Tips for Your Laundry

Textiles have passed through many hands during production. Therefore, please wash new clothing items that come into direct contact with the skin before dressing your child in them for the first time.

• Close Velcro fasteners (other parts could get caught).
• Closing the zippers ensures their smooth operation later.
• Turn printed, embroidered products inside out before washing! In general, washing inside out protects the Textured and color of the items.
• Wash removable parts separately.
• Turn inner hoods of jackets inside out.
• Wash multi-piece garments together, as color and Textured changes may occur.

• Sort laundry not only by washing temperature but also by colors. This prevents unwanted color transfer!
• Always wash new items with the same colors due to excess dye!
• Always wash dark Clothing Line separately!

We recommend always washing colorful textiles together with Clothing Line in the lightest color.

• The earlier a stain is treated, the easier it is to remove.
• Always treat the stain before washing.
• For delicate, colored fabrics, first test on an inconspicuous area to see if the color holds.
• Removing stains from the inside prevents fabric abrasion.
• Place an absorbent cloth underneath—preferably an undyed one that you change frequently.
• Work from the edge of the stain inward to prevent it from spreading.
• After stain removal, rinse or wash the textile—this does not apply to non-washable textiles.
  When in doubt, have it dry cleaned.
• For synthetic color stains (oil paints, dispersion paints, or ballpoint pen), use only special removers.
• Quick drying of cleaned areas prevents unsightly rings. For example, use a hairdryer.

The most universal stain removers are gall soap, white vinegar, and lemon juice. Nothing more is needed for quick stain treatment!

• Blood: Rinse fresh blood stains immediately with cold water! Soak older stains in warm soapy water or very stubborn ones in salt water.
• Egg yolk, tomato sauce/ketchup, cocoa: Rub with gall soap in cold water and rinse out.
• Chocolate, chewing gum: Place in a plastic bag in the freezer for about 30 minutes, break off and brush out. Treat any residue with gall soap if necessary.
• Butter: warm soapy water is sufficient here.
• Bicycle grease, resin, tar: Rub with butter, scrape off, and treat with gall soap.
• Marker pen: Rub immediately with yogurt. Otherwise, dab with vinegar and rinse well.
• Vegetables, fruit, grass: Pre-treat with vinegar, then rub with gall soap and wash out lukewarm. Repeat if necessary.
• Fruit juice: Sprinkle salt on the damp stain and shake off after drying. Sometimes mineral water helps as well.
• Spinach: Rub with raw potato, then treat with gall soap.
• Wax: Break off and iron out between blotting paper.
• Discolored white laundry: Becomes white again with chlorine. Caution: Toxic!
• Paint, glue: Soak before washing.
• Fat, grass: Spray with pre-wash spray before washing.

• Fill the washing machine completely – protects clothes & the environment!
• Use appropriate detergents for delicate, colored, and white laundry.
• For colored laundry, make sure your detergent contains no bleach or optical brighteners.
• Wash functional fabrics and fleece with special detergent! This preserves properties like waterproofing and breathability longer. Waterproofing protects the outer fabric from moisture.
• Detergent dosage depends on water hardness and the degree of soiling; less is often more!
• Fabric softeners are hardly necessary; they can even cause functional fabrics and fleece to lose their breathable and waterproof properties!
• Do not spin muddy clothing!
• Rinse swimwear thoroughly with tap water after each swim, as chlorine or salt can quickly damage the materials.
• Avoid vigorous rubbing when hand washing!

• Never leave colored laundry damp!
• Shape or shake laundry well before air drying in the wind or after using the dryer.

• Laundry can fade in direct sunlight – better to dry inside out.
• Do not dry swimwear in the sun.
• Turn items with lining occasionally for faster drying.

Laundry with a crossed-out dryer symbol should not be put in the dryer. It could shrink significantly or pill.

• If the dryer symbol is shown, you can dry the clothing in the dryer according to the dryer temperature.
• However, laundry dried this way tends to develop slight pilling faster than laundry dried on a line.
• Never put polyester items in the dryer!

The Polka dots on the iron symbol on the care label indicate the temperature range. If the iron is crossed out, the textile must not be ironed. It could become misshapen, develop shiny spots, wrinkle, etc.