Cleaning a fur coat at home and a video on how to clean a mink, muton, astrakhan and zigey coat

A little patience and simple, time-tested tools will allow you to clean your fur coat at home the way professionals do it. Below are some tips.

How to clean a mink and astrakhan fur coat at home

What should not be done categorically with any fur product? Trying to get rid of stains and refresh the overall look, you should immediately forget about any detergents, even the most gentle ones.

The main "accumulator" of pollution for fur is street dust, which literally attracts grease, soot, street dirt like a magnet. Cleaning a fur coat at home from dust is best entrusted to an ordinary brush with stiff and elastic bristles. Perfect, by the way, those that are sold in pet stores.

Before cleaning a mink coat at home, get rid of dust as thoroughly as possible. Shake the coat and carefully straighten it on the hanger, and then brush over the entire surface from the collar to the hem. Pay special attention to the inside of the collar, the sleeves (at the crook of the elbow and cuffs), the pockets and fastening area, and the hem. Carefully comb the fur in these areas – they are most often wrinkled and prone to dusting.

A universal remedy for cleaning most dirt and refreshing the appearance is a solution of hydrogen peroxide (1 tablespoon in a glass of cool water). Carefully follow the proportion, a strong concentration can damage the skin of the fur. You will also need cotton pads or any soft cloth and water at room temperature. Soak the disk in the solution and wipe the fur.

Remove the remaining solution with a damp cloth and let the fur dry at room temperature. It is necessary to process voluminous, and even longer fur products in this way in parts so that the solution does not dry on the surface. And in no case do not wet the fur too much.

After the fur coat dries, it must be combed again. An excellent tool for cleaning a mink coat, and especially heavily polluted areas, is ordinary semolina, wheat and rye bran or starch. They act as an adsorbent, absorbing dirt and even grease. It is enough to sprinkle them on the contaminated, but dust-free area, and carefully rub the fur between the fingers, and then comb the fur with a brush, removing the remnants.

Also, with the help of semolina or starch, as well as bread crumb, you can get rid of obvious spots of street dirt. To do this, carefully, but without effort, rub the stains.

Karakul, despite its complex pattern, is similar in structure to a mink, and you can clean an astrakhan fur coat at home just like a mink coat using the technology described above. In this case, you can use gasoline to remove especially difficult stains – it can easily clean greasy stains or a solution of ammonia. The fur will perfectly endure such a test. The solution is prepared in the ratio of one tablespoon per glass of warm water. They, as well as a solution of hydrogen peroxide, need to treat contaminated places, and in order to get rid of the smell, the fur coat must be thoroughly ventilated, preferably in frosty weather.

How to clean a mouton and zigey coat at home

Mouton (or tsigeyka) is the most durable and unpretentious fur in care, but its dense and thick pile requires its own approach. To clean a muton fur coat at home, like any other, it needs to be rid of dust and street dirt stains. More complex stains will perfectly remove ammonia solution

In this case, you can clean the zigey fur coat at home as efficiently as possible with the help of improvised means. You will need starch and a solution of washing powder for wool in a spray bottle. Pour starch on the contaminated area and treat it with a solution of washing powder – you should get a homogeneous slurry. It must be carefully rubbed into the fur, wait for the mixture to dry and carefully comb it out with a stiff brush. To clean the fur coat from a muton at home as best as possible, repeat the procedure for the fur on the sleeves, collar and in the area of ​​​​the closure and pockets.

For a detailed master class "how to clean a fur coat at home", see this video:

How to clean a white fur coat and its lining at home

Light, and even more so, white fur requires especially careful care. Unfortunately, even during the season, light fur can lose its original shade. How to clean a white fur coat at home? Not only the snow-white shade, but also the gloss and shine of the fur can be restored with the help of simple means. First of all, due to bleaching, for which it is worth pre-preparing a fur coat.

To begin with, thoroughly shake and clean from dust. How complex spots are removed is described above, but how to return the snow-white color? With the help of the same hydrogen peroxide.

The fur must be simply bleached – using a solution. And this means that it is necessary to process the entire surface with a cotton swab or napkin. Rinse off, and even more so actively wet the fur is absolutely not worth it.

Just like a white one at home, you can clean a light fur coat. To remove “difficult" stains from grease or reagents, you first need to try to remove them with a bread crumb, like an eraser. Does not help? Take a bottle of rare "fuel" for Zippo – this is an excellent tool for removing any stains of unknown origin.

The method of restoring any light-coloured fur coat to its original state is simple and works well on both simple sheepskin and elite furs. Remove external contaminants, lighten and clean out particularly difficult stains. And then you need to let it dry in comfortable conditions and comb the pile.

And how to clean the lining of a fur coat at home? The easiest and at the same time difficult way is to cut it off, wash it and sew it on again. But it is easy to get rid of stains and wear on the lining, given that it is sewn from artificial materials. Lay a thick fabric between the fur and the lining and any stains or dirt can be removed using ordinary household products.