one you wash dish­es with.

6. After the rec­om­mend­ed time has passed, jeans are wrin­kled with soft move­ments, like dough, and the fab­ric is eas­i­ly rubbed in places of heavy pol­lu­tion. After that, they are tak­en out of the water and squeezed out with crum­pling move­ments, with­out twist­ing. The water is drained, the thing is immersed in a basin, clean cool water is poured and rinsed. Rinse should be done in sev­er­al changes of water until it becomes clear.

7. After rins­ing, the water must be drained with­out remov­ing the jeans from the basin, tilt­ing it to one side and press­ing the thing against the wall to squeeze out excess liq­uid. When the max­i­mum water has drained, the trousers are tak­en out, laid out on a ter­ry tow­el (prefer­ably dark, so that no paint stains can be seen if the jeans shed a lit­tle). When mois­ture is absorbed into the tow­el, the washed prod­uct can be shak­en and hung to dry on a rope or dry­er bar. Just keep in mind that at the points of con­tact between the fab­ric and the rope, dis­tinct “creas­es” may appear on the jeans, which are not so easy to get rid of.

As you can see, noth­ing com­pli­cat­ed, wash­ing black jeans is no fun­da­men­tal­ly dif­fer­ent from hand wash­ing oth­er things. Unless it is desir­able to make the water cool­er, and also not to active­ly rub the prod­uct so that the paint does not start to come out of the fibers.

Washing in the washing machine

Wash­ing black jeans in the wash­ing machine is eas­i­er than wash­ing them by hand. Since every­thing is done with­out your par­tic­i­pa­tion and effort, it remains only to pre­pare the item for wash­ing, choose a deter­gent and a suit­able mode:

1. The prod­uct is fas­tened with all but­tons and zip­pers, turned inside out, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly checked the pock­ets, placed in a spe­cial bag or mesh for wash­ing in order to reduce the fric­tion force of the thing on the walls of the drum, and also pre­vent stretch­ing of the fab­ric.

2. Deter­gent can be tak­en the same as for hand wash­ing — spe­cial for black clothes (Las­ka 3D, Sar­ma Active, Bur­ti Noir), ordi­nary wash­ing pow­der in the form of a gel or laun­dry soap, grat­ed, mixed with soda ash or ordi­nary bak­ing soda and water . Loose pow­der is best not to use. First­ly, it has a more aggres­sive com­po­si­tion than the gel. Sec­ond­ly, it does not dis­solve well in cool water, and black clothes are best washed at low tem­per­a­tures. Third­ly, it is poor­ly rinsed out of dense den­im fibers, due to which the mate­r­i­al may begin to wear out quick­ly, and whitish stains may appear on black fab­ric. Also, to improve the qual­i­ty of wash­ing and reduce the con­sump­tion of deter­gent, you can use spe­cial balls for wash­ing.

3. We select the del­i­cate, gen­tle or any oth­er sim­i­lar mode — “Quick wash”, “Hand wash”. Or we sim­ply set the tem­per­a­ture on the wash­ing machine dis­play to 30 degrees, the time is min­i­mal (30–40 min­utes), addi­tion­al rins­ing is option­al, but rec­om­mend­ed to elim­i­nate the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a whitish coat­ing, spin­ning is 400 rev­o­lu­tions per minute or no spin.

After that, you can load the batch for wash­ing, since black jeans are allowed to be washed with oth­er black items. White and col­ored den­im should not be placed in the drum, as even the most expen­sive and high-qual­i­ty den­im trousers can sud­den­ly begin to shed, and oth­er things will take on an “earthy” hue.

Proper drying and ironing

After wash­ing, we hang the trousers over a bath­tub or basin or dry them slight­ly on a ter­ry tow­el, and then on a rope or a spe­cial dry­er. What not to do when dry­ing black jeans:

1. Hang them on a rope, bend­ing in half — creas­es are formed. It is bet­ter to hang the prod­uct by the legs, grab­bing them with clothes­pins at the bot­tom edge.

2. Hang them out to dry in direct sun­light. Even if the prod­uct is turned inside out, it should still be dried only in the shade or in a ven­ti­lat­ed, dry area.

3. Dry black jeans on a radi­a­tor, radi­a­tor or oth­er heat­ing device, includ­ing in close prox­im­i­ty to a heat source.

You can iron black jeans if there is no such pro­hi­bi­tion on the label of the prod­uct. If you intend to iron the trousers, then after dry­ing, do not turn them inside out, iron them from the inside and through a thin fab­ric. If your jeans are too stiff after wash­ing and dry­ing, this may indi­cate that you have very hard water. At the next wash, add bak­ing soda or soda ash to the wash­ing pow­der or use a spe­cial water soft­en­er, for exam­ple, Cal­gon. The stiff­ness of the den­im after wash­ing may also indi­cate that the rinse was not of suf­fi­cient qual­i­ty. Try acti­vat­ing the extra rinse next time. The stiff fab­ric of trousers can be soft­ened by iron­ing them with a steam iron or steam gen­er­a­tor, but only through a fab­ric or gauze fold­ed in sev­er­al lay­ers.

How to restore bright and saturated color

If over time the black fad­ed, became less bright, and the prod­ucts began to look worn, you can use a very easy method to restore the bright­ness of the col­or. You just need to treat the jeans with a spe­cial paint for clothes. It is dif­fi­cult to find such a prod­uct in sta­tion­ary stores, but on sites on the Inter­net the assort­ment is wide, there are options for any bud­get. And most impor­tant­ly, to use the drug, you do not need to have any spe­cial knowl­edge and skills or have expen­sive equip­ment and tech­nol­o­gy at your dis­pos­al. Sim­ply fol­low the instruc­tions on the paint pack­age. It may dif­fer depend­ing on the com­po­si­tion of the prod­uct. But, as a rule, you need to dilute the paint, add water, soak the jeans in it for a cer­tain time, then rinse the prod­uct in sev­er­al changes of water. If the prod­uct is of high qual­i­ty, then it will col­or the fibers and you don’t have to wor­ry about the dura­bil­i­ty of the pig­ments. If this is a low-qual­i­ty prepa­ra­tion, for some time after the pro­ce­dure, jeans can stain the skin, as well as oth­er wardrobe items.

On the net you can find tips on how to restore the black col­or of the fab­ric in sev­er­al more ways, for exam­ple:

1. Wash the fad­ed prod­uct with oth­er black items that shed. This is an inef­fec­tive, even dubi­ous way, since the col­or of the jeans will not become more sat­u­rat­ed, the dif­fer­ence will be dif­fi­cult to notice with the naked eye. And there is noth­ing good in the fact that your oth­er things shed, you need to wash them as lit­tle as pos­si­ble and use col­or enhancers.

2. Col­or black jeans with hair dye, mak­ing it accord­ing to the instruc­tions, and then dilut­ing it in water to soak the prod­ucts. This method can be used only as a last resort, when there is no spe­cial fab­ric dye at hand, but there is just a hair dye. Oth­er­wise, it is advis­able to spend mon­ey on a spe­cial drug, espe­cial­ly since, most like­ly, it will cost much less than hair dye.

Obvi­ous­ly, in order to return the bright col­or and pre­sentable look to black jeans, it is bet­ter to use a spe­cial dye. For exam­ple, “Surf” is a uni­ver­sal paint for fab­ric pro­cess­ing at home. Or “Sim­pli­col”, which received a lot of pos­i­tive feed­back. This tool is intend­ed for pro­cess­ing nat­ur­al and semi-syn­thet­ic fab­rics man­u­al­ly or in an auto­mat­ic type wash­ing machine. The com­po­si­tion of the drug includes a pig­ment fix­er, which guar­an­tees col­or sat­u­ra­tion and a last­ing result.