Important Tips For Cleaning Your Duvet Bedding
Laundering duvet bedding takes a long time, so before you embark on this journey make sure you have some type of entertainment available to you while you wait. Taking your duvet bedding to a laundromat is a sure fire way to make sure there is enough room in the machine, but if you have a large front loading machine at home that will do also. A machine capable of a ten to twelve pound load will work best. It is advisable to launder your duvet bedding semi-annually, but if you shake it out and hang it up to air out every few months you can usually extend the time between washings, depending on the amount of usage it gets.
For laundry soap, you will need a low-sudsing, low-alkaline, neutral pH formula soap that won’t dry out the feathers or remove their natural oil. If you can’t get a soap like this use a very small (size of a dime) amount of dish soap. Make sure to wash your duvet bedding in cool or cold water. This will preserve the natural oils in the feathers.
To keep your duvet soft and fluffy, make sure that it has been rinsed thoroughly after the wash cycle. The rinse cycle should be run at least 3 times. A cold or cool setting should be used for the rinse cycle, just like the wash cycle. If even a small amount of soap is left you run the risk of lumps and clumps in your duvet.
Drying in a cool dryer is advisable. This may take some extra time, but if it is done this way you avoid the risk of drying out the feathers. Try throwing in a couple of tennis balls with your duvet bedding to restore any loft that was lost during the washing process. Hanging the duvet periodically is also great to redistribute the filling.
Once you are completely sure the duvet is 100% dry all that is left is to throw on a duvet cover. You’re good for one more year.
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