Care instructions

All Arctic Edge clothing items are made from completely natural products. Mostly pure merino wool, possum fur and silk.

A little care is required when washing the garments, but nothing complicated.

Hand wash of course is a possibility. But machine wash also works great ! What you need to do is to turn the garment inside out, and select wool/delicate wash. Then make sure you select cold wash (so, cold water). Use a soft/delicate/wool detergent but nothing aggressive otherwise you will damage the wool. Really important that the water is as cold as possible in the machine, otherwise do hand wash and then spin it in the machine later. Some machines say “30C” but actually are not calibrated and will wash at a much higher temperature, which will boil and damage the garment.

It is actually quite important to spin the garment to remove most of the water. Normal spin, like 1000 rpm is fine. If you have washed the garment by hand, then place in a towel and then twist it a bit to remove the excess water or chuck into a machine and select spin. If the garment is soaking wet when drying, then it will tend to stretch and sag hence why the water must be removed

Lay flat to fully dry. Alternatively, place the near-dry garment in a preheated tumble dryer at low heat for a few minutes (5 minutes, and then another 5 minutes as required). This can be helpful especially if the garment has stretched over time since this is an almost entirely natural product (some garments have a thread of elastic, otherwise the wool mix is all natural). Take it out after 5 minutes, see how it looks, and then put it back in as required. You will see it shrink back to its original shape as the wool fibres go back to their original shape.

If the garment is very wet when putting into the tumble dryer, then you will basically boil it, and eventually felt it, and fully shrink it. Avoid putting wet garments into the tumble dryer. Only lightly moist garments which have already been spun and have little moisture left inside of them. By tumble drying, the garment gets even softer!