How to Wash Pillows

Put bed pillows in the washer, if you have a big washer it will hold two. Don’t pack them in, there needs to be room for the water to flow around them. Use hot water and just a little bit of soap. Too much soap and it won’t all come out in the rinse.

You can’t wash decorative pillows in water, they won’t come out right and it might ruin them. Use spot cleaner, or a home dry-cleaning kit.

Get a zip plastic pillow cover so you won’t have to wash the pillows. It’s more hygenic, and your pillows will last longer. Just put the comfortable pillowcase you sleep on over the plastic cover. You can wipe off the plastic cover with disinfectant once a week when you wash the pillowcase.

Plastic pillow cases make weird noises when you lay on them, I can’t sleep on them. Just run your pillow through the dryer on high for five or ten minutes every two weeks to kill germs. Throw in a dryer sheet to make the pillow smell fresh and clean.

This is going to sound weird, but we had a big sitting-pillow kind of thing that the dog threw up on. It couldn’t go in the washer and it wasn’t really washable anyway, so we took it outside and used a hose on high pressure, then sprayed it with Febreeze and let it air dry. It came out just fine.

My spouse had bled from the outer edge of his ear overnight without being aware of this fact. When I discovered it–it was a dull brown color, but it was blood. I striped the pillow case and zippered pillow protector off and doused the stain at half hour intervals with hydrogine peroxide. It foamed quite a bit each time I did this. At the end I sprayed the CLOREX spray cleaner on the remainder of stain and washed in hot water. The stain came out. The pillow itself also received the same treatment, except I air-dried the pillow. I suppose you could use the dryer with a towel to dry the pillow if needed.