Tips for your laundry

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

• Close hook-and-loop fasteners (other parts might catch).
• Closing zippers ensures their smooth operation later.
• Turn printed and embroidered items inside out before washing! Washing inside out generally protects the texture and color of the pieces.
• Wash removable parts separately.
• Turn inner hoods of jackets outward.
• Wash multi-piece garments together, as color and texture changes may occur.

• Sort laundry not only by washing temperature but also by colors. This prevents unwanted discoloration!
• 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 sooner a stain is treated, the easier it is to remove.
• Always treat the stain before washing.
• For delicate, colored fabrics, first test in an inconspicuous area to see if the color holds.
• Removing from the inside prevents rubbing of the fabric.
• Place an absorbent cloth underneath – preferably an undyed one that you change often.
• 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 the formation of unsightly edges. 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 in gall soap with cold water and rinse out.
• Chocolate, chewing gum: Place in a plastic bag in the freezer for about 30 minutes, crumble off and brush out. Treat any residue again with gall soap if needed.
• Butter: warm soapy water is sufficient here.
• Bicycle grease, resin, tar: Rub in butter, scrape off and treat with gall soap.
• Felt-tip pen: Rub in yogurt immediately. Otherwise, dab with vinegar and rinse well.
• Vegetables, fruit, grass: Pre-treat with vinegar, then rub in gall soap and wash out lukewarm. Repeat if necessary.
• Fruit juice: Sprinkle salt on the damp stain and shake out after drying. Sometimes mineral water helps as well.
• Spinach: Rub with raw potato, treat again with gall soap.
• Wax: Crumble off and iron out between blotting paper.
• Discolored white laundry: Becomes white again with bleach. Caution: poisonous!
• Paints, glue: Soak before washing.
• Grease, grass: Spray with pre-wash spray before washing.

• Fill the washing machine completely – protects clothes and nature!
• Use suitable detergents for delicate, colored, and white laundry.
• For colored laundry, be sure your detergent contains no bleach or optical brighteners.
• Wash functional fabrics and fleece with special detergent! This preserves properties like water resistance and breathability longer. Waterproofing protects the outer fabric from moisture.
• The amount of detergent depends on water hardness and how dirty the laundry is; less is often more!
• Fabric softeners are hardly needed; functional fabrics and fleece even lose breathable and waterproof qualities because of them!
• Do not spin muddy clothing!
• Rinse swimwear thoroughly with tap water after every swim, as chlorine or salt can quickly damage the materials.
• Avoid rubbing too hard when hand washing!

• Do not leave colored laundry damp under any circumstances!
• Shape or shake laundry well before air drying in the wind or after using the clothes dryer.

• Clothes can fade in strong sunlight – better to dry them inside out.
• Do not let swimwear dry in the sun.
• Turn items with linings inside out occasionally for faster drying.

Laundry with a crossed-out dryer symbol should not go into the dryer. It could shrink significantly or develop fuzz balls.

• If the dryer symbol is shown, you can dry the Clothing Line in the dryer according to the dryer temperature.
• However, laundry dried this way tends to develop slight fuzz balls 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 fabric must not be ironed. It could become misshapen, develop shiny spots, wrinkle, and so on.