How to recover a down jacket. Can retrieve a down jacket and leave it as new, it is not something too difficult. It really just depends on dedication and time, as well as patience. First, it is best to take it to the dry cleaner, but usually the store is too far or too expensive, so it is best to wash the down at home. And it's like new!
If you follow the following instructions exactly, which are made up of three cleaning phases, then you will have a down jacket in perfect condition, almost packed.
Stage 1
The down jacket can be washed in a washing machine that has a program for synthetic clothing at a temperature of 30ºC. You can use the detergent you prefer and, if you want it to be in perfect condition, you can wash it with any other garment. And if you want to ventilate the down even more while washing, add two tennis balls, absolutely clean (preferably new), in the washing machine.
If the down is very dirty, rinse the water twice.
Stage 2
Once you are done with the wash, you must remove the down from the washing machine and that is when it will scare you to think that the down has disappeared, but the truth is that it is not like that and that is when you should keep calm. The down has only been kept squashed by all the weight of the water.. Once drying begins, will return to its normal form.
Do not despair!
Stage 3
This is the most important and decisive moment to be able to recover the down. Better to dry in a dryer that has a program for synthetic clothes, since this way it is safer to put the feathers in their place and regain their original quilted appearance.
You can put the tennis balls back in the dryer so that the down can move more freely. The ideal is to carry out more than two drying cycles. so that the pen is absolutely dry and loose. To check what it should be like, You must detail that the cells of the down recover their natural padding and that when you squeeze them they settle in place.
If you don't have a dryer, you can well dry it in the open air for at least four days. Occasionally, whip the down well so that the feathers do not get stuck or in the form of balls that you can never undo.
The most important thing is that it is absolutely dry!! And if you can't make the smell disappear or the cells remain in their original state, you can wash again or opt for the dry cleaner.
Luck!
