I have a lot of sheepskins around my house, and this is my favorite product to wash them. We use them as rugs in the bedroom and bathrooms, and my cat loves to sleep on them. So they get pretty dirty. I have a lot of experience washing them! You can use this stuff in the washing machine, but I do not recommend washing sheepskin rugs in the machine for several reasons. 1: Sheepskins get VERY heavy when wet. You will have to wash several at once or your washer will freak out. Even if you do wash several, they will still get out of balance. 2: You cannot spin them (they're too heavy, plus they should not be squished or wrung when wet anyway), so the washing machine doesn't really even save any time or hassle. 3: I guarantee your sheepskin is much dirtier than it looks. You don't want that nast in your washer. 4: Sheep fur will coat every surface of your machine. You will wipe it out afterwards and think it is clean. Then the next load you wash will come out covered in fur, and you will realize you missed some. 5: The machine doesn't really get them as clean as doing it by hand.
This is what works best for me: Before washing, brush the sheepskin out, remove any significant lint. Spot treat any significant stains (with the Kookaburra wash. Never use conventional detergents or stain removers with sheepskin!) Lay one sheepskin flat in the bath tub, fleece side up. Get it wet with the handheld shower sprayer (cool water). Sprinkle about one ounce of the Kookaburra wash directly on the wet fleece, and lather it up with your hands, like you're shampooing a dog. Don't be terribly rough, but don't be afraid to scrub. It will tangle some, but don't freak out. Just don't make dreads. Use the handheld shower sprayer to rinse the dirt out. Be patient -- sometimes it takes a while. Sprinkle another ounce and lather it up a second time. This time, plug the drain while you spray the fleece, and let it soak. Don't use too much water, or you'll have to use extra product. Just a couple inches of water is plenty. 30 minutes should do it. More or less, is fine too. It's not a science. Agitate the fleece a bit and see if there's still dirt coming out. (If so, rinse it out, and repeat the soak) You do not have to rinse this product out, but I like to make sure my sheepskins are as clean as possible. So I rinse a lot. Once I feel like the sheepskin is totally clean, I sometimes plug the drain, add a bit more product, and instead of lathering with my hands, I just spray it into the fleece with the shower sprayer, let it soak a bit, and then remove the fleece without rinsing. If I'm washing a second fleece, I reuse this water for the first soak of the second fleece. But I generally try to avoid washing multiple sheepskins. (here's why:)
When you remove the sheepskin from the tub, it will weigh about 50lbs. (I am not exaggerating. Go ahead and call the chiropractor. You'll need an adjustment tomorrow, after all the bending, kneeling by the tub, and lifting heavy, wet, saggy weight at arm's length.) DO NOT wring it out, don't put it in the dryer, don't use a hair dryer... (all these things will ruin your sheepskin.) The best you can do is just set it on a drying rack in the tub, and let it drain. Flat is best. If you don't have a rack that will work flat, you can drape the sheepskin over a horizontal bar. Not ideal, but works in a pinch. Just make sure whatever you use can handle the weight, and the gallons of water that will drain off the fleece. Once the water stops POURING off of the fleece, if you want to speed up the drying process, you can stack some towels on the floor and set it on top of them. If you are really in a hurry, you can roll it *gently* in some towels, but be careful not to stretch it too much. If you have an abundance of towels, you can set the sheepskin on a stack of them and keep changing them out when they get soaked... but this is kind of wasteful and ridiculous. I just lay the sheepskin flat on a drying rack, fleece side down (yep, trust me, it dries SO much faster this way), walk away, and leave it alone. It will take at least day or two to dry.
Don't plan on washing a bunch of sheepskins at once. You can do it... I did it ONCE. But my house was full of dripping animal skins for a week, and it smelled like wet sheep.
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I completely restored a rug all while holding a baby in one arm!
Complete restoration. This was so amazing - I honestly didn't think this would work all that well, and it was a total no fuss no busy work restoration.Wow I'm so impressed!!Okay, here's the story- I have some some sheepskin rugs. I love them they are so soft and cozy to step on when you get out of bed in the morning, so much nicer for feet to hit that soft wool rug instead of the cold wood floor. I have had several of these rugs for a few years and we use them different ways. One of them had been used as a chair cushion on a wooden office chair so it had been sat on repeatedly and was completely squished flat. Then after it was flat we used it as a rug in front of our dresser so it was walked on regularly and had gotten somewhat dusty and dirty.It looked grey and matted. - It was not attractive anymore. I had been planing to throw it away! A friend said she used to wash sheepskins in her clothes washer!! I thought she was nuts. You cant hardly wash wool in a clothes washer let alone leather or a shearling.. but then I found Kookaburra wash.It was SUCH AN EASY PROCESS!! ! ! !All I did was put it in my regular old agitator 1990's style clothes washer with an ounce and a half of the Kookaburra wash. Then lay it out to dry. It already was nicely fluffed and much whiter again. It was a nice creamy color and the dingy gray was gone. People recommend brushing them out with a metal brush like you would use to brush a dog. I don't have that kind of brush and didn't want to go buy something - so I took a scrubbing brush that I had in the house for cleaning and brushed it and it looked great. It only took me 3 minutes of brushing. Done and Done.You've got to CHECK OUT the pictures!! . The first is the Kookaburra wash with the nasty rug. The second shows it immediately out of the washing machine (already a world better). The third shows the completely restored rug. The fourth shows what it looked like after 90 seconds of brushing on one side brushed and before I had brushed the other.. (baby stuck feet in here, but you can still see the unbrushed side behind them) It was amazingly easy and I just used a brush with plastic bristles.I can't believe I was going to throw this away- I just had no idea they could even be restored.. let alone that I could do it myself and it would be so easy! This bottle is totally worth it. It takes so little liquid to clean and restore them that this will allow me to wash several rugs many times. SOO much cheaper than replacing the rug.The natural tea tree oil makes it really fresh again and the lanolin protects the leather and fur. Lanolin is literally the natural lamb oil that sheep oil their own wool with, so it makes sense to protect it with the same thing.Tips: The settings I used were:* Warm wash water and Warm rinse - with any wool you don't want to change temperatures through the process.. that is when your wool sweaters etc shrink like crazy. If you wash cold then you need to rinse cold, if you was hot you have to rinse hot. I stuck with warm.* I used low agitation to not tangle the fur, but high spin to get out as much moisture as possible.* I set it to a small cycle because I washed this alone, and then I washed it on "delicate" cycle.* Then I lay it out on a towel to dry and pointed a house fan on it to help it dry faster.* About 3 minutes of brushing with a plastic bristled scrubbing brush and Voila it's beautiful again.The Kookabura wash smelled strong when I put it in the washing machine but it smells fresh and very pleasant now that it is out and dry.I am so unbelievably pleased with this product and the whole process! I would highly recommend giving it a shot.
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After soaking a knitted swatch in the Kookaburra wash, the kitted swatch was soft, the stitches evened out beautifully and the fabric had a nice, but very light, fragrance. I had used this wash before when I received a free sample and loved it so much I bought a larger bottle. I love that it doesn't require rinsing, but does not leave any kind of residue on the fabric aside from a nice fresh fragrance. I use it on yarn made of wool, cashmere, silk, and/or mohair. I don't knit with cotton, so I'm not sure how the cotton comes out with this wash, but I would expect it would have just as nice results as the other yarns I have used it on. My Noro yarns really come to life after soaking in the Kookaburra. The yarn blooms and all the different elements that make up the yarn show beautifully once the garment dries. This wash leaves the knitted fabric with a beautiful drape, takes all the crinkly feel out of the yarn. And the fabric also feels so much softer than prior to soaking and blocking.
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