Wool, silk, cotton: how to maintain natural materials?
Merino wool, superior cotton, silk ... The high-end natural materials that make up many of our underwear and clothing should be carefully washed. Tour of the best tips to maintain, wash, dry and store these materials while now beautiful.
Silk maintenance
The silk lingerie is omnipresent at SIPP Lingerie, whether in store and on our website.
Silk is a natural matter Very fine and extremely flexible, which makes it very nice to wear on the skin.
Contrary to what one can think, silk clothes are not the most delicate.
- If you wash silk clothing by hand, take care of do not soak This one in the water more than 5 minutes.
- Mesh is just as good, but taking care to use a delicate program for wool or silk
- Choose a Laundry for delicate fabrics (you will find on lingerie-sipp.com)
- Silk must be washed with lowest possible temperature.
- Our trick for have brilliant silk clothes And are crushing: add white vinegar in the last rinse water.
- Avoid using a softener on silk: it's useless!
- Let tie in looks and the sun shelter to avoid yellowing and loss of brilliance. Keep it away from heat sources in general.
- No tumble dryer on silk!
Cotton maintenance
At Lingerie Sipp, we offer a wide choice of clothes and Cotton underwear high quality, from the nightdressat pair of pajamas through bathrobes, and other pleasant clothes of everyday life.
Egyptian cotton pure, thread of Scotland ... the noble cotton is comfortable, naturally resistant and durable. However, some things are to know to maintain it:
- Cotton washing machine
You are used to it and you are right because cotton supports very well the machine washing, even at high temperature: 90 ° for cotton, 30 to 60 ° for colored cotton.
- Colorful cotton: TRI!
If high-end cotton clothing presented on lingerie-sipp.com Do not tend to dampen, it is still better to wash together similar cottons. - Shrink ... or not
Cotton can sometimes shrink during the first wash. If so, it can shrink about 5 to 10%. However, if it seems to have narrowed, a cotton knit keeps all its elasticity! When you wear it, it relaxes and finds almost all its original dimension. - Iron when you want
Any cotton garment can be ironed. Certain brands reputed as Oscalito propose clothes in cotton knit which do not require ironing.
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Merino wool maintenance
It is particularly appreciated for its softness, its absorption capacity, its important insulating power, and even its neutralization of odors! Yet the merino wool deserves special attention because of the complex structure of its fibers.
The surface of the merino wool fiber is covered with superimposed keratin scales, like the tiles of a roof.
When wool is wet, the water seeps under these scales, in the heart of the fiber. In some cases, this infiltration can cause a disordered entanglement of the scales, which is irreversible. We call it the Felming of wool.
4 tips to avoid felting
merino wool
For Preserve the merino wool of the felting, here's how to use your washing machine:
1. Choose a laundry for wool
Use a soap, shampoo or special wool laundry, or a soft laundry without relaxing or bleaching agent, such as SOFT SOLETEL LESSIVE Lingerie.
2. Select a program for wool
Washing machines usually have a special wool program or a "fragile linen" program whose rotation speed and temperature are suitable for washing merino wool.
3. Adopt a low temperature
The wool is lavated at 30 ° maximum. You can even wash the wool with cold water! Think about when you launch your washing machine!
4. Empty the machine without waiting
The wool fibers do not hurt to stay soaked too long. So you have to make the wool dry immediately.
In any case, better always worth Read indications on the label From your merino wool clothing.
How to dry a garment
in merino wool?
- No tumble dryer!
- Woolen clothing To avoid damaging and distorting the fibers. You can gently squeeze the wool or sandwich in a towel towel to eliminate the water contained in woolen fibers.
- Dry the wool, for example, by the garment on a dry towel. Hang a wool clothing on hanger or linen thread tends to distort wool fibers!
- Removing the heat wool On pain of seeing it shrink! So do not dry it near a radiator or sun ...
Maintain wool and silk clothing
With flagship brands like Calida, Oscalito or Fraly, Lingerie Sipp offers a wide range of Wool and silk clothing, luxurious mix particularly pleasant to wear.
Felting, narrowing, loss of cracking: Overall, tips to avoid this are the same as for merino wool. To start with spinning!
- Limit the spin time machine
- Choose a spin at 400 rpm maximum
- The dryer is always to be proscribed
- Dry clothes wool and silk to the sun shelter so that it keeps all its beauty!
Finally, Attention to the mites Because these small insects can attack the fibers! In summer, you can Store wool clothes Silk with shelter in a closed cupboard or a waterproof box, but beware:
- Always wash the clothes before
- Also wash the closet or the box, and pass the vacuum in the grooves!
- Eliminate all traces of residual moisture
- Ranger clothes in the freshest location of the dressing room
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Know how to store clothes
We have just seen it throughout this article on theMaintenance of natural fiber clothings, these must be protected as much as possible external agents like:
- light
- atmosphere
- humidity
- mold
- insects
Ideally, so well worth Store clothes in a closed cupboard, in a dry room (avoid the bathroom), and fresh. Finally, you can use antimtic products, which are usually placed in the dressing room, if you fear the attacks of small animals.