Margot in White: How to wash your baby's comfort blanket
If there's one little companion that goes through a lot, it's your child's comforter. Sucked, chewed, dragged on the floor or thrown to the ground, it can quickly become a nest for dust mites and microbes. To prevent your baby's inseparable companion from becoming a refuge for bacteria, it is essential to give it a regular cleaning, and this even before offering it to them.
Indeed, although at Margotte tournicote, your comforter is steamed before being packaged, its manufacturing, from the weaving of the fabrics to the embroidery of its face, requires many manipulations, and a small cleaning will eliminate all traces of this journey.
How to machine wash a Margotte tournicote comforter?
The challenge when machine washing is to preserve the comforter's original appearance and softness. A big challenge, but fortunately, a few tips have proven effective.
First of all, know that Margotte tournicote comforters are machine washable at 30°C. For better cleaning, first undo the knots at the ends of the legs. Then, if you choose to wash the comforter with baby clothes, be sure to slip it into a pillowcase or a laundry net to prevent it from getting damaged by rubbing against zippers and other gripping ribbons. Finally, opt for a delicate wash cycle that will limit spinning.
Regarding detergent, we advise you to use a mild detergent without bleaching or brightening agents throughout the comforter's life. Indeed, our comforters are made with OekoTex standard 100 textiles. This means, among other things, that no toxic products were used during their manufacturing, especially during dyeing, thus making the latter more sensitive to washing. You can, of course, use a special baby detergent, or a hypoallergenic detergent for sensitive skin, or why not a homemade natural detergent.
With this in mind, Margotte Tournicote has selected a very simple homemade detergent recipe for you, made with healthy everyday ingredients.
Finally, so that your comforter, and by extension your laundry, retains its colors and softness, we advise you to use white vinegar as a replacement for your industrial fabric softener. A miracle ingredient in household products, it is useful in this case for its primary property: its anti-limescale power. Indeed, it is the limescale in your washing water that, by settling in the textile fibers, makes your laundry rough, dull, and grayish.
Once washing is complete, comes the big question of drying. The stuffing of our comforters' heads is exclusively made of 100% polyester fibers, so it is preferable to let it air dry to prevent clumping. If, despite all the precautions taken beforehand, your comforter has not retained all its softness (doubtless due to a high level of limescale in your water), you can still put it in the dryer for about ten minutes on the synthetic mode at the end of drying.
How often should a comforter be washed?
For its first wash, we recommend doing it even before offering it to your baby.
For the rest, there are no rules; it will depend on the comforter's use and your lifestyle. A comforter that goes to daycare should be washed more often than one that stays at home. As a general rule, it is recommended to wash it at least once a month, and whenever your child is sick to avoid recontamination.
Between washes, you can also steam the comforter with your iron or a steamer. The water heated to 100°C has a disinfecting power that can help freshen it up between two tumbles on the floor.
How to get my child to accept washing their comforter?
Separating a child from their adventure companion, even temporarily, is always a sensitive moment. To avoid tears during the comforter's washing, a few precautions can be taken:
- have a second copy of the comforter to wash one, while the other stays with your child. This option works best if the comforters are rotated from birth. This is why Margotte tournicote offers you the Doudouble operation!
- take advantage of your little one's sleep to wash their comforter and return it to them before they wake up.
- initiate a true little ritual around the comforter's bath, which, like them, needs regular washing.
Don't forget that the comforter's smell is essential for your child. To maximize your chances, always use the same detergent since its first wash. Attached to this family smell since their earliest childhood, your child will thus find a reassuring olfactory landmark.