How to clean feather pillows at home?

At the moment, you can buy pillows with absolutely any filler. But like our mothers, fathers and grandmothers, the choice often falls on feathers. And in this article we will tell you about all the intricacies of caring for feather pillows. Namely:

• what methods exist for cleaning these pillows;
• how to clean feather pillows at home;
• how to wash them in a washing machine.

Let's get started.

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Pillow Cleaning Methods

How to clean a down pillow? Basically, we all love feather pillows because of their long lifespan. But there is one important detail - the feather pillow will serve you as long as possible if you clean it once every six months. You can give the item to dry cleaning, where professionals will take care of it, and here is how they will do it:

• To begin with, all feathers from the pillow will be removed and processed in an organic solvent that will remove dirt, dust, mites, germs and various odors. This, of course, is very good, but there is also the flip side of the coin - this solvent can easily ruin the feathers.
• After the feathers have been processed, they are dried and aired. This can also affect feathers not very well, because they can dry out and become smaller, which means that your pillow will lose its former softness and size. And this is undoubtedly a minus.

Important! You will also find a lot of useful information in the article, how to wash the tulle so that it is snow-white.

How to wash a pillow, there are other ways:

• Dry cleaning down products. This is a simple procedure in which, with the help of a strong stream of air, the feathers are cleaned of dust, dirt, debris, while they still fluff.
• Also, with the help of an ultraviolet lamp, the feathers are cleaned of dust mites.

Then just the feathers are packaged in new cupcakes, as a result of the output we get a very soft and pleasant to the touch product. Cool, right? But for this event we will have to give a good amount of money - how much we will not say, it depends on the place where you do it, everywhere in different ways.

But, if you have a limited budget or you simply do not want to pay for cleaning your pillow, now we will share with you how to clean feather pillows at home ourselves.

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We clean the pillow at home

Yes, if you still decide to clean the pillow with your own hands, then you have chosen, perhaps, the best way to care for such an important household item. Yes, of course, you will have to pat enough, but the result is worth it, believe me.

The washing itself is not difficult, the most difficult is to dry everything, especially since it must be done as well as possible.

Important! It is worth considering that in the composition of such pillows you can find not only feathers but also bird fluff, therefore, cleaning should take place in several stages, between which we will make time intervals.

What kind of feathers are washable?

Initially, you have to find out what feather your old pillow consists of, which you need to wash or completely redo. This can be seen on the product label.

Important! Feathers and down can only be washed with waterfowl! If it consists of chicken feathers, then you can safely dispose of it.

Why so categorical? It's simple: the chicken feather dries very poorly, and subsequently turns into dust. Therefore, chicken feathers and fluff are strictly prohibited to wash.

We erase the whole or extract the contents?

Many people are wondering - is it possible to wash the pillow completely without extracting the contents? It is possible, but there is one “but”: in the course of washing it will become so heavy that it cannot be reached manually, there simply will not be enough strength, and it is forbidden to machine wash.

No, of course, you can wash in a typewriter, but this way you will not achieve the desired effect, but get rid of dirt and dust. And plus, when washing in a typewriter, all the feathers stick together, clump into lumps, which simply cannot be eliminated. Because of this, just a pillow will go to the scrap. But our task is to clean the product, and not get rid of it, right?

As a result, the answer to this question is that it is better to wash it separately. How? Now we will provide you with step-by-step instructions for the restoration of feather pillows with your own hands.

Important! Washing pillows should be carried out in the warm season.

Stages of washing:

1. The first step towards a clean pillow is to create a soap solution. This solution includes:
   • one bar of “Soviet hardening” of household soap, grated on a coarse grater;
   • one teaspoon ammonia;
   • water.

Important! The basin for the solution should be sufficiently voluminous.

2. Next is the most “painful” procedure. We unzip the breastplate. And it doesn’t matter that your grandmother sewed it. Just imagine how much dirt is in it.
3. After you have finished chopping the nappies, take them and place the feathers in small portions in the solution we prepared.

Important! Do not shove everything at once, otherwise - your bath will turn into a chicken coop.

4. Then two to three hours of rest, while the feathers are soaked in water.
5. After we have gained strength, we take our palms and simply rub our feathers between them, rinse them. A rinse, colander or running water can help rinse.
6. Wash the washed feathers in small portions in gauze bags.
7. Closed tightly, and better - wired gauze bags are placed in a washing machine and are put into spin mode, preferably in gentle mode. Of course, you can skip all this, and let them just lie dry, but this is a long time, and you risk that the feathers may just stink.
8. Final drying should be carried out in a well-ventilated place where there is sun. In this case, the bags must be shaken regularly and turned at least three times a day.
9. Well, the last step is to wash the breastplate. After the feathers have dried and the napkin itself dries, we simply place the nibs back and sew the napkin very tightly.

That's all, congratulations, your pillow is perfectly clean, but it has not lost its softness and size, and this is very important.

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We wash the pillow in the washing machine

If you were frightened by such a laborious process, or you simply don’t have much free time, then you can wash the feathers in a typewriter. But for this you need to take into account a couple of very important factors that will protect the washing machine from failure and the pillow from the appearance of lumps:

• The first is the presence of a special cover, without which everything will simply tear and hammer your machine with feathers.
• The second - gauze bags, in which we will put feathers in small portions, should be made incredibly strong. This can be done by simply folding the cheesecloth into four, or even five, and six layers, and sew it very firmly.
• After you have washed the feathers in the gauze bags in an automatic machine, you simply lay them out on a flat surface that is ventilated and onto which the sun falls. But at the same time you will have to very often turn over the bags and make sure that there are no lumps in them, smoothing them.
• After everything dries, we fill the bed and tightly, with thick threads, sew it.

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That's all, a clean pillow and pleasant dreams are provided for you.Of course, you do not deserve other dreams after the work done. Relax fully and with pleasure on your fresh feather pillow.