Before you wash a baseball hat you need to get to know it a little better.
Hand wash in the sink with cool water and a mild laundry detergent meant for wool, like Woolite or Zero.
Be gentle with your wool baseball caps, if you scrub, rub or twist you'll cause the natural wool fibers to matte together and you will end up with felted baseball hats that are a couple of sizes too small for you.
The key step here is to wash it WITHOUT detergent in the dishwasher.
How to clean your older baseball caps without actually washing them.
While the baseball cap is specifically associated with those who play the game of baseball, it is often worn as a fashion statement as well as practical headgear. It is very popular in the United States and Japan.
Use delicate clothes soap in bar form and gently rinse it and air dry and shape it.
Before you wash a baseball hat you need to get to know it a little better.
I have some hats in the dirty clothes that are in need of a dishwashing cycle!
If there is no change to the colour then go ahead and clean the dirtiest part of your older baseball hats, the headband, using the washcloth and detergent.
There are many inventions out there to help people wash their baseball caps. There are little plastic hat cages. There are chemical cleaners that look like underarm deodorant. There a suggestions to wash your cap in the dish washer.
For leather ball caps, I would recommend only professional cleaning.
The other day, I was thinking, "How on Earth do you wash a baseball cap?"
Putting it in the washing machine would just tumble it to bits and take the shape out of it completely. And scrubbing it by hand would be too arduous and probably do a not-so-good job.
So, I did a little research online and found out in some usergroups that running your baseball caps in the dishwasher was the solution. Just run it on a regular cycle (without detergent) and then let air dry when it's done.
I did this with my baseball caps and found it worked!?? I did run it in my clothes dryer on the drying rack so it didn't tumble. It came out smelling fresh and looked just like new.
