Downy Dunk

The Downy Dunk is used to get bad smells out of your American Girl Dolls hair. Here are the instructions to do it!


 * 1) Find a large, shallow container like a casserole dish and fill it with an inch or so of Downy or any other brand of fabric softener. Buy the unscented, kind (white bottle for Downy) unless you have a doll with cigarette smell in her hair and you might want the scent. Buy the non-concentrated kind unless you can't find it, in which case you can dilute the concentrated with water.
 * 2) Lay your doll down next to the dish and place her hair in the fabric softener. It helps if you put your doll on a prop or something so that she is at a better angle to get as much of the hair in the liquid as possible.
 * 3) Ladle some of the fabric softener over her hair and try to saturate every strand.
 * 4) Occasionally ladle more fabric softener over the hair that isn't submerged.
 * 5) Proceed with rinsing and drying as from shampooing. When you're done, pour the fabric softener back into the bottle with a funnel and re-use it if you're just using it for doll hair restoration.