Alternatives to dry cleaning

[boogiewoogie]

Hello,

I'm fed up with lugging my stuff to the dry cleaners and am shocked by the what they charge especially when you can't even tell that it's been cleaned either! Does anyone do their own dry cleaning and if so, what do you use to clean things like silk, wooly coats, suits? Or do you know whether they can be handwashed?

Any help appreciated thank you!

bump

i think that most thinsg actually CAN be washed in a washing machine on a very cool handwash cycle, or delicate with a very slow spin and a detergent suitable for wool, or persil non bio liquid which is also suitable for woolens and delicates...

then dry them flat

be prepared to destroy one or 2 items but most things should come out fine

alot of companies put dry clean only on there labels just so you can complain if washing machine ruins them, when quite often they WILL be fine

A few years ago you could buy things to put in the tumble dryer that were dry cleaning sheets

I will see if I can find them

here I wasn't making it up!

it was like this

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