How To Wash Your Jade Yoga Mat

Jade yoga has its own plant based mat wash meant especially for natural rubber yoga mats.

How to wash your jade yoga mat.

Using a plant based mat wash. If you have a front loading washing machine you can wash your jade mat in the machine on the gentle cycle as long as you do not use an agitator. It is a plant based wash that cleans and protects mats like jade yoga mats. Soap is an amphiphile one end of the molecule is attracted to water and repelled by fats and proteins and the other side is attracted to fats and repelled by water she explains adding that it s this dual.

If you wash in cold or just prefer to use detergent add 1 2 cup vinegar and 1 teaspoon non abrasive laundry detergent to the wash. One of the benefits of a jade yoga mat is its traction. The wash solution is composed of vegetable based surfactant tri sodium citrate citrus oil based emulsion and. If you wash your mat in hot water you can skip this step.

You can clean your yoga mat the same way you wash your hands with water and dish soap. The sun will discolor your mat and the heat humidity might cause it to warp and not lay flat. Skip the vinegar if the vinegar smell bothers you or rinse your mat in hot water to get rid of the. She suggests taking a sponge and body soap to your mat post workout ensuring that the soap has plenty of suds.

Although there are many benefits to this type of design at the end of the day they absorb sweat much easier. All jade yoga mats are open cell. In other words think of them like a sponge. This yoga mat wash was created to clean yoga mats that are made from natural rubber.

Jade mats are eco friendly as they are made with a renewable sustainable resource natural rubber tapped from rubber trees. This means that the material they are made of tends to be more absorbent than your average yoga pad. Perhaps most importantly jade yoga mats are made in the united states in compliance with all us environmental and labor laws. Made using thyme eucalyptus oil and oregano this wash cleans your mat and leaves it with a natural mild and pleasing scent.

Jade mats contain no pvc or other synthetic rubbers. Porat recommends putting your mat in the bathtub or shower and giving it a good scrub and rinse. Choose a detergent when washing your mat in cold water.