Treating Oriental Rugs With Lanolin

Harsh chemicals can damage your rug and they can also hurt you.

Treating oriental rugs with lanolin. The grease is recovered from the scouring process and is refined to produce lanolin a very common ingredient in skin care formulations. Stains are naturally lifted during our full wet wash cleaning system. To use lanolin topical for sore nipples. Safe for all carpet fibers including sensitive dyes.

If a spill is dealt with immediately often it can be easily blotted up before staining occurs. The rug on the left is one of the most expensive persian silk rugs sold. Due to the high cost of silk silk rugs tend to be small and or be made with a combination of silk and wool or silk and cotton. For the most part high pile on new oriental rugs is a modern adaptation to help modern rugs compete in today s marketplace with machine made oriental rugs and machine made broadloom wall to wall carpeting.

You do not need to wash off lanolin topical before breast feeding again. Apply a pea sized amount to the entire nipple area after each feeding. Apply a small amount of lanolin topical to the affected area and rub in gently. Restoration of natural oil lanolin.

For on site or in plant cleaning. Oriental rug shampoo is phosphate free. Wool rugs have a natural lanolin content which protects them from stains. Washing scouring of the wool removes 99 7 of the lanolin and while it is possible to work with wool with varying amounts of lanolin still in it any dying of the fibers requires very clean wool.

Silk rugs are so exquisite and finely made that most owners display them on the wall rather than the floor. Treating cotton foundation to resist fungus dry rot rug softening. In many cases low quality oriental rugs are sold in the same stores as wall to wall carpeting. The finest older persian carpets utilized lanolin rich wool which has amazing stain repellent properties.

Mix 8 oz of product to 1 gallon of water 16 1 and shampoo as usual. Behnam rugs does not recommend chemically treating your rug be it for mothproofing or extermination. Your rug lives with you whether it is on your floor your wall or your stairs. We use an oriental rug shampoo specifically designed to infuse wool rugs with naturally occurring lanolin to protect your rug from staining.

Use a moist clean cloth to blot from the edges toward the center of the spill. In the scouring process the wool fibers are washed at temperatures above 120º f in order to melt the wool grease. Oriental rugs may be rinsed using textile rinse as the final step in cleaning. Moisturizing and reconditioning wool fibers to restore natural lanolin and luster.

Sometimes wool is spun in the grease unwashed which may have occured in the navajo pound blanket period but again this precludes both carding and dying.