How to wash cashmere

Cash­mere cloth­ing is soft, warm and very durable, since rare fibers in the under­coat of cash­mere Chi­nese and Mon­go­lian goats are used to make this yarn. If you fol­low the rules for car­ing for the mate­r­i­al, it will last a long time. A suit­able wash­ing method for cash­mere prod­ucts is pro­fes­sion­al dry clean­ing, but you can also ensure that your clothes are prop­er­ly cared for at home.

Preparatory actions

First of all, inspect the prod­uct and check if there are pel­lets on its sur­face. If there are any, remove them with a spe­cial machine.

Next, remove any stains on the fab­ric. Do not use bleach or bleach. If the stain is very recent, hold the fab­ric over the steam while the water is boil­ing, then iron the stain from the inside out.

If the stain is old, use dish soap or liq­uid laun­dry deter­gent. Apply a small amount of prod­uct to the stain for 30–40 min­utes, then gen­tly rinse the stained area with warm water.

Grease stains are well removed with soda. Pour a small amount of pow­der on the fab­ric, wait up to 3 hours and shake out the remain­ing soda.

You can soak the cash­mere prod­uct for 30 min­utes in soapy water before wash­ing. This will remove strong, old con­t­a­m­i­nants. If the clothes are not soiled, it is enough to shake them sev­er­al times to remove the accu­mu­lat­ed dust. If fluff and small debris accu­mu­late in the seams, use a cot­ton swab moist­ened with water. Inter­nal seams can be cleaned with a brush.

Atten­tion! If there are met­al ele­ments on the prod­uct, we rec­om­mend tear­ing them off. With­out this, the met­al under the influ­ence of the wash­ing solu­tion can oxi­dize and ruin clothes.

Also make sure that there are no objects in the pock­ets of the prod­uct. Fas­ten your clothes with all but­tons.

How to wash cashmere by hand

For wash­ing cash­mere prod­ucts, prod­ucts intend­ed for the care of wool are suit­able. For extra soft­en­ing of clothes, add sham­poo to wash your hair. Regard­less of the cho­sen prod­uct, its com­po­si­tion should not con­tain bleach­ing com­po­nents and chem­i­cals with an aggres­sive effect.

The water should not be hot, oth­er­wise the clothes will shrink sig­nif­i­cant­ly. Also, do not use cold water. It is impos­si­ble to rinse the prod­uct under run­ning water — oth­er­wise the shape of the knit­ting will be sig­nif­i­cant­ly deformed.

If the water is too hard, soda (1 tea­spoon per 10 liters of water) or an indus­tri­al emol­lient should be added to the con­tain­er. Also, this water can be pre-boiled.

Pro­ce­dure:

1. Fill a basin with warm water and add a clean­ing agent;
2. Turn the cash­mere prod­uct inside out and place it in a con­tain­er;
3. Gen­tly wash the prod­uct in soapy water for 5 min­utes. Weak­ly squeeze the clothes in var­i­ous places on one side, then turn over and repeat the pro­ce­dure on the oth­er side;
4. Fill the con­tain­er with clean warm water and rinse the item, repeat sev­er­al times. You can add con­di­tion­er dur­ing the rinse to make clothes even soft­er. 1 tsp glyc­erin will also pro­vide soft­ness and smooth­ness to the fab­ric;
5. Squeeze the prod­uct light­ly so that the bulk of the water is glass, but do not twist it;
6. Place the item on a dry tow­el on a flat sur­face, roll it into a tube and unfold it. If the clothes are still wet, take a new dry tow­el and repeat the pro­ce­dure;
7. Hang the prod­uct on the back of an easy chair, sofa or on a dry­ing rack.

Do not use too much deter­gent when wash­ing, oth­er­wise it will wash out the paint.

How to wash cashmere in the washing machine

Read the infor­ma­tion on the label care­ful­ly. Make sure the man­u­fac­tur­er is machine wash­able. So, if the label says “cash­mere (WS) 100%”, this means that the prod­uct can­not be washed. For such things, only dry wash­ing is per­mis­si­ble — for this you will have to con­tact the dry clean­er. Hand wash is used when the clothes addi­tion­al­ly con­tain cot­ton, silk, wool.

If syn­thet­ic threads (poly­ester, acrylic) were addi­tion­al­ly used in the pro­duc­tion of the fab­ric, then in this case the machine wash of the prod­uct is accept­able.

If you wash a cash­mere prod­uct with the manufacturer’s pro­hi­bi­tion to wet the thing, then the dou­bler, thanks to which the thing keeps its shape, will be com­plete­ly washed out. This will lead to sig­nif­i­cant irrepara­ble defects in the fab­ric, as a result of which it will no longer be pos­si­ble to wear dam­aged clothes.

To wash the prod­uct in the machine, you must add a mild deter­gent. Also in stores there are gels for cash­mere wool, which con­tain soft­en­ers. It is not rec­om­mend­ed to use stan­dard dry pow­der: large gran­ules are dif­fi­cult to dis­solve in cool water, which risks spoil­ing the appear­ance of cloth­ing. In the absence of spe­cial­ized prod­ucts, add baby or stan­dard liq­uid soap.

Suit­able water for wash­ing is warm or cool, as the item will shrink in hot wool.

Pro­ce­dure:

1. Turn the cash­mere prod­uct inside out;
2. Place the item in a spe­cial bag to pro­tect it from fric­tion;
3. Set the wash­ing cycle to man­u­al, and in its absence — the short­est, with a tem­per­a­ture of up to 30 ° C and a drum speed of up to 600 rpm .;
4. After wash­ing, place the prod­uct on a flat sur­face. Do not hang it under any cir­cum­stances, oth­er­wise it will be deformed.

Auto­mat­ic spin­ning in a type­writer is pro­hib­it­ed, as it risks deform­ing and stretch­ing the fab­ric. It is enough to let the excess liq­uid drain, and then straight­en the prod­uct on a ter­ry tow­el. Cash­mere prod­ucts should be dried nat­u­ral­ly at room tem­per­a­ture. It is unac­cept­able to place them near sources of light and heat, under direct sun­light.

Items such as cash­mere coats or rain­coats should be pro­fes­sion­al­ly dry cleaned.

Features of storage of cashmere products

Cash­mere prod­ucts should not be crum­pled — oth­er­wise the fibers in the threads will be dam­aged, and the thing itself will stretch and wear out quick­ly. Fold it care­ful­ly and place it on the shelf. Roll your clothes into a roll, avoid­ing the for­ma­tion of creas­es. Put coats and rain­coats for long-term stor­age in a spe­cial bag.

It is advis­able to place bags of laven­der or cedar in the clos­et where cash­mere is stored — this will scare away the moths.

If the cash­mere prod­uct has shrunk due to improp­er wash­ing, soak it in warm water, adding 1 tsp. hydro­gen per­ox­ide. And if the clothes are stretched, wash them in hot water, then dry them with­out remov­ing excess mois­ture.

Do not use an iron. If the cash­mere prod­uct is wrin­kled, it is enough to steam it.