Care and Wash Your Wool Garment

Wool contains keratin, which breaks down odor-causing bacteria, and its naturally water-repellent properties prevent bacteria from developing. If a wool garment starts to smell, it’s usually enough to simply hang it out to air for a while.

Choose the wool cycle on your washing machine

When washing wool in a machine, it’s important to select a dedicated wool cycle. Wool is a natural material with delicate fibers that react to both temperature and mechanical agitation. A wool program is specifically designed to protect the fibers by maintaining a low, even temperature and using very gentle drum movements. This minimizes friction and movement, reducing the risk of felting, shrinkage, or the garment losing its shape.

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Do not use the Delicate cycle

Delicate cycles and similar programs are not adapted for wool. Even if the temperature is low, the drum movements are usually more intense than on a wool cycle. Increased mechanical action causes the wool fibers to interlock more easily, which can lead to felting, shrinkage, and permanent changes to the material. Damage caused by washing on the wrong program cannot be reversed.

Always follow the care label and use the wool cycle when the garment is marked for it. This helps preserve the fit, function, and longevity of your garment.

Hand wash?

It is often gentler to wash wool on a wool cycle in the washing machine than by hand. However, if your machine does not have a dedicated wool program, we recommend hand washing instead.

If you hand wash your wool garment, do not let it soak for too long and never wring it out, as this damages the wool fibers.

Wool fibers “remember” their last wet state. This makes it beneficial to shape the garment while it is wet — gently pull and stretch it into shape before leaving it to dry.

Detergent

We recommend using a detergent specifically designed for wool. When wool is washed with regular detergent, the natural wool fat, lanolin, breaks down, causing the fibers to weaken and dry out.

OrganoTex BioCare Wool & Down Wash

• Gentle detergent for wool and down

• Contains lanolin, wool’s natural fat

• Easily biodegradable and largely bio-based