How to Clean Your Silk ?
Care of Silk accessories, silk scarves and silk pillowcase.
Silk ranks highly on the list of the most desired and luxurious fabrics in the world, with its recorded history of usage going back thousands of years. However, dry cleaning can be an expensive affair. You can make use of the following steps provided in this article for washing mulberry silk fabrics in a thorough manner, thus saving you a trip to your local dry-cleaning store.
Washing and cleaning silk can be quite easy, provided you observe certain precautions.
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General Precautions To be Taken
• Since silk happens to be made of natural protein fibers, it’s important not to clean it with chlorine bleach as that could damage it irretrievably.
• Avoid exposure to direct sunlight for drying purposes since that could cause extensive damage to silk fibers.
• Alcohol can cause damage to your silk fabrics, which is why it’s crucial not to use alcohol-containing substances. Your hairspray and perfume need to dry properly before you dress.
Hand Washing Silk
• Hand washing is the best way to clean silk fabrics. You can hand wash almost any kind of pure silk fabrics without any shrinkage, provided it has already been pre-shrunk before being sewn.
• Add borax to your washing water if you’re using hard water.
• We recommend using a non-alkaline, mild soap like baby shampoo or Ivory Liquid, along with lukewarm water.
• While rinsing the fabric, add distilled white vinegar as well, to dissolve the soap residue and neutralize any traces of alkali. You can also add a hair conditioner for imbuing the fabric with extra silky texture.
• Don’t use harsh detergents, which contain brighteners or bleaches.
• Avoid soaking pure silk fabrics for more than 5 minutes.
• Don’t twist or wring mulberry silk fabrics for extracting the water – roll it in a towel instead.
Machine Washing Silk
• Hand washing silk is always the best option, even if the fabric has been labeled to be safe for machine washing.
• Always ensure your colors have been separated.
• If you’re using a top-loading washing machine, use mesh bags for added protection. You need not follow this step if you’re using a front-loading washing machine.
• Always use the shortest washing spin cycle.
• Don’t use brightener- or enzyme-containing detergents.
• Mild detergents and Delicate Cycle are highly recommended for machine washing silk.
Silk Care: Ironing Silk
• Use the cool iron setting to press your damp silk sleepwear inside out (The iron generally has this as a ‘Silk’ mode).
• Using excess heat may burn, pucker, or dull pure silk fabrics.
• Don’t wet the fabric locally since this could cause rings to form.
• A lot of wrinkles in your silk fabric can be easily removed by simply hanging it in your bathroom while taking a shower. The humidity will iron everything out and remove most of the wrinkles.
Cleaning Silk: Wrinkle Removal Tips
• You can eliminate minor wrinkles by hanging the sleepwear overnight.
• You can eliminate stubborn wrinkles by using a cool iron set.
• You can also hang the silk sleepwear inside the bathroom while you take a shower. Most wrinkles tend to get erased when you do this, thanks to high humidity levels.
Cleaning Silk: Silk Stain Removal
• Consult your local dry cleaner to learn more tips and tricks regarding silk stain removal.
• Don’t ever use chlorine bleach products on your pure silk fabrics as that could result in fabric discoloration and fiber erosion.
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