Cord Cleaning Tips
Cord Cleaning Tips
Our cord cleaning tips will help you keep your strung rosaries, chaplets, and bracelets in good condition.
Cord Cleaning Tips
Cleaning strung rosaries, chaplets, or bracelets depends on the beads.
Plastic Bead Rosaries
Strung Rosaries with plastic beads are the easiest to clean. They can be hand-washed in a sink of warm water with a gentle detergent and a toothbrush.
Alternatively, you can wash them inside of a laundry bag. Then, put them on the most delicate cycle of a washing machine. NEVER put them in the dryer. They need to air dry completely before use.
Rosaries With Wood Beads
Immersing strung wood rosaries in water will damage the beads. The only way to safely clean them is by moving the beads one at a time. With a damp cloth and mild detergent, slide the beads out of the way to wash the cord. Let it completely air dry before using it. Another idea is to have your rosary re-strung.
Knotted Twine Rosaries
Rope Rosaries have knots instead of beads. They can soak in a sink of warm water with a mild detergent. They can also go inside of a laundry bag on the gentlest cycle of a washing machine. Then hang them to dry.
TIP
Make sure your strung rosary is completely dry before you store it or use it.
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IN REVIEW
Cleaning a cord rosary depends on the beads.
- Rosaries with Plastic beads are the easiest to clean. They can be hand-washed in a sink of warm water with a gentle detergent and a toothbrush. You can also wash them inside of a laundry bag on the delicate cycle of the washing machine. *NEVER put it in the dryer. They need to air-dry completely before use.
- Immersing Rosaries with wood beads will damage the beads. You can safely clean them by sliding the beads out of the way to wash the cord with a damp cloth and mild detergent. Let it air dry completely before storage. It can be restrung as an alternative.
- Rope Rosaries have knots instead of beads. They can soak in a sink of warm water with a mild detergent. They can also go inside of a laundry bag on the gentlest cycle of a washing machine. Then hang them to dry.