Eileen Chang said: "when silk flows gently on women, it is a sigh, a caress, a pity, an amazing beauty, an amazing harmony, because women are pure silk. 'for women, comfortable and soft mulberry silk clothes in summer are the favorite of many people. They not only have good texture, but also can improve their temperament. How to clean and maintain mulberry silk clothes?
Cleaning method:
1. Use cold water or warm water within 30 ℃, add cold detergent or neutral detergent, gently rub with hands, and then soften with softener. If you use the washing machine, please put it into the washing net and choose gentle.
2. If there are wrinkles, just hang them on a hanger and air dry them naturally in the shade. Air them to 80% dry and iron them at medium low temperature. The best way to remove wrinkles is to iron them with the reverse side up to keep luster. Do not spray water and avoid water stains.
Why do silk clothes turn yellow easily?
There are two reasons for yellowing
The first reason
Silk itself protein denaturation and yellowing, for this reason due to protein denaturation is no way to change;
The second reason
Yellow stains caused by sweat contamination. This is mainly because sweat contains a small amount of protein, urea and other organic substances, which will combine with dust to form some stains that are difficult to clean.
Q5: how to clean the yellow stains caused by sweat?
For yellow stains caused by sweat, there are the following cleaning methods
1. Wash with rice water
Rice washing water is weakly alkaline, which can react with the oil in the stain to make it into other substances soluble in water. First, soak the silk clothes in rice washing water for about 20 minutes, and then wash them regularly.
2. Lemon juice or lemon vinegar
This is actually the use of acid-base neutralization reaction. After neutralization reaction, some residues on the imprinted part can react with the Yellow imprint, which can also remove the Yellow imprint.
Q6: how to iron silk clothes and what are the key points of operation?
The wrinkle resistance of silk clothing is slightly worse than that of chemical fiber, so there is a saying that 'wrinkle free is not real silk'. If it's wrinkled, we need to iron it to make it stiff again.
When ironing, air the clothes to 70% dry, spray water evenly, and wait for 3-5 minutes. The ironing temperature should be controlled below 150 ℃. The iron should not touch the silk surface directly.
Note that the silk must be covered with a layer of wet cloth and then ironed to prevent the high temperature from making the silk brittle or even scorched.
Q7: how to store silk clothes?
1. Silk garments should be washed and ironed before collection. Clothes, coats and cheongsam that are inconvenient to be disassembled and cleaned in autumn and winter should be dry cleaned and ironed to prevent mildew and moth. After ironing, it can also play the role of sterilization and pest control.
2. The boxes and cabinets for storing clothes should be kept clean and sealed as far as possible to prevent dust pollution.
Q8: what should you pay attention to when wearing and maintaining silk clothes?
1. Pay attention to the size of silk clothing.
Buy 2-4cm larger than your original size, which is comfortable to wear and not easy to damage silk protein fiber.
2. Because the silk fiber is relatively fine, it can not stand excessive friction.
Therefore, when wearing silk, do not sleep on the mat or rattan chair, and pay special attention not to strenuous exercise, such as riding a bicycle, in order to prevent severe friction of the fabric, resulting in yarn drawing and displacement.
3. Don't spray deodorant or put camphor balls.
Deodorant, camphor pill, these are chemicals, easy to damage the silk, affect the wearing life. White silk, in particular, will make the fabric yellow.
4. Silk clothes should not be exposed to the sun after washing.
Generally, it should be dried in a cool and ventilated place. Because the ultraviolet ray in the sun is easy to make the silk fabric yellowing, fading and aging.
Once a female friend complained that the quality of silk clothes was really poor, it was not durable at all, it was expensive, and it was not worth the price at all.