Nowadays, fur products are made from various materials, from expensive natural rare animal skins to artificial ones that every woman can afford. But no matter how expensive the material is, no one is immune from the fact that it will turn yellow and lose its presentable appearance. Then the question arises: how to remove yellowness from fur?
To clean your fur, you can go to a dry cleaner or do it at home using effective, proven cleaning methods.
How to clean fur?
To easily deal with the problem, use one of the following tools:
- brush for cleaning clothes;
- sponge;
- cotton swabs or disks;
- blue;
- flour;
- petrol;
- liquid ammonia;
- washing powder for delicate washing;
- wheat bran;
- chalk;
- hydrogen peroxide;
- sawdust;
- shampoo for bathing pets;
- semolina;
- potato starch;
- detergent.
Blue
The effect of whiteness is obtained by displacing a yellow tint with blue pigment. To make a working solution for processing furs, just a couple of drops of blue in a bowl of water is enough. Make sure that the solution turns out to be a soft blue shade.
On a note! Fur should not be soaked in excess with the solution, as it may become damaged.
You need to lay the product on a horizontal surface and treat the fur with a spray bottle. Then the fur coat is allowed to dry. The final stage is combing with a brush.
How to clean yellowed fur?
When you see that a fur product, be it a bedspread or a fur coat, has lost its original color, you should not be upset. There are many ways to remove yellow from white fur.
Method 1
The easiest and most harmless cleaning method:
- Take a fur product.
- Wet and lay a clean sheet on a flat surface.
- Carefully lay out the product, nap side down.
- Lightly tap the product, then turn it over and vacuum on low suction.
Method 2
It is possible to return the color of a product using this method:
- Take a fur product.
- Sprinkle the fur with potato starch.
- Add delicate laundry powder to the water.
- Place the resulting liquid in a spray bottle and shake.
- Gently spread this mixture throughout the item.
- Wait until the product dries.
- Take a clothes brush.
- Carefully remove the starch from the fur.
Method 3
If you only care about how to clean the fur from dust, proceed as follows:
- Lay the fur item on a flat surface.
- Sprinkle it with semolina.
- Rub the fur as if washing, but not very intensely.
- Vacuum the product.
Method 4
Using this method, you can refresh a product made from fur skins of animals and pets:
- Take wheat bran or sawdust.
- Heat them in a frying pan.
- Sprinkle them on the fur pile.
- Rub the fur areas thoroughly with them; this can be done with a brush or your hands.
- Shake sawdust off the product.
If necessary, repeat this procedure 2-3 times.
Important! If you choose sawdust for cleaning, do not use sawdust from coniferous trees, otherwise you will ruin the fur.
Method 5
Mink fur can be cleaned as follows:
- Take a mink product.
- Prepare a solution: 3 teaspoons of salt, 1 teaspoon of vodka and water.
- Take a sponge and wet it with the solution.
- Wipe the product.
Causes of yellowing
When purchasing products made from natural fur, you must take into account the fact that over time it will definitely begin to acquire a yellowish tint. This happens because the natural color pigment of the villi fades under the influence of ultraviolet radiation. The same effect happens to people's hair in the summer. Also, the fibers can burn out from the bright light of the lamps. If the finished product has been hanging for a long time in a store with daylight, or at home on a hanger in a brightly lit room, then this process is inevitable.
Boa with yellowed fur
But even if you carefully pack your mink collar coat or white rabbit fur coat and hide it deep in the closet, it will simply prolong its original appearance a little.
How to care for white fur?
If you want to keep your favorite fur item white for a long time, then store it in a linen bag, wrapping the fur in photosensitive paper.
Important! Tobacco leaves, geraniums, and orange peels will help protect your fur from moths.
Method 1
If you don't want white fur to turn yellow, do the following:
- Prepare the fur.
- Take a glass of water.
- Dissolve one teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide and a few drops of ammonia in it.
- Soak a cotton swab in this solution.
- Clean the surface of the product with it.
Important! Yellowish fur can be returned to whiteness with a concentrate; this solution should be applied by spray, but only on the surface of the product, and not on the skin, so as not to damage it.
Method 2
If the white lint has turned grey, you can still fix the problem by following these steps.
- Place the product.
- Take 9% vinegar.
- Dampen a clean cloth in it.
- Wipe the lint with a rag.
- Hang the product for ventilation.
Method 3
Do you just want to remove yellow spots from your white fur? To do this, follow this procedure:
- Take lemon juice and vinegar.
- Wet the yellow spots.
- Take the brush and lightly rub it through the fur.
- Dry the product.
Is it possible to wash a mink coat?
Mink is a very beautiful, elegant, but delicate fur. Therefore, it can only be cleaned using gentle methods. In particular, it is strictly prohibited:
- wash your fur coat in a machine or in a basin with plenty of soaking;
- exert a strong mechanical effect on the pile, rub it with your hands;
- Use a vacuum cleaner to dry clean the product.
You can clean a mink coat using both dry and wet methods. But when using any of them, it is important to ensure that the fur gets wet as little as possible. Contact with water can cause a mink to lose its shine and silky structure, become matted and become covered with additional stains.
Mink coats cannot be washed either in a machine or in a basin, only cleaning is allowed
Important! To prevent the need to clean your fur coat from appearing too often, at the end of each season it is recommended to carry out preventive treatment of the product using dry methods.
How to clean arctic fox fur from yellowness?
Arctic fox fur looks beautiful and is very pleasant to the touch, but, unfortunately, it most often turns yellow. If you are facing this problem and don't know how to remove yellow spots from Arctic fox fur, we recommend using the following methods.
Option 1
- Carefully lay out the fur item.
- The pulp is made from the following components: semolina, crushed chalk, and potato starch are mixed.
- Heat the mixture.
- Apply it to the yellowed areas.
- Rub the area well.
- Shake the mixture out of the lint.
- Take a soft clothes brush and remove any remaining product from the fur.
Option 2
There is another popular, very effective way to clean natural fur:
- Mix hydrogen peroxide with talcum powder.
- Apply the mixture to the surface of the fur.
- Leave the product to dry.
- Shake the pile.
- Go over it with a dry, clean brush.
Option 3
Arctic fox fur can also be cleaned with gasoline and starch, for this:
- Take a sponge.
- Moisten it with gasoline.
- Walk through her fur.
- Wait for the gasoline to evaporate.
- Sprinkle the surface of the pile with potato starch.
- Wait 20 minutes.
- Shake the fur item.
Option 4
In this way it is very easy to clean white fox fur from yellowness:
- Take flour.
- Heat it in a frying pan.
- Apply it to the product.
- Take a brush and remove flour from the product.
Important! Apply the flour quickly until it becomes cold.
Option 5
If you don’t have time to deal with such a difficult task at home, you can turn to dry cleaning. There, specialists will select the required method, and if necessary, they can also dye the fur in the desired tone.
Important! Choose a special dry cleaner for cleaning fur products and do not skimp on its choice, so as not to spoil an expensive item.
Remember
- Test the product on an inconspicuous area. Different fur reacts to exposure differently. After checking the product, wait 12–15 hours, and if nothing happened to the fur, start cleaning.
- Remember the reasons why fur turns yellow . To avoid constant cleaning, do not allow moisture, perfume, dust or cosmetics to come into contact with light-colored fur.
- Follow the rules for storing fur . To prevent it from becoming dull, caked or yellowed, store the fur correctly.
- Choose the right cleaning method. Natural fur cannot be cleaned using methods that are suitable for cleaning artificial fur, and vice versa. For example, artificial fur may shed due to mechanical stress.
The author of the video demonstrates an effective method of bleaching light fur
How to clean faux fur?
Faux fur is a pile material that resembles natural fur. But taking care of him should be completely different. If it's dirty and you want to get it back into shape, use the tips below.
Solution 1
- Take two tablespoons of washing powder.
- Dissolve the powder in 1 liter of warm water 20-30 degrees, mix and beat into foam.
- Hang the product on hangers.
- Take a brush and dip it into the solution.
- Apply the mixture with a brush in the direction of the pile.
- Take a towel.
- Blot the product.
- Hang the fur to dry.
- Comb the fur.
Salt and ammonia
For cleaning, prepare a mixture:
- Alcohol - 1 tsp;
- Salt - 3 tsp;
- Water - 500 g.
The finished mixture is applied with a spray bottle, distributed over the hairs using a clothes brush and left to dry.
Vinegar
How to remove yellowness from fur using vinegar?
- The vinegar solution returns the fur to its original color and shine.
- Take 9% or 6% vinegar, soak a cloth or cotton swab in it, and wipe the yellowed areas.
- To remove the smell of vinegar, the fur coat is hung on the balcony.
