We all love finding the easiest alternative while doing our daily chores. And ironing is a task that is a common headache all around the world because it is a hectic chore that causes strain in your neck, but here I am going to tell you about an excellent substitute of iron that best suits ironing and even cleaning, deodorizing and revive the fibers of your daily clothes, yeah! good guess this is the steamer.
The steamer is an elegant, lightweight, handheld device to unwrinkle and cleanse your clothes in a shorter time than the traditional irons (whether dry iron or steam iron). So let’s have a read to know what steaming clothes are, why you should steam your clothes, and what are benefits of it.
What Is Steaming?
The easiest and most efficient way to remove wrinkles and cleanses the stains, odor-causing bacteria, allergens, and dirt from your clothes is to steam them with hot vapors of water which replenishes and straightens the interwoven fibers of your clothes.
It does not only unwrinkle your clothes but gives them a new life and a professionally pressed look. Steaming is good for fabrics like silks, wool, cotton, and polyester. Steaming your clothes is the most preferable option for saving your time, money, energy, space, and the quality life of your fabrics.
Benefits Of Steaming
Steaming has many benefits over ironing it is a quick process, the device is easy to use, safe procedure because your clothes do not burn as there is no physical contact between your clothes and the device, deep cleansing because of high-temperature steam, wipes out dust; bacterias and other allergens. Steaming needs less space and is not just for your dresses but also efficient for your home articles like bedding, carpets, mattresses, rugs, pillows, curtains, and more like this.
The benefits of steaming written above are discussed one by one in detail.
Unwrinkles The Clothes
As a great alternative to irons, whether dry or steam iron, the steamer unwrinkles the clothes very efficiently in less than half the time spent ironing.
The heat and steam from the steamer give your clothes a professionally pressed look by loosening the fibers of your fabrics and cleansing them. The steamer can easily handle a wide range of clothes and fabrics by giving them a crispy look and refreshing the fibers from depth.
You have to fill the steamer with water, turn it on, hang the garment and turn the steamer up and down slowly across it.
if the cloth is too much wrinkled then you have to place the steamer over it for thirty seconds or two to three minutes to relax the fibers. But if you want to get a crispier look like for uniform shirts or crease lines then iron is good for that.
Enhances Age of Clothes
Steaming is a cleaning as well as the unwrinkling process for clothes. It enhances the age and extends the life of clothes because it does not use chemicals as in the case of detergents used for washing clothes, it just utilizes water and heat.
Another plus is that in this process the clothes are dealt with by hanging them in a vertical position and are not curled or rolled up as in the washing machines or hand wash so reduces the risk of tears, ripping, and fabric damage by rubbing against other clothes or the walls of the machine.
It also helps to deal with your embroidered clothes and to do spot cleaning. It revives the fibers of your clothes by deep cleansing, loosening them, and aligning them. Steaming also retains the finish of fabrics by avoiding regular machine washings.
Savior Of Time And Space
Steaming your clothes is a very quick and time-saving process. It gives excellent results in a shorter time and is a great blessing when you are in a hurry and your clothes look dreary. It presses and cleanses the clothes at the same time.
You just have to pick up the steamer, hang your clothes in a vertical position, and move the steamer around your clothes, and your clothes will look brand new in a very short time.
Steaming your clothes needs no space like an ironing stand or other table for pressing them. You only have to hang them on the drying stand or another place where you can hang them and apply the steam to them.
Hence the time to arrange the ironing board will also be saved and your dress will get instantly ready to wear.
Handy To Use
The steamer is very handy and easy to use. It is handheld(except the full-sized steamers for commercial purposes as in malls and boutiques) and portable, you can easily carry it with you and efficiently use it if you are not at home, like if you are traveling, in the office or in a rush to go anywhere.
It does not consume your energy to continuously turn your clothes as in the case of ironing to unwrinkle the clothes and reach every corner because the high-temperature steam can easily reach and straighten up the fibers of your clothes even the collars and button lines.
You can also easily and inexpensively clean and get a pressed look on your curtains, bedsheets, pillows, and even rugs and blankets which is indeed a bounty. A steamer is also good because it does not contact the fabric like an iron, it keeps distance from them and hence the clothes do not burn as in the case of irons and the heat is moist so even the delicate fibers are not damaged.
Deodorizing Clothes And Healthy
The hot steam of the steamer kills the bad odor caused by bacteria in clothes and wipes them out hence deodorizing your clothes.
It kills germs and completely wipes out other allergens like pollens and dust particles so it is good for your health also. Steaming removes the sweat and even its stinkiest smell leaving your clothes fresher than ever.
Steaming your clothes is very good for your health especially in hay fever season and pollen allergy season when bacteria and pollen linger on clothes.
Conclusion
So above are some benefits of steaming clothes which will help you to choose the best one from iron and steamer. And also make you understand why you should have a steamer, how it works and what are its advantages.