How to clean cabbage patch dolls

The clothing can be washed the same way you wash your own clothing. Use a stain stick to pre-treat any stains. Wait two hours and then wash in the washing machine with some laundry detergent, using the cold water setting. Throw in the dryer for thirty minutes.

While it’s true that certain dolls, such as some “Baldies,” “Red Fuzzies” (rare red yarn-like fuzzy hair) and some of the other very early Coleco dolls bring over $100, and even some pre-Cabbage Patch Xavier Roberts dolls can bring over $1,000, most dolls sell for $10 to $30 and have not changed much from the original

Drying Your Cabbage Patch Kid Doll After Its Bath

A lot of people are willing to tie a towel around its head with a rubber band and throw it in the dryer, but I don’t do that. After all, 30+ years is pretty old for a doll. Once your Kid has stopped dripping completely you can air dry it near (not TOO near) a heater.

Since yarn hair is usually glued to a plastic doll’s head, or stitched to a fabric doll head, you can clean it by simply sipping the hair into a solution of “hand-wash” laundry product or stain pre-treater with water. Gently massage the hair with the fingers and rinse the hair carefully.

Use mild liquid soap as a shampoo or baby shampoo. When you wash a doll’s hair, take care not to get the wig cap wet. Put tin foil and plastic on the doll to protect it. If you get the wig cap wet, put it on the doll immediately or the cap will shrink.

Method One: Fabric Softener

Mix a water and fabric softener solution. Allow the doll’s hair to soak in the solution for several minutes. Gently brush the doll’s hair. Rinse any remaining solution from the hair.

Dip the doll’s hair in the water for no more than five seconds. The heat helps to soften the hair, but too much heat can destroy it. Apply a few drops of mild dishwashing soap or baby shampoo to the hair. Starting at the ends, begin to comb through the hair.

Two steps to fix frizzy hair

First, we combed all the knots out. Second, we boiled water, poured it into a shallow bowl, dipped the doll’s hair in, and combed it. Once the hair was all smoothed out, we towel dried it, combed it so it was laying the way wanted, and then let it dry.

Use machine oil such as Sewing Machine Oil (available at Walmart.) Put a couple of drops in the doll’s eye(s) and let the oil run back into the eyeball. Then turn the doll face forward onto a towel or paper napkin and leave her like that for a few hours or overnight or a few days. The eyes will be sparkling.