| Oh yeah -- Wisk is great stuff for anything white, but for my regular clothes I find it has a tendency to wreck the fiber pretty quickly.
Just a note: if you decide to soak your bib overnight in laundry detergent, do not, under any circumstances, use Gain. The stench of the perfume once you start sweating in it again will make you barf -- promise!
The only thing about soaking a rubber-backed bib in detergent of any kind is that it has a tendency to make the plastic brittle after a while. To a certain extent, that's to be expected; thay all get bogue and have to be replaced eventually. However, I've found a potential solution.
I'm also a handspinner, and that means that by default sooner or later you're going to have to clean a dirty sheepskin if you're planning to spin it up into anything usable. Part of the problem with cleaning this stuff is that it's got to soak -- you can't agitate any of it for fear of felting the fibers -- and it's usually full of nasty, dirty sheep stuff. (Eww, yeah, I know.) Aside from that, if you use a detergent that's too harsh, you stand the chance of drying the fibers out too much, which means they'll break when you're trying to spin and the end result is a weak yarn. What we use is either Dawn dishwashing detergent or a product called "Orvus," which is designed for washing livestock (particularly sheep). You can get Orvus at any feed store or farm supply. I haven't tried this stuff on my bib (mine doesn't detach), but if anyone would like to give it a try, let me know how it comes out!
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