Louise Adie What causes the fibers to felt is a temperature change, specifically from hot to cold. You don’t want to agitate it a lot, but pouring some water over the top should not cause felting unless you are working with a really fine wool.
In the middle eastern farms what they do it put it on the stove and boil it with the soap to remove it thorough and with hot tap water rinse it off and do it afew times to make sure it’s completely off
Also, since I"m using a smaller amount of wool and not doing this often I'm not likely to purchase the Unicorn liquid soap and I don't want to use Dawn, what SHOULD I use? Thanks!
Louise Adie Hi! Thanks for watching! You can purchase Unicorn Power Scour in little 4oz bottles, and that sounds like the perfect option for you. We do carry that size on our website, and I have some in stock right now!
As long as you don't put it on spin cycle, yes. If you are just using the bigger drum for space, sure! But you don't want to felt your fiber with agitation.
jac lyn Hi! Sometimes spinners want to spin “in the grease” and then wash the skein of yarn afterwards. You can use this same method on yarn, using the Power Scour and wash gently. I don’t typically spin in the grease, but some spinners really enjoy it. The lanolin has almost a lotion effect. Feels great on the hands! If you have a really clean fleece that can be a fun experiment. Does that help?
Just a guess, but I'd try using a simple homemade all natural soap. Something made with just fat or oil and lye. No detergents, surfactants, etc. Detergent was only invented about 100 years ago and people having been working with wool a lot longer than that, so they must have been using natural soap originally.
Late to the party, but I'd love a more detailed explanation of why you don't just use the Namaste wash all the time. I assume there's a reason it's worth having both products. Thanks!
Hi Kelly! So honestly I had purchased the Unicorn Power Scour first and then decided to try the Namaste product afterwards. I know a lot of people prefer one over the other, but I enjoyed using both. I didn't really have a favorite!
@@FeathertailFiberArts thanks so much for the reply! I'm planning my first scour next week, but can't (yet) justify collecting too many products, so I appreciate the input. I got small bottles of the Unicorn products and will probably experiment with different methods on different chunks of the fleece. :)
Hi Tori not ure if you will see this i know the vidio was made 5 years ago. But im wondering if doc bronner soap would word for cleaning a fleece to spin?
@@saritasquinta i have 2, 20 year old boxes of raw wool my mother bought from a farm in northern illinois. Depending on where you are, i would hope you could try to find local wool by asking at a local feed store? I'd go to a local librarian too, perhaps they'll know how to locate farms? Or ask on a wool blog online. This is a one time project for me, it's not something I do all the time. Good luck finding some wool!
saritasquinta I bought a ton of raw wool off of eBay. It’s pretty easy to track down online if you just do a general search for “raw wool for sale”. Good luck!
Thank you! I just got goats! This video was super helpful! Another question... can you use horse shampoo as the soap? I tried using dish soap and it formed a big clump... is there a way to make it less clumpy?
I don’t know what VM is, but I am guessing the poop tags are just the extremely dirty “tags” of wool that are there with shearing. They really aren’t worth the efffort of washing. I try and separate them from the actual usable wool to give the shearers. But I’d love to know what the VM stands for!
