If you wash a cape that has been treated with stop rot does it wash the stop rot out. Do you need to apply it again. Oh yeah my bottle says Shrink Tonic But its like the other stop rot bottles ive used so I kept it
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that's a "Depends" kind of question. Depends on what you have in mind to do next. If you're putting it under salt next, you're set to go. If you're going to DP for the next step, you're set to go. If you are going to freeze next, I would put STOP-ROT on it again before freezing.
Now I have to ask you a question. What did you wash the cape with? Just water, or did you use something else along with the water?
I washed it with Lysol and cool water
and write this down.
If you are pickling capes, leave out the Lysol. Keep writing, start reading the ingredients on the labels of these household products you might be using. If they contain the words "ammonium chloride" do not use them. These can be re-active with acids and might give you some hair slip problems that might not even show up until a mount is at the dry down stage. If you are using DP no problems that I know of.
Now, STOP-ROT will neutralize ammonium chloride, but what happens then is your chemicals have been "used up" in reactions, and you really don't have much of value left to work with your skin.
Here's the best I've came up with:
1. Wash with plain old water, OR
2. If the cape is real bloody, muddy, cruddy, mix a pound of salt to the gallon of water and add enough of the acid that you are using to take the pH just below 6. A 5.5 to 6 will get you there. Put the cape in this long enough to soften the crud up. Doesn't take long, no longer than it takes to wash anything else that's dirty. Then rinse the heck out of it with plain old water. Get rid of the excess moisture by draining, then spinning out in a washer, bagging, or whatever method you're currently using.