How To Clean Hats By Hand

Felt and wool hats can be cleaned the same way.

How to clean hats by hand. Use tape wrapped around your fingers sticky side out and sweep it across the hat to remove pet hair. Place the hat on a clean towel and pat it down until there is no more water dripping. 30 minutes to 1 hour are enough for sweat stains and tough dirt to be dissolved. Roll a wool beanie in a clean towel. As it s filling add a tablespoon of laundry detergent or oxiclean.

Use a clean toothbrush to spot clean any stains. Do not wring or twist your hat as this could ruin your hat s shape or cause unwanted pilling. To be exact wait for 30 minutes when it comes to cotton or synthetic hat and 1 hour for the woolen one. Soak the hat with the mixed water. To clean dirt on this type of hat use a horsehair brush as it is soft enough not to destroy the hat.

A cleaned straw cap. Push down on the towel with your palms to press out the extra moisture and ensure that the towel absorbs it. Cotton beanies may be wrung out while performance fabric hats don t require any such methods. Hand washing is really the best method to retain both the color and shape of the hat. To wash a baseball cap by hand first fill a sink or bucket with warm water.

Air dry the hat. A wool hat can if so indicated by the instructions washed by hand or in the washing machine and then dried on a flat surface. Add 1 tablespoon 15 ml of laundry detergent or dish soap then dip your hat in the water. Use unused portions of the cloth to wash individual sweat stains. Make sure the brush is of similar color as it might get transferred on the hat.

Submerge the hat into the soap and soak it there for a while. Hold the hat in between your hands and gently squeeze your hands together. Clean the hat s sweatband in the same way. Scrub the stains with the soft brush. Place the hat on a clean towel and continue patting it until there is no longer any water dripping out of it.