How to clean rabbit fur at home: practical tips

The outer clothing of rabbit fur is warm and beautiful. Like any thing, it needs proper care: timely and proper cleaning. You can clean fur clothes in dry cleaning, but knowing how to do it properly at home, you can manage yourself. The following tools are suitable for this:

• talc;
• vinegar;
• hydrogen peroxide;
• bran;
• semolina;
• liquid ammonia;
• petrol;
• starch;
• soft brush.

Bran, talc and starch

Starch, semolina and bran are naturally occurring sorbents - they absorb dirt and grease without chemically affecting clothing. Talc has an inorganic( mineral) nature, but it also absorbs organic pollutants and is safe for fur products. By all these means you can clean the fur at home. The technology of removing contaminants with the help of bulk materials is the same:

• on a hat or fur coat apply starch;
• with light movements rub it into the fur;
• leave for a while - 15-30 minutes;
• shake out the fur product and comb out the remains of starch with a soft brush.

Starch and talc may be mixed with bran or semolina in a ratio of 1: 2 - 2 parts of cereals or bran and one part of starch or talc. Clearing a fur coat or a cap from the rests of loose materials, it is necessary to operate very accurately and to make movements in a direction of growth of villi. Rabbit fur is tender, and the villi are thin. If you use a stiff brush or make sharp movements during cleaning, you can damage the fur product.

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Absorbing dirt, sorbents change their color. Cleaning should be done until the starch or talc remains white.

Grandmother's secrets

Earlier, when a lot of snow fell out in the winter, it did not become gray from automobile exhausts and production waste, a fur coat was cleaned in frosty weather on the street. She was laid nap to the snow and knocked. As a result, all the dust and dirt came off the fur coat, it became clean and shiny. Today, such an opportunity exists only among residents of ecologically clean areas where snow falls in winter.

However, in a similar way, you can still clean the fur at home by replacing the snow with a damp white cotton cloth:

• hang the coat on the hangers;
• wrap it with damp clean cloth;
• knock out.

In case of severe dirt, change the fabric to clean and repeat the process. The field of how the dust is removed, you can go to the cleaning of organic contaminants - greasy spots on the collar or sleeves and, if necessary, stains.

Removing stains

If splashes of grease accidentally hit the coat, it is not necessary to use strong stain removers. A solution of water and vinegar - 1: 1 - also helps remove stains at home. Similarly, organic contaminants are removed on the collar and sleeves. You can use this recipe:

• 400 ml of water;
• 1 tbsp.a spoonful of ammonia;
• 3 tbsp.tablespoons of salt.

Half an hour after application of the solution, the place with the stain should be wiped with a clean damp cloth and then dry with cotton or linen. Another good way is "White Spirit", mixed in equal proportion with ammonia. After application, it must also be removed with a damp cloth.

Hot wheat or rye bran is an option for removing stubborn fat stains that are not cleaned by other methods. For this, the bran is placed on a preheated and, of course, a clean frying pan. Stirring, they heat up to about 50 degrees. You can determine by touching bran: once the hand is hot, the desired temperature is reached. After that, the heated mass is rubbed into the problem area until the stain disappears.

How to clean the lining?

Often in fur products the top is clean, and on the lining there are spots. In order not to separate it from a fur coat, you can use the following methods.

• Spots from the sweat on the lining of the fur coat can be cleaned by applying a mixture of methylated spirit and ammonia in equal parts.
• For soap fabric and soap solution, but it must be applied carefully so that moisture does not get on the skin.
• Spray "Amway" - the ideal tool for removing contaminants from the lining of fur coats at home. It is sufficient to apply it to the contamination, and then remove it with a clean sponge.

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"White Spirit" can be replaced with refined gasoline( petrol for lighters has a high degree of purification).The proportions in the solutions remain the same.

How to clean white fur?

White fur has the property of acquiring a yellowish tinge over time. Remove it will help the following solution:

• ammonia - 0.5 tsp;
• hydrogen peroxide - 1 tsp;
• water - 200 ml.

With a rag soaked in this solution, wipe the fur and allow it to dry. It is also possible to prepare a gruel from burnt magnesia( magnesium oxide) and refined gasoline. She rubbed into the fur of a rabbit, and after a while a fur coat, a cape or a cap is shaken, and the remains of gruel are carefully combed. The fur product should dry naturally, without using a hair dryer and other heating appliances. The disadvantage of this method is the smell of gasoline. To remove it, after thorough drying, wipe the fur with a sponge soaked in an aqueous solution of vinegar( ratio - 1: 1).But even without vinegar, the smell disappears within a week.

Advice

Before removing yellowing, it is necessary to clean the fur garment from dust and dirt with the help of starch or bran.

Precautions

Any fur, and especially rabbit fur is a delicate material. Inaccurate actions can spoil him forever. To clean a fur coat or a cloak and not to aggravate its condition, it is necessary to remember a few "taboos":

• in no case can not wash fur things;
• is not recommended for the removal of stains of potent chemicals;
• does not need to comb the comb of a comb with frequent teeth;
• can not dry fur clothes on the battery or with a hot hair dryer.

Remembering these simple rules, you can cope with pollution yourself and wear your favorite fur coat for many years.