How to wash linen properly? How to wash and maintain linen properly
4hw.com.cn: many people wear flax clothes in summer. Flax has the characteristics of air permeability and cool, but it's a troublesome thing to clean linen clothes. Do you know how to clean clothes correctly? How to care for linen? Let's have a look.
How to wash linen
1. Linen clothes must be washed in cold water. It is better not to wash them in warm water, because the color fastness of linen clothes is generally poor. If the water temperature is too high, it is easy to cause fading.
2. When washing cotton and linen clothes, first wash the serious stains on the clothes by gently rubbing, and then gently rub and rinse the clothes as a whole.
3. When washing linen clothes, it is better to use neutral detergent or washing liquid. It is not recommended to use washing powder. Because the amount of alkali contained in washing powder is high, if linen clothes are washed, it may cause discoloration.
4. After washing linen clothes, they can be over acid. The advantage of over acid is that it can make the color of linen more fixed. The way to over sour is to add 5% white vinegar into the water, put the linen clothes in, soak for about 2 minutes.
5. After cleaning, the linen clothes should be stretched flat before drying, otherwise it is easy to wrinkle.
6. Put the clothes on a clean and flat surface, and ventilate and dry them in a cool place. If you want to dry clothes quickly, in order to avoid stretching deformation of clothes due to overall suspension, you can use multiple hangers to hang clothes to dry, or you can use a fan to dry them.
How to prevent the shrinkage of linen
1. Hand washing is the best way to wash linen.
2. The detergent used in washing must be neutral detergent, and the best choice is washing liquid.
3. After washing, it is better not to use washing machine to dehydrate. Dehydration is the main cause of shrinkage.
4. When washing, don't rub hard, first soak it in advance, then gently rub it. Excessive rubbing will not only reduce the size of the clothes, but also make them easily fluff, so it will affect their life span.
How to maintain linen
1. When wearing hemp clothes, it's better not to wear them for too long. The best way is to take them off and hang them in one day, so that they will become more flat because of their own gravity. It can prevent the clothes from wrinkling.
2. Don't expose the clothes to the sun, so as not to reduce the firmness or fade and turn yellow.
3. Wash and cool dry, and keep the dark and light colored clothes separately.