so here's some panels that I've made you can see I've got polyester fleece on the top and I have cotton a cotton flannel on the bottom synthetic fibers like polyester will not hold water but organic fibers like cotton will and there's a polyester batting in the middle if you use cotton batting that's probably not good because then it's gonna hold water now when your little pet steps on the polyester it's gonna just go right back up like a wet sponge so try to get synthetics on the top and cotton on the bottom so I've washed this set once I always pretty wash my fabric before I sew with it but it looks like it needs a second rinse sometimes you got to do it twice I pour water on there it's definitely just sitting there and that's not good here's an older panel that I have it's been washed several times you pour water on and you can see it instantly goes away so that's the importance of wicking that's the goal that we want so their pets not sitting in pee so here's a load of pet laundry I'm not putting on hot and large just regular cycle so what you want to use is anything that says clean and clear free and clear free and clear that's going to make sure that there's no diet no perfumes um so it's a little bit healthier for their little faces you will do one wash on hot and then when the cycle is complete you're gonna wash it again but I usually do it on regular medium heat and regular rinse because we've already baked it with that nice hot first wash cycle and then I will put in a splash white distilled vinegar and that kills bacteria and smell and odor and then I pop it in the dryer with no dryer sheets no dryer sheets you will undo everything you just did and it will collect water and with water or not with water it will pool let me try to explain better how this works as long as you have a polyester fleece on the top and polyester batting in the middle to create some space and a flannel at the bottom or cotton something like that this organic material the green will absorb any kind of moisture so when your fat little pig steps on this polyester and this fleece it doesn't retain moisture the only one that's moisture sticks to is gonna be the cotton so when he steps on it this space nice fluffy space is gonna keep him dry if we try it again and we put cotton flannel at the top and polyester fleece at the bottom his little foot it's all gonna get moisture and if he steps on it he's gonna step in wetness this is just gonna go right back up here because it doesn't retain moisture so make sure when you do it you put polyester on the top and organic cotton flannels on one