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Wool cover care

Tracy - posted on 11/11/2008 ( 3 moms have responded )

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Hi --
I have a beautiful Imse Vimse wool cover and I'm not sure of how to care for it. Any suggestions? Any products readily available that I could use?

Thanks in advance,
Tracy

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Tracy - posted on 11/12/2008

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Wow, thanks, so helpful! I'll do it today. I'm also going to check out your site.

Thanks, again.

Vilate - posted on 11/12/2008

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The best way to get best results from your wool is to wash in in luke warm water and baby soap, I use Johnson and Johnson, just a few squirts, or you can use wool wash. Then you just hand wash it, wring it out then on to lanolizing.
You need some lanolin, you can us the lanolish that is for breast feeding (but I find that the expensive way to go) I buy it in bulk-1 lb. on ebay.
Take one cup of water and microwave it for 3 min. add one tsp. of lanolin and a few squirts of baby soap (to help emulsify) then stir it until the lanolin dissolves. Add this to a lrg. bowl (not a good idea to do it in your sink, the fiber can clog your drain.) with luke warm water, stir around then put in your soaker. You will want to soak it for about 8hrs. and every so often you want to kinda massage in the lanolin into the soaker.
When the soaker is done soaking wring it out.
Next there are a few things you can do, you can use a towel and roll the soaker up in it tight and squeeze the water out. I don't like this method because I think the towel wicks away some of the lanolin.

I prefer to throw them in the washer on the spin cycle. Then hang them out to dry, outside if possible. The longer you can wait (8-24 hrs) before using the better, it is good to have a few to rotate. I have like 8, a few soakers and the rest longies since it is starting to get cold here.

Soakers usually only need to be lanolized one a month, unless they get soiled.
In the mean time when they get wet you just hang them up to dry, the lanolin changes the urine into salt water that just needs to dry out. If they get dirty, like food, or poo then you have to wash and relanolize.

I hope this helps, if you have any questions just ask! Good luck, I LOVE wool. I have started to make some to sell on my etsy shop. I am sewing some more as we speak.
http://www.vilatesniftnook.etsy.com

Let me know how you like it.

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