How to Keep the Inside of a Hoodie Soft
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To keep the inside of your hoodie soft for months to years after you buy it, you must focus on washing it correctly. Wash inside out, in cold water, with like fabric and mild detergent. When you dry it, you must line dry or air dry. Any heart from water or air will degrade the soft material.
This is How to Keep the Inside of a Hoodie Soft: 9 Step Success.
Welcome to our article on how to keep the inside of your hoodie soft for years after your purchase.
Give me a better feeling than a brand new hoodie, I’ll wait…
… waiting…
… still waiting…
That’s correct; there is no better feeling!
Let me share the 9 steps needed to keep that feeling for years and years.
How to Keep the Inside of a Hoodie Soft
After your hoodie is washed and dried, it is important to treat it carefully. These will help keep your hoodie soft, comfy and the perfect shape to wear long-term.
1. Don't Wash After Every Wear
Hoodies are like sweatpants, joggers and jeans. They do not need to be washed every time you wear them. By wearing a t-shirt underneath your hoodie, the sweat and dead skin from your body won’t constantly penetrate your hoodie’s fabric.
Try washing your hoodie after every 15 wears, or once a month.
2. Wash With Similar Items
When you wash your hoodie, wash it with similar pieces of fabric. Wash with sweatpants, joggers (if cotton), T-shirts, sweaters and other hoodies. Do not wash with jeans, polyester or different fabric mixes.
Also, wash it with similar colored clothing garments.
3. Turn Inside Out Before Washing
Turn your hoodie inside out before you put it into the washing machine. Doing this will not only clean the inner fabric of the dead skin and dirt residue trapped in the fabric threads, but it will also stop the outward-facing fabric from being beaten up.
4. Remove stains right away
Removing any dirt, food, drink, or other stains right away will not only save your hoodie from being permanently ‘dirty.’ But properly cleaning the stain will allow the fabric to return to its original form.
If you allow the stain to set in and harden onto the fabric (most likely cotton), it will harden the cotton, and no matter how much you clean it, that piece of cloth will not feel ‘soft’ again.
5. Use the Right Detergent
To find out what the proper detergent is for your hoodie, look at the tag inside of it and follow the instructions they have there. If the garment doesn’t have a specific type of detergent, it is wisest to buy a mild detergent.
6. Don't use Fabric Softener
Fabric softener has its place when washing some clothes; however, one of those places isn’t with your hoodie. Over time the fabric softener will build up a waxy coating (or residue) over your entire hoodie.
7. Wash in Cold Water
Washing your clothes in cold water is always a smart and safe choice for keeping fit and feeling over time. Using hot water in the wash will make the hoodie fabric expand and shrink back once it has cooled down. This expansion and contraction will harden the material over time.
And it is essential not to forget that hot water does shrink clothing.
8. Run the Rinse Cycle 2x
It irks me to promote using more water than needed for the sake of our planet. However, to ensure all soapy detergent is washed out of your hoodie’s fabric, putting it through a second rinse will do the trick.
To counter your wasteful water use, skip the dryer for not just your hoodie but all the loads of laundry you do.
9. Air dry
Air drying your hoodie is the only way you will want to dry your hoodie. It will keep the fabric from breaking down as it expands in the drying machine. But it will also ensure no shrinking will occur in the drying process.
How to Keep the Inside of a Hoodie Soft FAQ
Washing your hoodie inside out would be best because it will protect the fabric from being worn down.
To attempt to soften a hard sweatshirt, you will want to turn it inside out, use a mild detergent, run two rinse cycles, and air dry it.
