It will also clean off dust dirt.
Duck down pillows smell after washing.
Remove the pillow from the dryer every 20 minutes to fluff it.
Repeat the process if the smell doesn t go away after the first wash.
Never just wash one pillow.
How to wash feather pillows.
You can tell the pillow is dry when there are no clumps of feathers inside.
The trick rests in properly drying the pillow.
Down and feather pillows fit in any size washing machine and they come out of the wash beautifully.
I do it all the time with mine.
Duck and goose down pillows can be washed without any problem.
Washed a pillow in the washing machine and then tumble dried it and now it stinks and not in a nice way.
The pillow should be dry after three hours.
You can do this if you have two feather pillows put one in one side of the washer and the other on the other side.
Washing will help kill any dust mites and bacteria.
Washing down and feather pillows is easy.
The idea is that you want to balance the load.
You really do not want to put just one feather pillow into your washing machine.
It s one of the benefits of the incredible natural materials we use to fill our down and feather pillows.
Feather pillows may smell a bit even when they re brand new.
How to get rid of bad odor on feather pillows.
The tennis ball will help keep the feathers moving within the case separating them as the pillow tumbles about in the drier.
In fact it reinvigorates them to be as fluffy as when they were new unlike synthetic pillows.
Put it in a tumble drier on a low setting and toss a tennis ball in with it.