>>5795832>washUnless you're touching them with dirty hands, carrying them around everywhere or dropping shit on them like a child, you shouldn't need to wash a plush. For a light surface clean, a damp cloth rubbed briskly over the affected area should do it. For filthy plush most children's toys these days are made durable and able to be machine washed. A lot of modern washing machines even have a gentle/delicate cycle or one specially for stuffed toys, when washing I always put the toy inside of a pillow case and pin or tie it shut to cover their eyes and other details, it stops them getting scratched or damaged by the metal bowl.
>mitesYou don't get those unless you live in absolute filth, they only thrive in damp/moist/humid locations with a build up of organic matter. Keep linen dry, wash your sheets once a week or fortnight at least, flip your mattress.
>dustYou can use a soft-bristled brush on them like a baby's hairbrush, or a plastic-bristled brush specially for plushies like the ones sold by Build a Bear. Or you can use a quick whoosh of compressed air, or a hair dryer on the cool setting to dust them off.
>perfumeI have a couple of scented discs in various Build a Bear plush, and a lavender-scented microwave bedwarmer teddy. They're all stored together so the scent mingles into the unscented ones too, it's nice. You can pretty much put a few drops of any scented oil or perfume onto a plush if you want to add a smell, just be careful that it's not a skin irritant.
