Love Your Clothes and Jenniffer Taylor give you advice on how to wash silk and drying silk garments. Always check the label of your garment to make sure your clothes aren’t dry clean only.

Second tip, we recommend drying your hair or putting on any perfume before you put on your silk clothes as either could damage the fibers in your clothes.

The best way to wash silk is by hand as washing machines can damage silk. Use an appropriate delicate detergent in a bowl of water around 30 degrees. When washing silk you want to agitate it in the water but do not ring the silk as it can damage the fibers.

Adding a drop of distilled vinegar can bring your silk back to life when rinsing it. Gently bunch your silk to get out excess water – if you bunch it up you will damage it.

Next get a cold clean towel and place your silk on the towel and wrap it in the towel. Then you can give it a bit more of a squeeze in the towel to get as much as the water out as possible. You should only use plastic coat hangers for silk garments as others can damage.

You then want to hang your silk in the bathroom or somewhere similar as it gets rid of wrinkles without having to iron and potentially damage your silk clothing.

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