How to Wash Silk
Silk is a luxurious and beautiful fabric that is smooth and can be shiny. It is not all that hard to clean silk. Silk is very comfortable on your skin since it is so smooth and can control moisture. It is very washable when done properly. If you wish to learn how to wash silk clothing, just hollow these simple steps thoroughly and you will not have to take your silk clothes to the dry cleaners every time.
When compared to cleaning a more durable fabric such as linen, cleaning silk takes a lot more care and effort. Thus, before you clean silk, it is best that you try cleaning a small and inconspicuous spot of your silk clothes to see that your method of cleaning the silk has no adverse effect on the fabric.
If you wish to know how to hand wash silk, the following is one method to do so. First, take two quarts of very cold water and add a half cup of mild laundry detergent solution. Next, add 2 tablespoons of white vinegar to the mixture of cold water and detergent. After you have mixed the vinegar and detergent with the cold water, take the silk item and gently dip it into the detergent mixture. As you dip the silk item up and down into the mixture, make sure that you don't soak the silk item. Once the silk item looks to have been cleaned up, it will then be time to rinse it in cold water. Dunk the silk item up and down until it is rinsed clear of the detergent water. You can let the silk item drip till it is just wet. Then you can take the silk item and roll it up into a towel and iron the silk item while it is still wet.
If you are worried about the silk item turning yellow, you can prevent any possible yellowing by putting half a cup of white vinegar into the rinse water. Again if you are worried about what may happen to the silk if you wash it, you may want to test the silk on an inconspicuous spot before dunking the entire silk item into water. Washing silk is not time consuming and is actually a rather easy thing to do since silk itself sheds dirt fairly well.
I hope this article has taught you how to wash silk clothes. Good luck!
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I often was most of my silk in baby shampoo & vinegar. "Essence of Silk" has some of the best silk selection at the best prices.
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