HOW TO CLEAN YOGA MAT | Yoga mat cleaner for the best yoga mats 2021

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have you ever wondered how to clean your yoga mat well let's find out [Music] hi i'm alexia and i'm a yoga teacher and i've been a yoga practitioner for about 11 years now and i also own several mats so if you have ever wondered why your yoga mat smells maybe after some time it's because when we practice our sweat and skin cells stay on the surface and this invites bacteria to grow and so with time this is what causes the bad odor so there's two ways we can help fight this the first thing is after every practice let your mat air now you can do this if you practice at home just hang it out or if you practice in a yoga studio and you can't do it there when you go home try to remember to do it and the second way is to actually clean your yoga mat now i've got four yoga mats here and three of which so the little lemon the jade and the maduka can be cleaned in the exactly same way and i'll be showing you how to do that the lifeform yogama asks to be cleaned in a slightly different way so i'm going to show that afterwards so we want to add three parts water and then one part white vinegar [Music] you could also add a few drops of some essential oil for example tea tree oil which is antibacterial but if you've got a jade yoga mat it's recommended that you don't do that now manduka asks us to wipe down our yoga mat after every practice especially if you have a sweaty practice all right and of course don't forget do the other side [Music] the lululemon doesn't have any specific recommendations but again if you have a sweaty practice try to wipe it down if after every [Music] practice [Music] jade recommends cleaning the yoga mat with a damp cloth on a weekly basis however if you have a very sweaty practice or doing hot yoga they recommend cleaning it after every [Music] use and so if you're wondering how to clean your life-form yoga mat you use a tiny bit of dish soap in some water so we add a little bit of dish soap here we mix it up and then get our cloth put our cloth inside make sure we remove all the excess liquid [Music] the life form i recommend we clean our mat only about every five to ten uses and this is because we want to maintain the quality of the mat and then what we want to do is we want to let it air dry [Music] okay so this is how we clean these four types of yoga mats i hope you found this video helpful if you found it helpful please give me a like and i'll see you in the next video bye [Music] you