Tips for your laundry

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

• Close the Velcro fasteners (other parts may get caught).
• Closing the zippers ensures that they will work properly later.
• Turn printed, embroidered products inside out before washing! Generally, washing inside out preserves the structure and color of the items.
• Wash removable parts separately.
• Turn inner hoods of jackets inside out.
• Wash multiple pieces of clothing together, as color and texture changes may occur.

• Sort laundry not only by washing temperature, but also by color. This will prevent unwanted discoloration!
• To avoid excess color, always wash new clothes with the same colors!
• Always wash dark clothes separately!

We recommend that you always wash colored textiles together with clothes in the lightest color.

• The sooner a stain is treated, the easier it is to remove.
• Always treat the stain before washing.
• For sensitive, colored fabrics, first test on inconspicuous areas to see if the color adheres.
• Removing it from the inside prevents the fabric from rubbing.
• Place an absorbent fabric underneath – preferably an undyed one that you change frequently.
• Work from the edge of the stain inward to prevent it from getting bigger.
• After removing the stain, rinse or wash the textile - this does not apply to non-washable textiles.
  If in doubt, dry clean.
• For synthetic paint stains (oil paints, emulsion paints or ballpoint pens) only use special removers.
• Quickly drying cleaned areas prevents the formation of unsightly edges. Use a hair dryer, for example.

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

• Blood: Rinse fresh blood stains immediately with cold water! Soak older ones in warm soapy water or particularly stubborn ones in salt water.
• Egg yolk, tomato sauce/ketchup, cocoa: Rub in cold water with gall soap and rinse.
• Chocolate, chewing gum: Place in a plastic bag in the freezer for about 30 minutes, crumble and brush off. If necessary, treat any residue with gall soap.
• Butter: warm soapy water is sufficient here.
• Bicycle grease, resin, tar: rub with butter, scrape off and treat with gall soap.
• Felt-tip pen: Immediately rub with yoghurt. Otherwise dab with vinegar and rinse well.
• Vegetables, fruit, grass: Pre-treat with vinegar, then rub with gall soap and rinse with lukewarm water. Repeat if necessary.
• Fruit juice: Sprinkle salt on the damp stain and shake it out after it has dried. Sometimes mineral water helps too.
• Spinach: Rub with raw potato, then treat with gall soap.
• Wax: Crumble and iron out between blotting paper.
• Discolored white laundry: Use chlorine to make it white again. Warning: toxic!
• Paints, glue: Soak before washing.
• Grease, grass: Spray with pre-wash spray before washing.

• Fill the washing machine completely – protect your laundry and the environment!
• Use appropriate detergents for delicates, colored and white laundry.
• When washing colored laundry, make sure that your detergent does not contain bleach or optical brighteners.
• Wash functional fabrics and fleece with special detergent! This preserves properties such as waterproofness and breathability for longer. Impregnation protects the outer fabric from moisture.
• The dosage of detergent depends on the water hardness and the degree of soiling of the laundry; less is often more!
• Fabric softener is hardly necessary; functional fabrics and fleece even 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 destroy the materials.
• Avoid rubbing too hard when washing by hand!

• Never leave colored laundry lying around while it is damp!
• Pull laundry into shape or shake it out well before wind drying or after tumble drying.

• Laundry can fade in direct sunlight – it is best to dry it inside out.
• Do not let swimwear dry in the sun.
• Turn items with inner lining occasionally to dry faster.

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 clothes in the dryer according to the dryer temperature.
• However, the laundry will pill more quickly than line-dried laundry.
• Never put polyester items in the dryer!

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