White Furniture:
They Love It - You Hate it!

 Browning of natural fiber fabrics, especially those containing cotton, rayon, and linen, is infrequent when the cleaning professional uses appropriate low pH   cleaning products, controls wetting during the cleaning process and ensures rapid drying afterward.

Why Do My Customers Insist on Buying White Furniture!!

• Decorative Flexibility:  
  No matter what kind of rugs, interior paint, or other furnishings that your customer wishes to have in their home, white goes with everything!
• Brightens the Room:
  Today people want “light and bright” in their indoor environment. This desire has only increased as the “stay at home orders of 2020” has affected so much of your customers thoughts and feelings.
• Confidence that Protector Works: 
  Many designers promote protective soil and stain protective treatments as a reason that they shouldn't fear white furniture.

Unfortunately for both you and  your customer, this often leads to the fabric's being neglected until heavy soiling and stains become a challenge to remove.

Cleaners who use improper cleaning agents and who leave the fabric wet too long can cause white natural fiber fabrics to “brown” upon drying.  “Browning” is a discoloration that occurs when materials within natural, cellulose fibers react with cleaning agents and moisture and leave yellow and brown stains throughout the fabric.

BROWNING! - This should NEVER happen when you clean upholstery!

(This damage occurs because the chemical process that removes the browning also weakens cellulose fibers.)

If you truly care about giving your customer the best outcome when correcting this type of damage, there  are better ways to eliminate browning that will not damage the fabric.

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The Safer Browning Removal Alternative:

If you have the ability to bring the furniture to your location, consider the following alternative browning correction procedure:

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Absorbent Treatment:

STEP #1 Apply An Acidic Fabric Rinse: 
Acid rinse agents, as well as some tannin spotters that do NOT contain a reducing agent, will often remove browning. The key is to dry the fabric quickly for them to work so that bleaching isn't necessary. Drying with air is rarely fast enough, so the second step here is critical:

STEP #2 Pack With An Absorbent Spotting Powder:
Its important not to confuse this type of product with absorbent powders used for cleaning. These products either use synthetic polymers or diatomaceous earth and act like “microsponges” to rapidly absorb moisture (and browning) from the fabric.

STEP #3  Allow to dry: 
You need to allow the moisture to be completely absorbed from the fabric and into the powder before you go any further. This may take several hours, so this is why this process is best done in plant.

STEP #4  Brush and vacuum to remove the powder: 
After you remove the powder, in most cases the browning will be gone, and the fabric will be left with its original color, and without any physical damage.

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HERE IS THE REAL SOLUTION:

Of course this time consuming, labor intensive procedure is one you should avoid at all costs!

The key to preventing browning is to clean the fabric properly in the first place. It is also important that you communicate with your customer regarding the limitations of cleaning heavily soiled natural fiber fabrics because of this issue.