If you want to remove the pilling off your cashmere or wool sweaters, then go with a sweater shaver and you will not regret it. The pilling appears when fabric rubs either against the skin or other fabric, and when this happens fibers come loose. As an area of fabric is rubbed regularly, pills or balls of fabric will start to form on your garment.

Removing the pills from the wool garment or sweater is best done with the help of a sweater shaver. This shaver is a tool, which when you pass it over the garment’s surface, it will remove the fabric pills by picking them up. Since materials will have different resistances, you should go with a sweater shaver which will not damage the clothing you’re wearing. You should read all the materials which came with your sweater shaver and follow them to the letter. If the sweater shaver is used incorrectly, the garments might be damaged and that’s the opposite of what you’re trying to accomplish here.

If you use a sweater shaver the right way, you can extend the sweater’s life quite a bit. Usually, after you wear a sweater for some time, it will start to look old if pills of fabric appear on it. Since those fabric pills are quite small, the sweater can still be used, but it doesn’t look as good as it used to. By using a sweater shaver to take out the fabric pills, you can continue to use your sweater and it will look new, just like it was when you purchased it. Despite the name, sweater shavers should be usable on other garments as well, not just on sweaters. You can use it on a wool coat from last year if you wish, carefully passing the sweater shaver over its surface. You can also use it on wool gloves, hats and scarves if you have any older ones.

If this is your first time using a sweater shaver, you should practice a bit on some clothing that you don’t care about anymore. This way you will learn how the tool should be used before trying it on the clothes that you love. Just like regular human shavers, sweater shavers will come in a number of varieties, powered by batteries, electricity or batteries, and the price can vary quite a bit as well.

You should remember that these handy tools will not work when used on cotton. Since the fibers of cotton bind to each other in a different way, there is a good chance that you will get holes in your clothes if you try the sweater shaver on them. Also, the chances of pilling are smaller with cotton than they are with pashmina, cashmere or wool.

Are you curious where you can go and buy a sweater shaver, to make your old coats made out of wool look like new again? You can usually find sweater shavers in most regular large stores, or in drugstores. Your local department store can be a good place to start. Walgreen is one example of store that should have them for sale, but you always have the option to choose an online store and see what their offer is. A couple of online stores that carry sweater shavers are Target, Wal-Mart and Amazon.com.