Cleaning your cashmere
How often have you put your favourite cashmere or wool in the wash only to pull it our afterwards a size too small, or looking like a sack?
How often have you put your favourite cashmere or wool in the wash only to pull it our afterwards a size too small, or looking like a sack?
No doubt you pulled your woollens or cashmeres from cupboard only to find holes caused by moths. But when does it start and how do you prevent it?
Have you picked your clothes up from the dry cleaner only to find that some of the stains haven’t come out? The chances are that you have at some time and wondered why.
What should you do when food or wine goes flying only to land on your dry clean only clothes?
If you can’t fit the dry cleaners in for a few days your clothes should be ok. However the longer a stain is left the more it will set as it oxidizes. When you cut an apple open, the white of the apple turns brown as the sugar reacts to the oxygen, known as oxidizing. The same happens if sugar liquid (clear soda, juice, or white wine) spills on your clothes. It dries clear, only to turn brown after a couple months. Once this happens it will be very difficult to remove, if not impossible. Oil stains such body oil and grease can also oxidize and they are even more difficult to remove than oxidized sugar stains.
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