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Women’s Smartwool Hike Light Cushion Ankle Sock – How to Wash Merino Wool

A few simple Merino wool care steps will keep your Merino socks, base layers, and other clothing looking as great as they feel. Washing Merino wool Smartwool® products is generally okay, but it’s important to check the tag on each garment for best results.

• Turn socks and garments inside out.
• Machine-wash on gentle cycle in warm or cool water (avoid hot water as heat may shrink wool).
• Use mild soap, no bleach or fabric softener (bleach destroys the Merino wool fibers, and fabric softener coats those fibers—reducing their ability to naturally manage moisture and regulate body temperature).
• While you can tumble-dry most of our Merino, we recommend air-drying to reduce your environmental impact and further extend the life of each product. Dry your wool clothes by laying them flat (hanging wet wool may distort the shape). If you prefer the dryer, tumble-dry on low setting. And, as always, check the care label. A few of our products still shouldn’t be dried in the dryer.

Some of our jackets and vests contain a DWR (durable water repellent) finish that is great for helping to keep you dry. Over time, dirt and oil accumulation may reduce the effectiveness of DWR, making it less water-repellent. Occasional cleaning will help keep your DWR working efficiently. However, it’s a bit of a balance. The DWR treatment will eventually wash off with repeated laundering and will need to be reapplied.

Smartwool Guarantee

Gear Up Risk-Free We stand behind everything we make. We promise to make our products with incredible attention to comfort, fit, and durability—because we want you to love our gear as much as we do. And we want it to be able to support all of your adventures, from exploring new cities to summiting new mountains. So if, for any reason, you aren’t completely happy with your Smartwool® gear within two years of purchasing, we’ll get you into some new gear. No problem.

Women’s Smartwool Hike Light Cushion Ankle Sock – About Smartwool

The Smartwool community is a collection of people who believe that time outside is valuable, restorative, and essential for everyone. When we started making socks back in 1994, our founders simply wanted to be able to ski longer without getting cold toes. That’s when they discovered the benefits of Merino wool as a performance fabric. It was soft (softer than any wool they had ever felt), moisture-wicking, thermoregulating (warm when it’s cold, and cool when it’s warm), sustainable, and odor-neutralizing—helping to keep feet dry, comfortable, and warm for longer than the synthetic socks they were wearing at the time. It worked so well, in fact, that we use it in almost every single item we make. We were the first outdoor company to make performance Merino wool ski socks—revolutionizing the category and forever changing the way outdoor enthusiasts viewed their feet. Our whole brand was built on the desire to be comfortable on outdoor adventures—we wanted to go farther and experience more. And that drive continues to fuel everything we do. From our Merino wool supply chain to our Smartwool advocacy program to how we design our socks and apparel, we exist to help you play, live, and laugh in the great outdoors as often as you would like. So, what is Smartwool? We are a group of insatiable outdoor adventurers who want to share the joy of crisp powder turns, try-hard first ascents, scrambly summit sunrises, pine needle-cushioned hikes, and s’more-filled weekends with everyone. And we share those things by creating Merino wool clothes designed to help you go far and feel good. We help people experience powerful, beautiful moments in the outdoors by working to remove distraction like clammy base layers and blistered feet, so you can focus on the adventures right in front of you. We exist to enable your every adventure, whether it’s taking your dog for a walk on a chilly morning or summiting an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas.