How to clean a down jacket in winter is a headache. Especially light-colored down jackets are often not resistant to dirt, especially the collar, cuffs, and corners. However, there are a few precautions you need to know before you decide to wash your down jacket:
Do not wash often
Wash too many times, down is easy to agglomerate, not fluffy, uneven thickness in all parts, resulting in reduced warmth. To prolong the use of down clothing, to ensure its use function, need to reduce the number of washing.
Do not dry-clean
Down jacket filler mainly uses 90 % of the down content of duck down, its main component is protein fiber. Down jackets can not be dry-cleaned, because the dry-cleaning agent will destroy the protein in the down. It will feather down in the oil extraction, and grease stain penetration into the fabric of the down jacket. So that the fabric discoloration yellow, while the drying process is easy to make the fabric hard aging.
Hand Washing
Special cleaning agent
Cleaning for not too dirty or only local stains the down jacket, you can choose to use the Down special water-free cleaning spray or foam cleaner cleaning. Just spray a wipe, and you can quickly remove the stains on the down jacket and not leave a mark.
Soak completely
For stubborn stains, soak the down jacket in water for 10 minutes to make it completely wet. Dissolve an appropriate amount of neutral detergent in lukewarm water at 40 degrees or below and soak the garment for 15 minutes. You can also use the down jacket special detergent for hand washing.
Do not rub too hard or lumps may form. You can use a soft brush to gently brush the fabric surface, remove stains, and then rinse with water.
Note: When washing by hand, remember not to pull the collar to wash the down jacket back and forth, which will cause the down to cluster and deform the down jacket.
After washing, do not tumble dry or wring out, but use your hands to squeeze out the water. Then hang to dry, which can effectively prevent the down jacket from clumping.
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Washing Machine
Your down jacket is easy to machine wash, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be machine washed. If you must machine wash, be sure to secure the zipper and buttons before washing. The collar, cuffs, and hem of a down jacket can be partially brushed first and then added to the machine wash cycle for particularly stubborn stains.
However, if your down jacket is labeled “not machine washable,” hopefully you can still follow the down jacket washing instructions. Here are some suggestions for reference
Special detergent
Do not use ordinary detergent or washing powder to wash your down jacket, please use professional down jacket cleaner or low concentration of weak alkaline detergent. Otherwise, it will seriously affect the quality of the down, greatly reducing the warmth!
” Down washing ” washing machine
A washing machine to clean down apparel must overcome the down jacket’s internal air, be easy to float, down soft and easy to damage, and not be resistant to chemical corrosion and other problems. So we recommend choosing a washing machine with a “down laundry” function, do not choose the fast wash program.
Laundry ball
Choose “gentle” mode, gentle slow gear, and the water temperature does not exceed 40 degrees. Then stuff a few special laundry balls into the down jacket, so that when the machine washes the ball constantly rolling friction, extrusion of down into the down jacket, the likelihood of not appearing pile down problem.
Using mesh pockets
The reason why the machine washing down jacket is prone to explosion is because the down jacket will produce air when dumped, and the waterproof coating is not conducive to air discharge. To avoid the explosion, the simplest and most direct method is to use a loose mesh pocket to cover the down jacket for fixing. So that you can prevent the down jacket in the high-speed operation of the washing machine when the excessive expansion.