Not so much a detailed how-to, but more a reminder that cleaning your bee suits is a good management practice. Suits get dirty, carry body odor, and bee pheromones.

On this occasion, I simply was looking to clean the grime off the suit. On other occasions, I might have used the washing machine or more cleaning materials. This was a basic wash with hot water, soap and a little bleach.

As noted in the video, you can use other cleaning agents like Borax or Washing soda (which is not the same as baking soda by the way) to help with stain removal.

Sometimes bee suits show a little mold on them and the bleach helps a bit to clean that up. I would be careful of getting to crazy with cleaning materials and think it might be better to flush the water and clean it again (or maybe a handful of times) until the water runs clear.

One thing to consider is when a suit takes a lot of stings. In those instances, you might want to wash it by hand and flush the water away. There are those who might have a sensitivity to the venom and that venom can leech into the water and deposit on other clothes in the washing machine.

I also used a bleach treatment to clean the mold spots that form. Sometimes when you leave a suit wet and forget about it, you end up with mold on the cloth parts. The bleach based stain remover did a good job at getting 95% of the spots out after letting it soak for 20 minutes and then scrubbing it with a brush.

All of this is not in the video because it was a 'simple' wash your bee equipment message. Hopefully, if you discovered this and took the time to read it - you found it useful. KI