JEEVES Newsletter September 2026

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Dear Jeeves Clients,

Happy September. Hong Kong is still warm and humid, with the usual late-summer storms, and I hope you are staying comfortable.

Thank you, as always, for trusting Jeeves with your treasured garments.

This month a question arrived twice at our concierge. One was from a regular client who had seen an influencer talking about dry cleaning. The other was from someone new to us. Both asked what solvents we use, and whether they are harmful to our health.

The short answer, for the person wearing the clothes, is no.

Dry cleaning is not dry. It is cleaning with a liquid solvent instead of water, which is often kinder to fine and structured pieces than a wash. At Jeeves we use more than one professional system, including hydrocarbon and other traditional solvents, chosen for the fabric and the soiling. Hydrocarbon is the gentler bath we use for a great many of the garments you send us.

Is it harmful after you wear the garment?

This is the real question: will I absorb something from my jacket?

On a garment that has been properly cleaned and fully dried in a modern closed-loop machine, no. The solvent does its work inside the machine, then evaporates and is recovered. What you take home should be clean cloth, not a wet chemical. That is the point of the drying cycle, and it is why a properly finished piece has no solvent smell.

The older stories people see online are mostly about working around the chemical in a poorly controlled shop decades ago, not about wearing a finished coat today. That reputation belonged to an earlier way of working. It is not a description of your wardrobe.

What we actually do here

I can only speak for Jeeves. We use modern closed-loop machines, hydrocarbon and other professional solvents matched to the garment, and a proper maintenance, filtration and drying programme so pieces leave clean, fresh and dry. Where water is the better route, we use it.

Other leading houses in Hong Kong work this way too. A short video can make the whole industry sound unsafe. A lot of that material is simply out of date, or it talks about the chemical rather than the process that sits between the chemical and you.

If you have a question about a particular fabric or about how we clean, write to me. I would love to chat. You can email us at jeeves@jeeves.com.hk

Warm regards,
Ryan Merszei
Owner and Director
Jeeves of Belgravia Hong Kong

親愛的 Jeeves 客戶：

九月安好。香港依然悶熱潮濕，夏末風暴如常，希望各位保持舒適。

感謝大家一如既往，把心愛的衣物交託給 Jeeves。

這個月，我們的禮賓服務先後收到兩則相同的查詢。一則來自一位常客，他看過網紅談論乾洗；另一則來自新客戶。兩位都問我們使用甚麼溶劑，以及這些溶劑會否損害健康。

答案是：對穿着衣服的人來說，不會。

乾洗其實並不「乾」。它是以液態溶劑代替水來清潔，對高級或有結構的衣物往往比水洗更溫和。Jeeves 使用多套專業系統，包括碳氫溶劑及其他傳統溶劑，並會按布料和污漬選擇。碳氫溶劑較為溫和，是我們處理許多客人衣物時常用的方法。

穿着後會否對身體有害？

真正的問題是：穿上外套後，會否吸收到甚麼？

只要衣物在現代密閉循環機內經過妥善清潔並完全烘乾，答案是不會。溶劑在機內完成清潔後會蒸發並回收。你帶回家的，應該是乾淨的布料，而不是未乾的化學品。這正是烘乾程序的意義，也是為甚麼處理妥當的衣物不應有溶劑氣味。

網上流傳的舊說法，多數指的是數十年前在管理不善的工場長期接觸化學品，而非今天穿着一件已完成護理的外套。那是舊式工序留下的印象，並不是你衣櫥的情況。

我們實際怎樣做

我只能代表 Jeeves 說明。我們使用現代密閉循環機，按衣物配對碳氫溶劑及其他專業溶劑，並設有完善的保養、過濾及烘乾程序，確保衣物離開時潔淨、清新、乾爽。若水洗更適合該件衣物，我們會用水洗。

香港其他具規模的專業洗熨店，做法亦大致相同。一段短片不應將整個行業描述為不安全。當中不少內容已過時，或者只談化學品本身，而未有解釋化學品與你之間的完整工序。

如果你對某件布料，或對我們的清潔方法有疑問，歡迎寫信給我，我很樂意與您交流，謝謝。電郵：jeeves@jeeves.com.hk

順祝安康

Ryan Merszei
東主及董事
Jeeves of Belgravia Hong Kong