Tips for Basket Care and Cleaning Your Basket
Wood Basket Care - how to care and protect your wooden basket:
Wooden Baskets are wonderful for so many places and uses in your home. The proper care will ensure that they are treasured for years. Here are some tips for the care of your wooden basket:
- Clean your wooden basket with a feather duster, clean, dry natural bristle paint brush, or a soft vegetable or mushroom brush.
- Baskets are sensitive to drastic temperature and humidity changes, so be aware of where the baskets are placed in your home.
- Keep your wooden baskets away from heat sources and out of direct sunlight and intense artificial light to avoid fading, bleaching or making the baskets brittle.
- Take care of your wooden basket by applying natural oils to keep the wood healthy and clean. Jamestowne Fine Basket Conditioner is made with natural ingredients and contains Lemon Oil, a natural cleaner for wood. Jamestowne’s lemon oil comes from California lemons.
- Changes in humidity, and in addition, grease, odors from foods, perfumes and cigarettes can tighten or swell the basket. The tightening or swelling of the wood in your basket can result in the loss of patina, finish, and some breaks in the wood, so be careful of baskets in the bathroom or kitchen. Applying Jamestowne Fine Basket Conditioner to your basket, will help reduce the damage your basket may sustain from the changes in humidity.
- Wooden baskets can more easily absorb natural oils from a liquid, so restore the natural oils to your basket with a liquid conditioner. Jamestowne Fine Basket Conditioner is a liquid that both cleans and restores wood furniture.
- Carnauba wax is the nature’s hardest natural polish, and will help protect your wood from water moisture and drying out. Jamestowne Fine Basket Conditioner contains Carnauba Wax to give you the best protection nature can provide.
- Healthy wood needs to breathe, so do not use heavy waxes that can seal the wood. Jamestowne Fine Basket Conditioner adds a protective cover to your furniture, but does not seal the wood from the air, so your wooden basket can breathe.
- Water will damage your wooden basket. When water gets on your wooden basket, wipe the water off immediately. Apply Jamestowne Fine Basket Conditioner to restore your wooden basket to its original condition.
- Be aware of petroleum and petroleum distillates in wood conditioners, for petroleum and petroleum distillates can remove the natural oil from the wood, causing the wood to become dry and damaged. Jamestowne Fine Basket Conditioner does not contain petroleum or petroleum distillates.