Freshening up a Barbour wax jacket...
Discussion
Right, I've looked all over the internet, and I get that you can't machine wash one, or use detergent, and that the only RECOMMENDED course of action is cold water.
But this is PH, full of life hacks and clever ideas...someone must have come up with a good way of freshening up a Barbour. I know that they always have that waxy smell, which isn't unpleasant, but I'd really like to be able to freshen up the lining a bit so it doesn't smell as waxy as the outer. It's certainly not mouldy or unpleasant, but it would be good if it was a tad fresher.
Febreeze has been mentioned, but this seems to me like the equivalent of spraying some Glade around after a vindaloo event rather than actually opening the bog window for 10 minutes.
I'm very tempted to try some car upholstery cleaner...perhaps cleverly hang the jacket so that the lining is pulled away from the outer, and so if it does soak through, it would have to go uphill/against gravity and across an air gap to make it to the outer.
Anyone got any tips?
But this is PH, full of life hacks and clever ideas...someone must have come up with a good way of freshening up a Barbour. I know that they always have that waxy smell, which isn't unpleasant, but I'd really like to be able to freshen up the lining a bit so it doesn't smell as waxy as the outer. It's certainly not mouldy or unpleasant, but it would be good if it was a tad fresher.
Febreeze has been mentioned, but this seems to me like the equivalent of spraying some Glade around after a vindaloo event rather than actually opening the bog window for 10 minutes.
I'm very tempted to try some car upholstery cleaner...perhaps cleverly hang the jacket so that the lining is pulled away from the outer, and so if it does soak through, it would have to go uphill/against gravity and across an air gap to make it to the outer.
Anyone got any tips?
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