How to Clean a wedding Gown

If your marriage gown fabric and lining are polyester, you should easily be able to clean your own wholesale brides dresses by hand-washing it. Wet cleaning will often clean your gown better than dry-cleaning because dry-cleaning solvents do not remove water based substances including perspiration and most food spills. Perform thorough test of your dress. Check out the dress for any stains. What does the stain consist of?

 Make sure you have the cleaning supplies you will need. Take a good look at the hemline. Should you not increased your skirt, and carried your train everywhere you went on your special day, your train will be dirty. Stunning wedding dress engines are like great, big, dry mops that clean the floors of churches and reception centers! Keep the body of the dress out of the water while following this step. Soak the dirty hem in a clean bathtub using warm, sudsy water for a couple of hours if possible. Next, working your way around the dress, use a toothbrush and the liquid cleaning agent to "massage" the hemline clean. Be careful not to clean too vigorously on lace or trims. Be sure to clean underneath of the hem as well. Check the dress lining/s for dirt as well. Clean the hem of all layers very well.

Rinse the hem thoroughly when you are completed. Turn the dress bodice inside out and aerosol the lining of the bodice area (the part that fits on your upper body) with the soap and water solution. Use the toothbrush and the cleaning agent to clean perspiration stains. Next clean the skirt lining. If your dress has many layers of lining in the skirt, be sure to check out all of them and clean all the stains you find. Check out the not in the dress very carefully and spot clean any stains you might find.

Aerosol the spot with a sudsy aerosol solution first. Use the toothbrush if necessary but be very gentle. Just "massage" the fabric. Add the liquid cleaning agent straight if needed Be particularly careful of laces and trims. If soap and water do not remove the stains, mix up a solution of Oxy Clean? and place the impure area in the solution to soak so that the stain goes away. Do not use chlorine bleach, such as Clorox, as it leaves a film that is very difficult to remove. When you are happy about the cleaning of your dress, fill the bathtub with hot water and place the whole dress carefully in the container. Swish the dress around in the water as soaps from the cleaning process are rinsed out. Allow the water depletion and then fill the container again and repeat the process. Follow this action repeatedly so that the water is very clear without any soap bubbles. We recommend three rinses at least. It is critical to get all soap and cleaning solutions rinsed out of the dress.