How to wash a wedding dress with rhinestones at home?

Each girl carefully prepares for her wedding, because this is one of the happiest and most memorable days in her life. After the wedding is over, the newly-married wife will definitely have a question, how to wash the wedding dress with rhinestones and lace at home? The following article is devoted to this problem.

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Do I need to wash the bride’s outfit?

An important part of preparing for the wedding is the choice of the bride's outfit. Many young girls prefer a wedding dress with embroidered rhinestones and lots of lace. And since the wedding lasts more than one hour and consists of many stages of fun, the appearance of spots on a snow-white dress is simply inevitable. Even if the bride herself is neat and scrupulous, then the hem of the dress will still get dirty.

To clean the dress, you can take it to dry cleaning. But it is expensive and does not give any confidence that all decorative elements will remain in their places. In addition, practice shows that not all dry cleaners take up washing wedding dresses and bring them in perfect order.

Another option for cleaning a snow-white product is self-washing. An important factor in this will be a careful attitude to the dress, because since you will relate to your memorabilia during cleaning, no one will relate to it.

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How to wash a wedding dress at home?

If you want to return along with the chic look and wash the wedding dress with rhinestones and lace at home, the first thing to decide is the type of fabric from which it is sewn. Basically, for sewing a wedding dress, brides use:

• Chiffon;
• Polyester;
• Atlas;
• Silk;
• Guipure;
• Organza

Important! All these fabrics are delicate and delicate. Therefore, they must be washed as carefully as possible in order to preserve the original airy “marshmallow” look of the dress.

The basic rules for washing a wedding dress:

• An elegant dress should be washed in water at a temperature of no higher than 30-35 degrees.

Important! Upon contact with hot water, inserts made from natural materials may be reduced in size.

• Use soft detergents for washing delicate items.

Important! It is not recommended to use washing powders, as they can disrupt the delicate structure of the fabric. Better to choose to wash your wedding attire liquid detergents.

• It is impossible to use bleach and stain removers containing chlorine to wash a wedding dress with rhinestones and lace at home. Such products can ruin the delicate tissue. As a result, divorces may remain on white matter.
• Wash manually or in the washing machine using a gentle washing mode.

Important! A great option would be to choose a program for washing silk.

• The product must not be squeezed. After washing and rinsing, simply leave the dress to drain and dry naturally.

Important! When using a washing machine, it is also worth abandoning the spin function.

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Primary dress processing. Soak

First of all, the wedding dress should be soaked.To do this, it is best to use baby shampoo or delicate detergents. In such products there are no dyes and aggressive components that can ruin the matter. The outfit should lie in a soapy solution for a couple of hours so that the collected dust and dirt completely dissolve in water.

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Removing stains and heavy dirt

The next step before the main wash will be the removal of stains from the fabric of the wedding dress. After the celebration, these spots can be very diverse, ranging from wine and ending with traces of grass and lipstick. First of all, it is necessary to determine the type of stain and, based on this, choose the appropriate method for its removal.

Important! It should be remembered that the longer the pollution is on the fabric, the more it eats up into the fibers and darkens, respectively - it will be much more difficult to get rid of it without spoiling the matter.

Sweat

Having spent such an active day, it is almost impossible to avoid stains from sweat on clothes. The following remedies will help get rid of yellow pollution.

Soap:

1. Turn the outfit inside out.
2. Rub sweat stains with a soapy sponge or brush.
3. Rinse in clear water.

Salt:

1. Prepare a concentrated saline solution from 4 tablespoons of kitchen salt and 2 glasses of water.
2. Soak in the solution the areas stained with sweat for a while.
3. Rinse the dress in clear water.

Important! A similar method to cope with sweat stains on silk fabric.

Wine stains

Wine stains are common on wedding dresses. It is necessary to act with such pollution with lightning speed. While the stain has not absorbed, blot it as quickly as possible with a damp cloth.

Important! Do not rub stains of similar origin. By such actions you will only aggravate the situation and complicate the process of its subsequent elimination.

To successfully remove wine stains, you can use one of the following tools.

Soap solution:

1. Prepare a hot soapy solution.
2. Apply soapy water only to dirt and leave for a while for better action.
3. Rinse the treated areas with clean water.

Hydrogen peroxide:

1. Dampen a cotton swab in a medicine and treat the contamination.
2. After a while, rinse the stain with clean water.

Sparkling water:

1. Treat stains with mineral water without dyes.
2. After processing, after a short period of time, the stain should disappear.

Grass traces

To get good and interesting shots, photographers place the bride and groom in the most unpredictable places. The bride only has to sit on the grass, as spots from it appear. To remove such impurities from white cloth, you should use the following method:

1. Treat contaminated areas of the dress with a sponge dampened in soapy water.
2. Prepare the solution by mixing 1 tablespoon of ammonia in a glass of water.
3. Blot the grass stains with the resulting fluid.
4. Go over the contamination with a soapy sponge.
5. Rinse the product in clean water.
   

Lipstick stains

When congratulating people you love, often lipstick stains of a wide variety of shades remain on your beautiful outfit. Remove such pollution will help baby powder. Pour talcum powder an hour before washing, and the dirt is better washed away.

Ink stains

As a result of inaccurate use of a ballpoint pen during competitions, you can accidentally damage the white fabric of the dress with ink:

1. Sprinkle hairspray on the area of ​​the dress stained with ink and leave for 1 hour.
2. Wash the product in soapy water.
3. Rinse the elegant thing in clear water.

Important! When removing stains on the outfit, do not make special efforts so as not to damage the fabric and not tear it.

After removing all types of pollution, you can proceed to the main stage - wash the wedding dress with rhinestones and lace at home.

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Main wash

When you have already got rid of dust and spots, having done the above procedures, you should do the outfit as a whole and give it a fresh look. You can wash your wedding dress at home either manually or using a washing machine.

Handwash

Many girls doubt whether it is possible to wash a wedding dress in a washing machine, so they choose a more gentle treatment with a proven method. Hand wash can be done in two ways.

Method number 1:

1. First, wet the hem of the dress in soapy water.
2. Leave the product for an hour so that the hem is well saturated with soapy water.
3. Carefully wipe the rim.
4. Type in a bath of water with a temperature of 30-35 degrees.
5. Add a small amount of shampoo to the water.

Important! Do not add detergent when the dress is already in the water. Shampoo will not be able to completely dissolve, as a result, washing will not be effective.

6. Gently immerse the festive dress in soapy water and leave for 20 minutes.
7. With light hand movements, wash the fabric where there were stains.
8. In contaminated areas, go with a sponge.
9. Rinse the dress in clear water at least 3 times.
10. At the end of the wash, hang the dress on your shoulders and rinse it with a shower.

Important! If the dress has rhinestones, then you do not need to rip them off. From such a gentle washing nothing will happen to them.

Method number 2

You can wash a dress that is not heavily decorated by hanging it on a coat hanger above the bathtub. If there are massive stones on the outfit, this method is not suitable - due to the severity of the stripes, the dress may deform and stretch.

It is necessary to act as follows:

1. Place the trempel with the dress over the bathtub.
2. Wet the product with shower water.
3. Treat the fabric with a soapy sponge, paying particular attention to contaminated areas.
4. Wash the soap solution from the dress with the shower. Start watering from top to bottom, continuing the procedure until the bubbles disappear completely.
   

Washing machine

Very often, housewives ask themselves whether it is possible to wash a wedding dress in a washing machine made of organza, polyester, silk or chiffon without prejudice to the product? This option is possible only if the dress does not have a lot of heavy jewelry.

If you decide on just such a step, follow these rules:

1. Before loading a dress that is embroidered with beads, rhinestones or any crystals in the washing machine, it must be carefully examined for damage to the integrity of the threads with which the beads are attached to the fabric. If there are gaps, the threads must be fixed in order to protect from the loss of decor elements. After washing, restore the embroidery, sewing on the empty places what is broken.
2. To protect rhinestones, stones or other jewelry on the decorated areas of the outfit, you can sew a white cloth or gauze. In order to be completely confident in the safety of precious stones, it is better to tear them away.
3. The dress should be completely turned inside out. Thus, rhinestones during washing will not rub on the hem of the dress, forming arrows on it.
4. Use a fabric cover when washing. If you don’t have one, then a white pillowcase is perfect. If using the latter, it should be sewn up.

Important! The cover should not be from the net. Through the holes in the mesh bag, dress decorations can fall out and damage the washing machine.

5. Choose a program for washing delicate fabrics. Water temperature should be 30 degrees. Deactivate the spin function.
6. Use a detergent designed to clean delicate fabrics.
7. If the dress is magnificent, at the end of washing you can add starch to the air conditioning compartment. Having dried, it will look no less presentable than when shopping at the salon. This technique will also greatly facilitate further ironing.

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Drying wedding dress

When the laundry is left behind and the dress has found the desired cleanliness and whiteness, you should address the issue of drying it. There are secrets in this process.It is at this stage that the dress acquires the desired shape and splendor.

• Hang the product on a coat hanger or lay it on a horizontal surface so that all the water is completely glass.

Important! It is not recommended to dry the dress in the sun, near batteries and other heating devices. This can lead to the appearance of ugly yellow spots on the fabric.

• Do not use machine drying. This can provoke deformation of the product.
• Cotton dress should not be dried in limbo. Matter will stretch and change shape. It should be put on terry towels and left until it is completely dry.

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Ironing dresses

Stroking a wedding dress and giving it a neat appearance will be clearly harder than with everyday clothes. The complexity is added by the abundance of quilling, frills and the presence of decor. An ideal option would be to use a steamer. The powerful pressure of the steam can easily smooth out even the smallest elements of the outfit.

If it is not there, then it is quite possible to cope with the help of an iron, simply this process will be more laborious:

• Start ironing by setting the temperature control of the device to the minimum temperature.
• The soleplate should be perfectly cleaned and smooth.
• Make sure the surface of the ironing board is clean. This will help to prevent particles of dirt from sticking to the snow-white fabric during ironing. Cover the board with a white canvas to be completely sure.
• Cover the floor under the ironing board with a clean white cloth so that the dress does not stain the outfit if the dress touches the floor.
• Start ironing with the bodice and sleeves.

Important! If you put the dress in order with a steamer, it is better - on the contrary, start with a skirt and a train, and then go to the smaller details - a corset, sleeves, yoke.

• It is more difficult to iron a skirt. To facilitate this process, the outfit can be hung on the shoulders and ironed all the elements of the skirts in turn.
• A satin dress should be ironed from the inside out.
• Tulle material is easier to iron when wet. If you let it dry, then the creases will not work out.
• Lace on the dress should be ironed through an additional layer of fabric with the function of steaming in the “silk” mode.
• Dresses of tulle and chiffon are also recommended to be steamed by weight, starting with the lower skirts.
• An outfit of velvet or with its elements should be ironed from the inside out, moving the iron only along the canvas.
• The bodice decorated with decor elements is best ironed from the inside.

After all the procedures, the newly-made wife can fold her outfit into a case and hang in a wardrobe.

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If you wash the wedding dress in water with the wrong temperature, or using the spin in the washing machine, you can completely ruin the corset and damage the fabric itself. It will no longer be possible to fix the damage alongside, the dress will have to be disposed of. To avoid such situations, you should adhere to the recommendations given in this article. With the help of them, your wedding dress will regain a beautiful and elegant look.