Cleaning a hat at home: fur, mink, wool

The question of how to clean a mink hat, as well as any other fur headdress, is more relevant for modern fashionistas than ever. Over the past 15-20 years, fur hats have ceased to be faceless mink earflaps, but have acquired a variety of forms - caps, berets, bells, fluffy hats with long pile, boyarkas, fur bonnets, and colors - shades of brown, beige, gray, as well as fancy colors: pink, blue, yellow.

In addition to fur products, knitted headdresses with fur pom-poms have remained relevant for several seasons. They give the image youth, freshness and spontaneity. So, in the sea of ​​variety of hats, we found our “own” favorite hat, a faithful companion in the frosty winter. But like any thing, it can get dirty, dusty and lose its charm. To restore its shine, you need to wash the fur hat or clean it in a special way - using dry cleaning. This can be done at home.

How to clean a mink hat

Before cleaning a mink hat at home, determine the degree of contamination and, depending on this, choose the appropriate method. For example, a stain (greasy or dirty) can be cleaned with soap suds. And to refresh the appearance by removing dust deposits - using an absorbent. Let's take a closer look at both of these methods.

To wet clean a heavily soiled fur item, do the following:

1. Pour liquid detergent for woolen or delicate items into a basin. Shampoo is also perfect for this purpose.
2. Direct a strong stream of water onto the product, causing foam to form. This is what you will need to wash your mink hat at home.
3. Wrap a three-liter jar with a towel so that the hat does not slip on the glass, and put a hat on it. You can also use a mannequin, if available.
4. Take the foam with a sponge and apply it to the rest of the fur. It is important that the inner layer, the bottom layer of the skin, does not get wet. Then it will become stiff and may shrink.
5. Wash off any remaining foam with a sponge soaked in clean water.
6. Shake the headdress and leave to dry at room temperature.
7. Brush the completely dry hat with a brush with smooth, wide teeth.

Tip: in order not to damage the inner layer, you can apply the cleaning solution to the headdress using a spray bottle, and then wash it off with a sponge soaked in clean water.

To refresh the appearance, you can dry clean at home using an absorbent: talc, starch, hot bran, oatmeal ground in a blender, semolina. The principle of dry cleaning is that an absorbent substance absorbs dirt and is then shaken out of the fur. This is done step by step like this:

1. If bran is used, heat it in a frying pan without letting it burn. For other substances, heating is not required.
2. Apply absorbent to a dry mink hat.
3. Walk over the surface of the headdress using rubbing movements.
4. Shake out any remaining absorbent.
5. If necessary, you can repeat the procedure several times.
6. The last time you should shake out the hat more thoroughly so that not a single particle of absorbent remains in the fur.

Tip: a knitted mink hat can be considered a separate type. Many of its owners boldly wash this headdress by hand and then dry it by stretching it over a mannequin or a three-liter jar. However, manufacturers categorically do not recommend doing this! And the cost of error is too high...

How to wash a fur hat

The methods described above are suitable for cleaning fur hats at home. In addition, there are folk methods suitable for almost any type of fur. Let's look at them.

To clean beaver and otter fur, a method using hot sand is suitable:

1. Apply sand to the product.
2. Actively walk your hand over the surface of the fur.
3. Shake out the remaining sand.
4. Repeat the procedure several times.
5. Shake the sand out of the fur very carefully one last time.

You can use a special solution to remove stains. Here are two recipes for its preparation:

1. Ammonia water (25% aqueous ammonia solution) + denatured alcohol (1:1 ratio);
2. Ammonia water + table salt + water (in a ratio of 1:3:50).

Moisten a cotton pad with this solution and wipe the pile.

Tip: If wet cleaning is used at home, drying should be carried out at room temperature. Drying is excluded: near radiators, directly on the radiator, over an open fire.

How to wash a knitted hat with a fur pompom

For several seasons in a row, women have chosen a woolen knitted hat with a pompom as a headdress. Fur creates the appropriate mood, and the hat itself is much cheaper than an all-fur one.However, when it comes to washing, a dilemma arises: the hat can be washed, but the fur cannot be washed. So what should we do?

There are several tips to help solve this problem:

1. The pompom can be torn off and the woolen hat washed in accordance with the rules washing woolen items.
2. A headdress with a pompom can be partially washed, being careful not to wet the “fluffy ball”. This applies to cases where dirt appears on the knitted part. It is especially common to deal with stains on white hats. They get dirty when they come into contact with your hands, with foundation on your face or with traces of sweat. It is unreasonable to rip off a pompom every time, but it is quite possible to carefully wash off the “problem” without touching the fur with wet hands.
3. This method was born from the ingenuity of lovers of knitted hats with a pompom. Before washing, you should put a thick plastic bag on the “fluffy ball” and tighten it tightly at the bottom with an elastic band (preferably from money). You can then safely wash your wool hat as usual.

Modern fashionistas are lucky. A fur boyarka, a fashionable cap or a knitted wool hat with a pompom lovingly warms its owners in snowy, frosty winters. Fashion has never been so warm and cozy! So you treat fur hats with mutual love: clean them and care for them correctly.