How to Clean the Sleeping Bag

If you want to have a good sleep outdoors, a comfortable and practical sleeping bag is a necessity. However, whether the sleeping bag is comfortable or not does not only depend on its quality but also relies on how the user cleans, tends and protects it. Therefore, if you want to maximize the service life of the sleeping bag, cleaning it is quite necessary.

The primary step to clean your sleeping bag is to keep it clean as far as possible. The sweat, the body grease and the dirt will weaken the air permeability and cleanliness of the sleeping bag. When you have a rest in the sleeping bag, you should change your dirty clothes with the clean and try wearing the longer underclothes. If you feel it is too hot wearing the long underclothes, you can buy a inner lining of the sleeping bag. By doing so , you can not only keep the sleeping bag tidy and clean, but also keep yourself warm multiply, which is very convenient.

You should dry the sleeping bag in the air after using each time, which is another way of tending and protecting the sleeping bag. Drying the sleeping bag by baking properly can lengthen the service life of the sleeping bag. You should avoid the sleeping bag’s long-time exposure to the sun ray directly because the ultraviolet ray will degenerate the materials of the sleeping bag.

It would be best to clean the sleeping bag once a year. And it is best to clean part of the sleeping bag. You can brush the head, collar and leg parts of the sleeping bag that can get dirty easily by soft brush with diluted detergent.
If you want to clean your sleeping bag at home, I suggest that you should use professional detergent. Put your sleeping bag into the roller washing machine and then adjust to the low speed and wash it with cold water. If you choose to wash your sleeping bag by hand, soak the sleeping bag in warm water and detergent for about 15 minutes and then scrub it softly until the detergent and the soap bubbles have been washed away.

The last step is to fold your sleeping bag and then put it away in a large and air-permeable storage bag and keep it fluffy. Don’t put it into the original compression bag. If it is in the compression bag for a long time, it won’t be so fluffy.

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