Knitted toys:

Dear customers. We would like to draw your attention to one important thing. Before you are going to give your child a toy, which finally will appear in the child's mouth, first of all you should wash it.

As our toys are made from natural yarns, during washing they can easily shrink, hence could slightly deform after drying.

To avoid this, please follow our recommendations for care:

• 1. Use hand washing at water temperature 30°C.
• 2. Use careful washing detergent, such as shampoo for washing delicate fabrics or wool. Also better would be to use children series washing detergents as they are significantly safer to your child's health!
• 3. After rinsed the toy, gently squeeze and smooth it out, slightly stretch knitted fabric in the length (in case it become a little shrink).
• 4. Dry the toy outdoors or put it on a warm (not hot, to 40°C!) battery for faster drying.

Now the gift-toy is ready for use!

Soft toys:

Children like a lot to play with their favorite toy almost all the time. But parents should remember that on doctor's mind, soft toys have to be washed once in 1-2 weeks. First, carefully learn recommendations for the care drown on the label.

• 1. To get rid of dust bugs which are everywhere and provoke allergy you can easily by washing the toy in soft water and using soft soap or soap powder (also better in washing machine). For more effective result you can put the toy into the freezing camera for 2 days. At -10° dust bugs perish.
• 2. Also dirtiness can be brushed by a wet brush (with soapsuds). But chemical cleaning is not recommended.
• 3. If you see the toy loses colour while washing, it means the paint has bad quality and can contain harmful stuff. So would be better do not give that toy to your child.
• 4. If the child became ill with infectious disease, soft toys should be taken out the room and washed or worked up with special germicide lamp.
• 5. To make the care about soft toys easier, do not buy them too much, don’t take them outdoors and don’t keep all them together in the bedroom.

By Iryna Shynkarova's article for "SM Number one", source: http://pressa.irk.ru

Detailed about soft toys cleaning

With soap and bast wisps

You need: Clean bast wisp or a piece of soft fabric and something for careful cleaning or shampoo.

Your actions: Dissolve a cleaner in warm water and beat it up until soap bubbles appear. Moisten sponge in soapy water and gently clean soft toys, trying to make it not absorbed with too much liquid. To wash away dirt, rinse the sponge as often as possible. Then dry the toy on batteries. Typically, it takes one day.

Dry cleaning

You need: a large plastic bag (package), food soda (about half of a glass for 2-3 medium-sized toys) and soft brush.

Your actions: Put the toy into the package (better to clean 2-3 average toys at once), put there some soda. Close the package and shake it quite strongly within a minute. After that, take out toys and clean them with a soft brush to remove soda with mud. For large toys you can also use a vacuum cleaner.

In the washing machine

If it is noted on the label that the toy can be washed in the machine, run the delicate cycle of washing. Typically the hardest thing is to persuade the child to give you his or her favorite toy even for a while. But you can make a real adventure from washing the toy. Tell your baby "Our cute bear is going to ride in the washing machine! It will have a great fun!" If the child still doesn’t want to leave a toy, you can always wash it in the night or when your baby is in kinder garden or has a walk with grandma or grandpa.

Source: http://www.goodhouse.ru

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