Le Blanc® Green Meadows Downwash® – Luxury Laundry Cleanser for Down-Filled Bedding and Apparel- 64 oz. (1 pack)

We have a bit of down in our family. Six down jackets and four down sleeping bags means we can go through some down wash. While we don't wash the equipment too frequently. The little bottles of Nikwax were becoming a bit too costly for us, so I did some research and found this. It does just as well as the name brand and is cheaper and comes in bigger volumes. Done and done.

Our dear cat urinated right in the middle of my expensive, dry clean only, down comforter. I used a product specially made for pet urine to attempt to clean that mess up. Then moved on to getting my hubby's yellow sweat stains out of the comforter. (I had been agonizing about what to do regarding those sweat stains until the cat made up my mind for me. I figured the comforter was ruined so what the heck, might as well experiment.) I used a mixture of Oxiclean and water on some of the stains, and baking soda and vinegar on other places. The stains stayed exactly as they were. Feeling discouraged, I just let the whole mess sit overnight then took it to the laundromat the next day to clean in a big front loading washer. I used the Le Blanc Down Wash with a vinegar rinse and wouldn't you know ALL THE YELLOW STAINS AND CAT URINE were GONE! I dried the comforter using a couple of down rings and a tennis ball to fluff it up and it's as good as new. Left a really pleasant faint smell of freshness in the comforter. In case you are interested, not one feather leaked from that comforter through this whole ordeal. It's a batiste fabric covered, 800 fill light weight comforter which sells at Bloomie's for $800 (king). Wait until it goes on sell for half price to buy one.

I washed a large 800 fill queen down comforter as well as 8 down pillows with this wash and everything came out lovely. It does get very sudsy but I always run my down items thru an extra rinse cycle and with that no suds were left. The smell is pretty good and leaves no lingering aroma on the items after washing. Washing dry clean only down comforters is completely doable if you’re willing to spend a lot of time at the laundromat. Find one with giant washers and dryers, wash cold, extra rinse and high spin. Dry low with 6 wool balls. Take out and fluff often to disperse heat and break up down clusters. It will take many many drying cycles even with wool balls but it’s worth it. I don’t trust anyone else to clean my expensive down comforter. Plus dry cleaning chemicals are just awful.

We washed 7 down pillows 5 large to small, three large down quilts plus two 0 degree sleeping bags.They all came out bright and clean and puffy just the way you want down to be. Even though I have a tendency to over use the amount of the product and I did use hotter water than what they recommended but for the money it's a great product and it does the job. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than buying the little bottles of (you know what brand ) that you' used to wash a down coat you be the judge I recommended it

Our cat accidentally got locked in our trailer. She was super lucky as she almost died and it was just chance that we found her. Anyway, she made quite a mess on $500 worth of L.L. Bean down sleeping bags. We've had the bags for 14 years and we really couldn't afford to replace them with as nice of bags....but we couldn't get the cat smell out. This down wash got them smelling pretty good! I can't wait to try it out in our comforter.

laundered bed after washing in this Down Wash. I wash my down blanket, down comforters, down pillows, and my sheets with it. I only use 1 to 2 tiny capfuls as I have an LG front load and you really use just a tiny bit per load. This big jug will last me for a really long, long time.

Excellent

Very good product great smell washing perfectly