How To Take Care Of Silk

Most women have a silk dream.

Anyone who sees a silk dress with soft texture and bright colors will fall in love with it. Nothing can make a woman more noble and elegant than silk.

 

 

What is real silk? In the past, the ancients called it silk, and now we call it real silk. It is a general term for silk. Including mulberry silk, tussah silk, castor silk, cassava silk, etc.

 

 

What are the advantages of real silk?

1. Real silk is called the "Queen of Fibers". Its fibroin contains 18 kinds of amino acids that are beneficial to the human body. It can help the skin maintain the metabolism of the surface lipid membrane, so it can keep the skin moisturized and smooth.

2. As a protein fiber, real silk is a natural fiber that is light, soft and fine in nature. It can easily return to its original state after the external force is removed. It is not stuffy, not gathered, and evenly soft.

3. Real silk is also a porous fiber, so it has good moisture absorption, moisture dissipation and breathability, and has a certain protective effect on the skin.

To make a real silk skirt, the silk needed comes from about 2,000 silk cocoons, so it is not difficult to understand why real silk is so expensive~ and the more excellent the texture of the real silk, the more expensive it is, and the more we need to take care of it.

 

Q1: Can silk clothes be washed with warm water?

No, because silk clothes have poor color fastness and will fade when exposed to temperature. So wash with cold water and try to wash by hand.

 

Q2: Can silk clothes be washed with detergent?

No, because silk is mainly composed of protein, and the detergent contains too much alkali, which will denature the protein and cause wrinkles on the silk fabric. So it is recommended to use silk-specific laundry detergent, shampoo or children's shower gel.

 

 

Q3: Why do you need to acidify after rinsing?

Generally, silk clothes need to be acidified after rinsing. The operation method is to add 5% white vinegar to the water, put the silk clothes in, and soak for 2 minutes. The benefit of acidification is that it has the effect of fixing the color.

 

 

Q4: Why do silk clothes turn yellow easily?

There are two reasons for yellowing

The first reason is that the silk itself turns yellow due to protein denaturation, and there is no way to change this due to protein denaturation;

 

 

The second reason is yellow stains caused by sweat pollution. This is mainly because sweat contains a small amount of protein, urea and other organic substances, which will combine with dust and other organic substances to form some stains that are more difficult to clean.

Q5: How to clean the yellow stains caused by sweat?

For yellow stains caused by sweat, there are the following cleaning methods.

1. Wash with rice water

Rice water is weakly alkaline and can react with the grease in the stains to turn them into other substances that can be soluble in water. First, soak the silk clothes in rice water for about 20 minutes, and then wash them normally.

 

 

2. Lemon juice or white vinegar lemon

This is actually the use of acid-base neutralization reaction. After the neutralization reaction, some residues left on the imprint part can react with the yellow imprint, which can also remove the yellow stain.

Q6: How to iron silk clothes, what are the key points?

Silk clothing has a slightly worse wrinkle resistance than chemical fiber, so there is a saying that "no wrinkles are not real silk". If wrinkles occur, we need to iron the clothes to make them crisp again.

 

 

When ironing, let the clothes dry to 70% and then spray them with clean water evenly. Wait for 3-5 minutes before ironing. The ironing temperature should be controlled below 150℃. The iron should not touch the silk surface directly.

Note that a layer of wet cloth must be covered on it before ironing to prevent the high temperature from making the silk brittle or even burning.

Q7: How to store silk clothes?

1. Silk clothes should be washed first, ironed dry and then stored. For autumn and winter clothes, jackets, and cheongsams that are inconvenient to disassemble and wash, dry cleaning should be used and ironed until they are flat to prevent mildew and moths. After ironing, it can also play a role in sterilization and insecticide.

 

 

2. The boxes and cabinets for storing clothes should be kept clean and sealed as much as possible to prevent dust pollution.

Q8: What should I pay attention to when wearing and maintaining silk clothes?

1. When buying silk clothes, you should pay attention to buying 2-4 cm larger than your original size, so that it is comfortable to wear and not easy to damage the silk protein fiber

 

 

2. Because the silk fiber is relatively fine, it cannot withstand excessive friction. So when wearing silk, do not sleep on mats or rattan chairs, and pay special attention to not doing strenuous exercise, such as riding a bicycle, in order to prevent the fabric from being rubbed violently, resulting in yarn drawing and displacement.

 

 

3. Do not spray deodorant or place mothballs.

Deodorant and mothballs are chemical substances that can easily damage silk and affect the wearing life. Especially white silk, touching these will make the fabric of the clothes yellow.

4. Silk clothing should not be exposed to the sun after washing.

Generally, it should be placed in a cool and ventilated place to dry. Because the ultraviolet rays in the sun can easily make silk fabrics yellow, fade, and age.

Many female friends have complained to me that silk clothing is of poor quality, not durable at all, expensive, and not worth the price at all.

 

 

 

However, they all overlooked one point. Since ancient times, beautiful things have been sad and fragile. For example, silk, you may only know its expensiveness and trouble, but you don't know that each piece is made up of countless silkworm pupae's lives, gorgeous and sad. If you don't treat it with care, how can you expect it to return the tenderness and beauty you want?