Care for Washable Sheepskin Rugs

Auggie's Sheepskin Leather Goods and Gifts

Cleaning your Sheepskin is a lot like washing your own Hair, and then brushing it into shape.

• Brush up the wool pile with a sheepskin wire brush and shake out the skin as needed or vacuum with attachment only.
•   Use approved non-enzyme cleaner. We recommend using Cloud Nine Sheepskin Shampoo. 
• For stubborn dirt, pre-soak item in sheepskin shampoo for 20 min (Woolite or laundry detergents ARE NOT RECOMMENDED)
• Wash on a gentle cycle with lukewarm water (do not exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit). Then rinse thoroughly.
•  Dry naturally away from heat. Flex skin while drying to soften the leather side, then brush to restore wool pile. Note that skin shrinkage of 8% to 10% may occur and is normal.
  

  Sheepskin is Dry-cleanable (A)(40) with either white spirits or perchlorethylene 

     DO NOT EXPOSE RUGS TO DIRECT SUNLIGHT.

THIS MAY RESULT IN COLOR CHANGE OR FADING

LONG WOOL, BLACK OR DARK COLORED PELTS, ITEMS TRIMMED OR LINED

We DO NOT recommend machine washing pelts that have lined backs, dark colored pelts or items with trim, as color bleeding may occur.

We recommend Dry-cleaning (A)(40) with white spirits or perchlorethylene.

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• Washing Lambskin Rug 
  Baby-care lambskin rugs have been especially selected to ensure that there are no loose fibers that could be swallowed and become a choking hazard for babies or toddlers. The hides are tanned so that they may be fully machine-washed and dried. Longer-fibered sheepskin rugs are not recommended for use with babies and young children.
  
  
  Read more: The Difference Between Sheepskin Rug & Lambskin Rug | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_10064186_difference-between-sheepskin-rug-lambskin-rug.html#ixzz2SIDVAXM9

(PLEASE NOTE THAT WE CANNOT GUARANTEE WASHING OR CLEANING RESULTS WITH ANY SHEEPSKIN PRODUCTS, SINCE MANY FACTORS BEYOND OUR CONTROL MAY AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF CLEANING. SUCH FACTORS ARE; EXPOSURE TO HEAT AND LIGHT, WEAR AND TEAR ON ITEM, AGE AND CONDITION, HARDNESS OR SOFTNESS OF WATER USED, TEMPERATURE OF WATER USED, NATURAL VARIATIONS IN THE PRODUCT)

What is Sheepskin?

Australian Merino Sheep
-the highest quality sheepskin available.

Sheepskin is the hide of a sheep, sometimes also called lambskin. Unlike common leather, sheepskin is tanned with the fleece intact, as in a pelt.^[1]

Sheepskin is used to produce sheepskin leather products and soft wool-lined clothing or coverings, including gloves, hats, footstools, automotive seat covers, baby and invalid rugs and pelts. In particular, sheepskin is the principal material used to make a type of sheepskin boot), footwear traditionally produced in Australia and New Zealand.Sheepskin numnahs, saddle pads, saddle seat covers, sheepskin horse boots, tack linings and girth tubes are also made and used in equestrianism.

The fleece of sheepskin has excellent insulating properties and it is also resistant to flame and static electricity. Wool is considered by the medical profession to be hypoallergenic.

Testing at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology Leather Research Centre confirmed the advantages of medical sheepskin in the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.

Sheepskin is the hide of a mature sheep that has been tanned into leather with the wooly fleece still attached. Shearling is the hide and fleece of a yearling lamb that has been tanned into leather and then had the fleece sheared to a uniform depth.

Read more: Sheepskin Leather Facts | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6509785_sheepskin-leather.html#ixzz2SG0PQAMz


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"New" Blog For Sheepskin Care

Here at Auggie's Sheepskin Leather Goods and Gifts, we are often asked about the care and cleaning of your sheepskin rugs and slippers. On the web site http://www.auggiessheepskin.com/ we have a  section on care and cleaning. We thought we would start a blog and add more information on this subject that would help answer questions and also encourage people to add their experiences to the subject. Please feel free to post any info you may have on this subject!
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