Stratermic gives you advice to enable you to keep all the qualities of your garments. First refer to the label inside the garment to know its composition.

Follow the care label instructions first. The advice below concerns the wadding of Stratermic labelled products, which are components that provide warmth.

Washing:  machine wash your synthetic quilted garment at 40°C. The garment must not be squashed, so don't fill in the machine too much. Conditioner is not necessary. Do not place tennis balls in your washing machine, this is only for down garments.
Lastly, only wash your quilted garment when necessary.

Remove the garment from the machine promptly after the cycle finishes. Shake it to redistribute the wadding and keep bulk. Drying in the air, on a coat-hanger or flat. Avoid using clothes pegs, they can distort wadding. Dry cleaning is not recommended.

For wadding sleeping bags, you can follow the same care advice. Try to leave your Stratermic wadding sleeping bag out of its transport cover as much as possible to let it breathe.

Whatever the ratio of feather/down in the stuffing composition, the care advice is the same.

Washing:  synthetic programme, 30°C max, with little detergent. Add 3 tennis balls to the washing machine drum to ventilate the down: the down stuffing will dry better and this will prevent mildew. Detergent tends to remain between feathers and down; rinse the garment at least twice to be sure all the detergent residue is washed away. Do not dry clean.

Drying: tumble-dryer recommended, synthetic programme with 3 tennis balls to ventilate  the down. You can also dry your jacket flat and tap the down to ventilate it. However, you should never place your damp garment on a radiator. If you leave your down jacket squashed up after it's been washed, stains and odours might form.  In this case, wash your jacket again and they will disappear.
Keep your down jacket in a dry place.

This advice is also valid for your Stratermic feather and down sleeping bag. Regularly shake off sleeping bag to fluff up the down.

Washing: Refer to the instructions on the garment care label.

Did you know that if washing temperature is underlined, it means "delicate cycle"? Thus, a wool jumper which is machine-washable at 30°C can be washed at 30°C using the delicate programme. During a delicate cycle, the mechanical action of the washing machine is less violent, which prevents felting.

When you wash a wool or acrylic garment, go for a special wool detergent. Do not overload the washing machine. So as not to spoil your garments, do not wash them with garments with hook & loop straps.

Drying: do not leave your garments in the washing machine too long after they've been washed and dry them flat to avoid distorting them.

Ironing: use a damp cloth to keep your jumper soft longer and to prevent lustring (appearance of marks due to ironing). The damp cloth technique is simple: place the damp cloth (towel or cloth) between the iron and your garment.

Washing: Refer first to the instructions on the care label.

Generally, Stratermic garments made from synthetic materials can be machine washed up to 40°C.

Avoid conditioner: it may stain the garment and conditioner can prevent the wicking of perspiration and water vapour out of the garment and even can remove the water repellent treatment that is applied on some products.
Drying: in a tumble dryer, at low temperature or in the air.

Cleaning: bleach is not recommended, like all chemical products; it may affect the thermal insulation or breathability of Stratermic sports garments. Check the care label symbols to find out if your garment can be dry cleaned.

During a machine wash, garments lose some fibres but fleeces tend to keep those fibres. This can have an impression of pilling after several washes, but in fact they are small fibres that build up in the material. To avoid this, do not overload your washing machine and wash light and dark colours separately.

Ironing: Stratermic fleeces and Softshells are wash and wear, they don't need to be ironed. Moreover, ironing can spoil the qualities of thermal insulation because the iron "crushes" the fabric. Lastly, the heat of the iron might damage synthetic fibres.

This advice can also be applied to cotton-synthetic garments. However, if your garment is partly made from wool, machine wash on the wool cycle.