North Face Down Jacket Cleaning in CO2 vs. Dry Cleaning

Dry cleaning or laundering down filled garments tends to always be a problem for a dry cleaner, or for that matter just about anyone.

During dry cleaning or home washing the down (feathers) gets wet and clumps together horribly.

When drying you can put clean tennis balls or sneakers into the dryer to fluff up the feathers. The last time I washed my North Face jacket at home I ended up with a headache after listening to the sneakers bang in the dryer for over an hour.

I have never been a big fan of this as it adds a lot of "wear and tear" during the drying process and some of the feathers always seem to be stuck together somewhere.

Another issue with dry cleaning down garments is that the feathers always seem to retain a dry cleaning smell.

This week I put my North Face down jacket into our CO2 dry cleaning machine, despite the fact that the label reads; Do Not Dry Clean. I wanted to see what the results would be.

My jacket was fairly soiled from stacking wood and other chores that I had done around the house over the weekend. It's also predominantly orange, so stains show easily.

I placed the jacket into our CO2 dry cleaning machine (our ECO2 Cleanse process) and 30 minutes later I was very surprised. My jacket looked brand new. The down was not clumped anywhere. And best of all...every stain was gone.

I took a sniff of my jacket, absolutely no odor.

The only downside was that the jacket was cold from cleaning in CO2, and it seemed slightly counterintuitive to walk outside into the brisk New Yok winter in an insulated cold jacket. so I had one of my finishers steam the jacket out to take the chill out. One of the great things about CO2 dry cleaning is that the process does not use heat to dry.

Final result. CO2 dry cleaning was able to clean my down jacket much better than any other process and in much less time.nike free run

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