How to Clean Your Coat at Home This Winter

It's the time of yr for digging in our wardrobes and pulling out our favourite wintertime layers. A winter glaze is an investment item, but that doesn't mean we demand to buy a new one every season. Forget expensive dry cleaning: save money and time by learning to make clean your coat at dwelling.

How to clean your coat: Wool blend coat

A wool coat can be cleaned at abode for a fraction of the price of taking it to the dry cleaners, and its just so piece of cake to clean your glaze at dwelling! Start by looking it over carefully to see what needs doing:

Clothes Brush

Step ane:

Are there dry clay marks like mud, dust, food, powder? If so then take our Apparel Castor and give the coat a good castor downward, especially focusing on the spot marks. Don't brush likewise hard! You should notice that most dried on marks volition castor off quite hands. Really, well-nigh of the time your coat only needs a quick castor down rather than a full wet launder - that's the easiest way to clean your coat!

Step ii:

Are at that place stains or discolouration? If so, try spot cleaning the coat, then you lot tin become rid of whatsoever marks without the need for a full wet launder! Catch your favourite Clothes Medico detergent and dab away.

Step three:

Grubby looking bobbles, lint and hair ruining the await? So our Cashmere Comb is perfect, and also so satisfying! Run it gently beyond the material and it will catch the loose fibres so you lot can remove and throw them away - transformational!

How to clean your coat: Leather Jacket

Leather jacket repair

Footstep 1:

Cleaning the Lining: Most probable the but bit of the lining that really needs cleaning is around the armpits, to remove whatsoever odours. The best fashion to do this is with a steamer, with a dash of our Steamer Water in Blue Lily and Bergamot. However you lot need to make certain that you don't overheat the leather itself, then try to pull the lining away from the leather, letting information technology hang down, or if there'due south a separation in the lining, pop a towel inside to protect the leather. Then you can lightly steam the lining to freshen it upward. If you can't separate the lining from the leather in the armpit surface area, for case, if information technology's stitched in place along the arm seam, so it might exist better to spot clean.

Footstep two:

Cleaning the Exterior This is easy, and very mindful to do! Take our Sandalwood Leather Balm, and our Natural Sponge (available to buy as a kit here: Leather Care Kit) and dab the balm onto the leather in a circular motion. One pot of balm should exist good for a whole leather jacket with some to spare. The balm will soften, clean and protect the jacket from damage. When y'all're finished you tin simply give it a light buff with the Bamboo Textile available in the set up. Marvel at the transformation!

And then to sum upwardly, with a bit of cognition and the right essentials, you can safely clean your coat at home and avoid the toxic chemicals, plastic and expense of the dry cleaners. For the perfect clean every time, shop the whole Clothes Doctor range.