 Welcome to a new Fixing Fashion video! So in this video we're going to show you how to take care of your clothes, so you can keep them longer. For instance by having the right washing settings or knowing how to store your clothes properly or making your own detergents. Kind of everything that helps you to keep your clothes longer, so you don't have to throw them away. So let's say you have a stain in your clothes, for instance from ink. But I don't know how to take care of this, but Alicia knows. Hi, I'm Alicia and I'm going to show you how to remove this stain. And we can imagine there are many stain removers out there, but often the stain removers are quite chemical. And the cool thing is that we made a list of nine ingredients that you can remove every common stain with and they're even natural. So let me show you the nine. In that list we have green soap or this was soap, lemon, vinegar, toothpaste, table salt, baking soda, hydrogen peroxide which you can find in the pharmacy and pal soap or oxco soap. So this stain is for instance ink and for that we need to leave it with toothpaste for a few minutes and then wash it off with vinegar and baking soda. Then for instance if you have a rust stain you can easily remove it in some lemon water and hot water and then rub it out. Then you might have a coffee party and this you can easily remove with some vinegar and some green soap or dishwash soap and then leave it in till it's out. So these were just a few examples on how to treat your stains. In the academy we made a good chart of the most common stains on how to treat them with these products and how to use them. So let us know how it went for you. Next up prepare washing. So washing is a quite an estimated task and as we're all clothing owners it's good to know how to take care of your clothes. If you change this over time in your washing routine can change a lot in the quality of your clothes. But before you do that we need to know a little bit of the details so let me show you. So first of all the washing labels you might have seen them before you can mainly find them next to the brand or most of the time in your sightseams. So the washing label tells me from what material it's made from and how to wash it and that's been told in five main icons. So for instance here I can see that the tumble dryer has two dots which means that I can use the tumble dryer on an average temperature. All these details and all these icons you can find in the academy match them up with your washing label and find out what your washing settings are. But there are a few types of clothing where you need to be extra careful with so let me show you those. So first of all something that needs extra care and that's our woolen sweaters. Whether it's mohair, cashmere or wool they all don't absorb that much smell. So if it's really smelly just hang them outside and give it a little fresh air. If you do want to wash them do it with a cold hand wash and not with a hot temperature as they shrink a lot. For instance here with this sweater we did it in a washing machine with a hot temperature and a trunk and it even felt it together. And then silk plouses. As they tend to lose their color a lot as with hotter temperatures they become a bit yellowish which is their original color. A good wash is to do it with a cold hand wash and then fluffy sweaters. As with wearing them a lot they get these fluffy balls on them like here. And these are created by friction and these are speeded up in the washing machine or in the dryer and you can easily remove them with an old razor or if you need to do a lot with a machine. So take some time but you will be surprised how it goes from worn out to new. And then leather jackets. You don't need to wash them you only need to maintain them with some leather grease. You have them in collared ones or just normal ones. You can use an old cloth or an old worn out garment as your grease cloth and you maintain it with circle motions on top of the leather. Then suede is also leather but a different layer of the skin. And don't maintain them with grease as they only become dirtier. You just need a sweat brush and brush the dirt off. And then look snow again. Then jeans. Jeans are made from a durable denim and they adapt to your body shape but if you wash them a lot they tend to lose that fit. So the real jeans lovers don't wash them at all or instead of washing they put them in the freezer for two days. But we can imagine that's a bit too hardcore so we will advise at least if you wash them don't put it higher than 30 degrees. So now we know a bit more about our garments now it's time for some color sorting. So now we have three piles in front of us black white and colors and we don't want to mix them up as the white really absorbs the colors or the blacks and you don't want to mix up the colors and the blacks together as they really get lose their vibrant colors or they become a bit grayish. So now we know how to separate our clothes. Next up washing the detergents. In this chapter we're going to talk about the world of detergents. As there as you can see there are many out there. So you have powder, liquid, taps, nuts and cloths. Some are more natural like the nuts some are better packaged and non-plastic packaged as the powder and some are just easier to use like liquids. And in this section you have them in wool, sportswear, black, colored and white. They all take ultimate care for your washing but we can imagine that for an average person it's kind of a lot to have all these detergents at home. So we can give you one quick tip. At least don't use the white detergent for your colored and black wash as it contains bleach or chloride and that might ruin your color wash and black wash. So don't do that. If we look at the ingredients of the packages we see that's quite often contains chemical ingredients. So now we're going to make our own detergents as we have the power then to know what's inside and to make it as natural as we want. So let's make the soap. For the soap I need a vegetable soap, a grater and a pot full of water. So I choose a vegetable soap that is made from olive oil and it is purely natural and doesn't contain any palm oil so I don't harm any orangutans. It is 300 grams and I can make around 18 liters of washing detergent with this which is quite a lot. So first of all I'm going to grate it and now you can pour in your soap in boiling water and let it boil for an hour. Now you can wait. So now this is done. I can turn it off and leave it overnight. Hopelijk heb je lekker geslapen. Now we can bottle it up. So now we have a washing detergent and this is really good for a general wash but if you want to go more specific you can add baking soda to it for a white wash as this is used as a natural bleacher or you can add vinegar for your black wash as this keeps the color vibrant. Now as we're added let's talk about fabric softeners as they do make your fabric really smell nice and make it soft but they do contain quite some chemicals. So a good alternative and that's natural is vinegar. Only we don't like to smell of vinegar so we can add some essential oils to it or what we did is adding some orange pills to it. So you can find the recipes and all the information in the academy. So now we have all the detergents ready which brings us to the next chapter washing. So before we start washing a quick checklist first of all reduce washing you don't need to wash your clothes after everywhere and the more you wash it the more it decreases the quality. First empty the pockets as you don't want any paper piled from the to-do list or any sharp materials from your keys for instance to rip the pockets or any other clothes in your laundry. Then zippers and buttons as you want to close the zippers as they might get caught in fabrics and buttons you want to open them as they might rip off from your garment. And now you can put it in the washing machine and then washing the detergents. As on your washing detergent drawer section you have also icons. This is for your prewash as you can use for instance baking soda or any other stain removers for this. Here you can put your powder washing detergent in. The flour is mainly for the fabric softness for instance with us you can put your vinegar in there and this section is for the liquid washing detergents. Not every washing machine has this one so then it's better to use a bulb for the liquid washing detergent and put it on top of your laundry. And then you're ready for washing. Next up drying. So even with drying and ironing there's a few things to consider as you can still ruin the fabric if you don't pay too much attention. So your default approach should be line drying outside as the UV lights from the sun kills the bacteria on the fabric and makes it more cleaner. The outside air does also give it a nice smell. So you leave your small innits like t-shirts or your woven like jeans or a shirt on the clothing hanger or on the line and junk your knits kind of deforms a lot when it's wet so don't put them on the line but leave them flat to dry for instance on the clothing rack. So then what about the drying machine as it does come out nice and soft but it has a few downsides as it costs a lot of energy and the friction and the heat might ruin the fabric or even shrink it. So our advice will be hang it outside or only use it when you really need to. So even with ironing there's a few things to consider as first of all you need to read the washing labels if you can iron it or not and on what temperature and if you iron make sure it's on the right temperature settings as you might burn or melt down the fabric. So that was everything about drying. Next up storage. So properly storing your clothes can help out a lot on the lifetime of your garment. The ultimate wardrobe you want it to be UV light free and dust free. As UV light tends to wear out the fibers a lot but also fades out the colors a lot. So that if you don't have a clothes wardrobe but an open wardrobe then we recommend to put for instance wear that you don't often wear or seasonal wear to put them in the clothing rack or for instance a box and with this we like to lay woolen sweaters in flat. So this box also stops moths from getting in. For the rest of your clothes you can use for instance the regular mud balls but they kind of smell like a public toilet. So we recommend to use the cedar wood balls and you can leave these on the shelves or you can use the cedar wood rings and these you can put over your clothing hanger and then your ultimate wardrobe is ready. Okay that was it. Hopefully you find it useful. I think it's knowledge for life as it extends the lifetime of your garment. If you want more information go to our academy and if you have any questions go to discord. Now you know how to take care of your clothes but accidents can still happen which brings us to the next videos repair and upgrade. Thanks for watching this one and hope to see you in the next video.