What are delicate clothes?

When we say delicate clothes we mean clothes made from delicate fibers, like shirts, blouses or shirts made from rayon, cupro, linen, lingerie, stockings and swimwear polyamide, polyester and lycra.

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1. We should select delicate care program or delicates program to wash these garments and load only halfway.

2. For wool or silk, select the program of wool, silk or hand wash and we load the washing machine to a third full.

What care require delicate clothes?

There are some clothes that require special care. There are washing detergents in the market designed for this kind of fabrics, they are softer formulas with ingredients that act as a balm on the fibers. These are products with a very creamy texture, most of which can be used for both washing machine and hand.

Some delicate fabrics like wool or silk are very vulnerable to attacks by enzymes that most conventional detergents incorporate. Instead, specific detergents for delicates lack them and this is the reason that are the appropriate choice for this type of washing. In addition to optimum results at all, these garments should be washed inside out.

It is generally advisable to use neutral soap for such garments, in toiletries and cleaning is often used the term "neutral pH ". In this case neutral refers to a pH level of 5.5 . Due to the characteristics of human skin, the pH is 5.5, neutral pH indicated in this type of products that are intended to come into contact with the skin to highlight its not aggression.

Is it necessary to use fabric softener?

Detergents, especially liquid, its composition itself have some softening power. If you want softener can be added, -especially for wash wool-, whose main ingredients are cationic surfactants, these agents adhere to the fibers of clothing, avoiding that they interlock with each other and thereby provide softness to the garment so that last longer.

There are also 2 in 1 detergents, they are products that incorporate the softening properties other than their own detergent. Furthermore, the latter is incorporated into these detergents microencapsulated perfumes, consists of small capsules containing fragrance therein during washing and stick to the fibers. Then, for the use of the garment will " smashing " by rubbing and releasing the fragrance.

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Actually almost everything would wash by hand, in the case of the label says hand wash, can be washed in a washing machine with a program for delicates ... and to prevent accidents down the temperature or put the program at 0º and chose gentle centrifuge.