Cleaning Your Artificial Flowers - A How to Guide

As you may know, we are artificial flower lovers! With 14 stores in the UK filled with artificial flowers galore, today we thought we would bring you a blog on how to care for your artificial blooms!

Not only are artificial flowers beautiful, but they are perfect for allergy sufferers, great for light transportation compared to water-soaked fresh flowers, and also allow you to keep them forever (re-use and recycle!). They do require a small amount of care to help them look the best for a lifetime. Read on for some tips for keeping your artificial blooms clean:

Dusting

Dusting your artificial flowers (weekly if possible) with either a feather duster, microfibre clot, hair dryer (on the lowest setting), or a vacuum cleaning with a sock secured at the end, set again on the lowest setting.

Flower Shake with Salt

Another way to help keep your artificial flowers clean is to simply place your artificial flower in a plastic bag with two tablespoons of salt (rock salt works best). Gently shake the bag for around a minute, once done it will help to get the dirt out of the parts of the flowers that you can’t quite reach with a duster.

Misting the flowers

If you find your flowers are particularly dirty, or perhaps have some grease/paint/liquid splatter on it, you may need to use a spray bottle with equal parts water to white vinegar. Make sure to test a small part before applying to all flowers, to ensure the colour won’t run. Once lightly misted, leave to air dry and place a towel under.

Soap and Water

Another way to clean your beautiful artificial is by filling your sink with Luke warm water and adding just a couple of drops of soap. Pop in each artificial flower and give a gentle twist while in the water, if needed rub petals to get rid of grime inside it. If your water looks slightly discolored, change before cleaning the next blooms. Leave to air dry with a towel underneath.

Please note, don’t clean like this if they are hand-wrapped bouquets, this can weaken it.

Lemon Juice

Some people like to recommend using a small amount of lemon juice in a spray bottle, gently spraying it onto dirty areas of the flowers. When satisfied with how the artificial flowers look, rinse them in cool water and leave them to dry on a towel.

Microfibre Cloth

The last way of cleaning your artificial flowers is to dampen a microfibre cloth with water and a dash of soap, gently wiping the flowers to help remove any dirt.

Please avoid using any harsh chemicals or scrubbing your artificial flowers as it may cause colours to run, or fray your petal ends.