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Wool wash bars are a necessity for all wool owners, in my opinion.  Yes, you can clean your wool without one, but they make the job so much easier.  I’ve tried quite a few wool wash bars and I’ve had mixed results with their ability to get woolies clean.  I set aside two grubby wool soakers so I could put the GroVia Wool Wash Bar to the test.  The results were pretty impressive – it removed some months old stains without a problem.

This bar does contain laonolin, however it’s not a replacement for lanolizing your wool.  In my opinion, this is a good thing – wool wash bars that have so much lanolin in them that properly treating your wool with extra lanolin is unnecessary tend not to do the best job at removing stains.

The bar I received is scented – Ginger Grass.  It’s a nice scent and not too strong, especially in the washed wool.  I don’t prefer for my woolies to smell too strongly when clean, so it makes me happy that I can’t smell it from across the room.

The GroVia Wool Wash Bar is 5 oz, which makes it a very manageable size, meaning it is easy to hold onto even when its wet.  This is very important when you are scrubbing stains with the bar.

I washed two grubby LoveyBums wool soakers with this wool wash bar.  The woolies sat with (mostly food) stains for over a month before I got around to washing them.  I used the standard method for washing wool with a wool wash bar – while filling my sink with room temperature water, I washed my hands with the bar to get as much sudsy goodness into the water as possible. After wetting my wool, I scrubbed the stains with the bar.

Then I let the woolies soak in the water for a few minutes (or more…because like always I forgot about them).

I rolled the woolies into a towel to squeeze the excess water out, then laid them out to dry.

Unfortunately, my camera isn’t the best at picking up the stains, but I do promise that they were there.  The melon soaker especially was all over dingy and grubby looking before I washed it.

Lavendar soaker – worst stain just to the left

Lavendar woolies all clean – the stain is gone

Melon woolies front before – especially grubby at the bottom right

Melon woolies back before - just kind of grubby and dingy

Melon woolies front after (so the discoloring is only because I wasn’t very patient and they’re not fully dry.  Sorry.  They are very clean, though – no more grubby stains!)

Melon woolies back – all clean – bright and not dingy anymore!

Bottom Line - I think I’ve found my new favorite wool wash bar!

Have you tried the GroVia Wool Wash Bar?  If so, please leave your review here!