Latex care
Latex Garment Care
How to make it shine?
A good shine takes time. The first time you polish your garment it will look shiny but quickly dull as the oxygen in the air interacts with the chemicals. Each time you wear and polish the garment the longer it will keep its shine as the pores in the latex will absorb the polish. While it seems that getting a good shine would be easy, it requires patience, a gentle touch and practice. Be careful to polish but not rub the garment as its possible, over time, to develop weak spots in areas. If you feel heat from friction you should stop and use either more polish or a different technique.
How careful do I have to be with my latex clothing?
Be very cautious with pointy and sharp objects like table edges and your finger nails. This usually does the trick: when you pull up your latex hold your fingers straight and pull & stretch the latex over your skin with your fingertips and never your nails.
Direct sunlight will bleach and damage the clothing. So store it in a dark, dry and cool place.
Jewelry and almost any type of metal, leather, nicotine and the nicotine on your fingers can discolor latex, especially the lighter latex colors. Please don’t use body lotion, deodorant and perfume on your body prior to putting on latex. They probably discolor your latex and the oils and fats they contain will damage the latex.
Only use talc powder, water-based lubricants or silicone oil made especially for use with latex clothing, and never other oils or greases like vaseline. The latter will damage your latex pieces.
Latex soaks up some of your sweat that your skin produces when you wear it. Therefore it is important to clean and groom your latex with silicone oil or talc powder right after wearing.
we recommend hand washing your items.
How to clean?
we recommend hand washing your items.
A good solution for cleaning your latex, is to fill a sink or bath with lukewarm water, with no soap, turn the garment inside out, and swish it around. Then hang it on a plastic hanger right side out and then turn it inside out until it is dry on the inside. It should be stored with unscented baby powder on the inside and polished on the outside with a good latex preservative.
We know sometimes our garments may contact liquids other than water. Be aware some soaps are harsh to latex and will damage or weaken it over time. Anything with chlorine or bleach should be avoided and any such contact will weaken the materials even if quickly rinsed. This includes swimming pool or hot-tub water.
storage
Gently shake off the bigger water drops on the surface.
Hang to dry or put on a laundry rack.
When dry, thoroughly dust a good amount of talc powder on the piece. Applying talc to the dry side helps turning your piece inside out: freshly washed latex can be quite sticky.
Then again hang to dry, and when dry dust with talc. To apply the talc powder evenly we do a little trick: we put the our items in a plastic box with a lid, sprinkle the talc podwer over the latex piece, close the lid and shake the box in all directions.
Items with zippers or textile or lace inserts take longer to dry. Especially the textile strips of zippers need time to try all the way, from our experience at least a day or two of hanging.
Before putting your latex on the next time just squirt a few bursts of silicone oil on your body as well as the insides of your garment and evenly distribute it (carefully shaking and wiggling it usually does the trick). For gloves turn them inside out only half the way so that the fingers are inside the ‘hand’, then add a drop of silicone oil on the inside, rub the glove between your hands, then blow a little air into the glove in order to make the freshly inside-lubed fingers pop out.
How to make it shine?
A good shine takes time. The first time you polish your garment it will look shiny but quickly dull as the oxygen in the air interacts with the chemicals. Each time you wear and polish the garment the longer it will keep its shine as the pores in the latex will absorb the polish. While it seems that getting a good shine would be easy, it requires patience, a gentle touch and practice. Be careful to polish but not rub the garment as its possible, over time, to develop weak spots in areas. If you feel heat from friction you should stop and use either more polish or a different technique.
How careful do I have to be with my latex clothing?
Be very cautious with pointy and sharp objects like table edges and your finger nails. This usually does the trick: when you pull up your latex hold your fingers straight and pull & stretch the latex over your skin with your fingertips and never your nails.
Direct sunlight will bleach and damage the clothing. So store it in a dark, dry and cool place.
Jewelry and almost any type of metal, leather, nicotine and the nicotine on your fingers can discolor latex, especially the lighter latex colors. Please don’t use body lotion, deodorant and perfume on your body prior to putting on latex. They probably discolor your latex and the oils and fats they contain will damage the latex.
Only use talc powder, water-based lubricants or silicone oil made especially for use with latex clothing, and never other oils or greases like vaseline. The latter will damage your latex pieces.
Latex soaks up some of your sweat that your skin produces when you wear it. Therefore it is important to clean and groom your latex with silicone oil or talc powder right after wearing.
we recommend hand washing your items.
How to clean?
we recommend hand washing your items.
A good solution for cleaning your latex, is to fill a sink or bath with lukewarm water, with no soap, turn the garment inside out, and swish it around. Then hang it on a plastic hanger right side out and then turn it inside out until it is dry on the inside. It should be stored with unscented baby powder on the inside and polished on the outside with a good latex preservative.
We know sometimes our garments may contact liquids other than water. Be aware some soaps are harsh to latex and will damage or weaken it over time. Anything with chlorine or bleach should be avoided and any such contact will weaken the materials even if quickly rinsed. This includes swimming pool or hot-tub water.
storage
Gently shake off the bigger water drops on the surface.
Hang to dry or put on a laundry rack.
When dry, thoroughly dust a good amount of talc powder on the piece. Applying talc to the dry side helps turning your piece inside out: freshly washed latex can be quite sticky.
Then again hang to dry, and when dry dust with talc. To apply the talc powder evenly we do a little trick: we put the our items in a plastic box with a lid, sprinkle the talc podwer over the latex piece, close the lid and shake the box in all directions.
Items with zippers or textile or lace inserts take longer to dry. Especially the textile strips of zippers need time to try all the way, from our experience at least a day or two of hanging.
Before putting your latex on the next time just squirt a few bursts of silicone oil on your body as well as the insides of your garment and evenly distribute it (carefully shaking and wiggling it usually does the trick). For gloves turn them inside out only half the way so that the fingers are inside the ‘hand’, then add a drop of silicone oil on the inside, rub the glove between your hands, then blow a little air into the glove in order to make the freshly inside-lubed fingers pop out.