How to clean a leather jacket at home - effective and affordable ways

Leather jackets have many advantages: they look stylish, perfectly protect against wind and cold, and with proper care they retain their appearance for a long time. Many are worried about how to clean a leather jacket at home. After all, dry cleaning services are not affordable for everyone, and you want to get rid of stains as quickly as possible.

What will help?

Before deciding how to clean the leather jacket more effectively, you need to assess the scale and nature of the contaminants.

• Soap, water and ammonia help to remove light dirt: dust, stains from droplets, stains.
• Alcohol will clean greasy spots, as well as stains from ink and felt pens.
• Petrol will help to remove a fat stain from dense skin.
• Chalk, starch or talc will help get rid of greasy spots on thin skin.
• Vinegar will remove stains from water and salt.
• Castor oil or glycerin will help soften the material after cleaning.
• Lemon juice will help return the jacket shine and get rid of the unpleasant odor.
• Orange peel helps to restore natural shine and eliminate scuff.

Regular care

If there are no visible spots, this does not mean that cleaning the jacket is not necessary. Regular care for a leather jacket is simply necessary. This will help to keep the fresh look and color of not only the skin, but also the leatherette for a long time. For cleaning, a solution of soapy water and a small amount of ammonia is suitable( about 10 drops of alcohol per glass of water).

If you see that the jacket needs to be washed, you simply have to treat it with a sponge or a flannel cloth moistened with a solution. Then rinse the soap solution with clean water and dry the skin. After that, it is recommended to coat the jacket with a special cream for the skin. If it is not at hand, glycerin or conventional castor oil will help, which helps to soften the material.

Tip

How do I update my white leather jacket? Light skin will clean ordinary milk. It does not leave marks and stains on the product, and also helps to soften the skin. Another good bleach is lemon juice.

How to eliminate greaseiness?

In addition to dust and spray, there are more persistent dirt, which is a little more difficult to get rid of. Usually the collar "suffers", it regularly comes in contact with the neck. To make it less dirty, it is recommended to wear a scarf, and also from time to time wipe it with soapy water. But how to clean the jacket, if the stains already appeared? Straighten the collar and wipe it well with a cotton swab soaked in medical alcohol. After that, grate it with lemon juice and then with glycerin to soften the skin. In the same way, you can clean the sleeves and other greasy places.

Tip

If the collar is not soiled, you can restore it using cosmetic milk to remove makeup. Simply moisten the cotton pad in the milk and wipe the collar.

Remove complex spots

A greasy stain can be removed using pure gasoline or turpentine, which is sold in construction stores. Dip a soft cloth or sponge into the gasoline and wipe the spot with a stain. To quickly remove the smell, hang the jacket outdoors for a while, then treat it with lemon juice. The same tool is effective for eliminating mold and paint stains.

Advice

In order not to spoil the color of the jacket, it is necessary to use the solvent moderately. Before use, it is best to test its effect on a small and inconspicuous area.

Petrol is suitable only for dense and rough skin. Softer and delicate products, as well as jackets from leatherette exposed to gasoline can be dangerous. How to update a leather jacket in this case? Chalk, starch or talc will help you. Dissolve the agent in water to get a thick white gruel. Apply the mixture on the stain and leave for a few hours or overnight. Then wipe the chalk with a sponge or sponge, if necessary, wipe the jacket with a soap solution and apply glycerin.

Students and office workers are familiar with the problem when different ink stains and dots remain on the jacket. It is especially easy to spoil the light skin with ink. To eliminate the marks from the ballpoint pen or felt-tip pen, simply moisten the wadded disc with medical alcohol and wipe all the spots on it.

Washing a leather jacket

Many people are concerned about the question: how to wash a leather jacket correctly and whether it is possible to do it at all? Categorically it is not recommended to wash products from the skin in a washing machine. This can lead to the fact that the thing will simply lose its nice appearance and color. Often after such an impact, good things no longer yield to rehabilitation. Jackets from leatherette can be washed in a washing machine only if it is authorized by the manufacturer( usually this information is indicated on the label).

But the lining, which is located closer to the body, needs washing from time to time. At home without using a washing machine, it is difficult to clean it: it is impossible to wet the outer leather surface, and the fabric lining, on the contrary, should be damped properly. Before you wash the leather jacket, turn it inside out and lift the lining to protect the leather areas as much as possible from the moisture. Moisten the lining with a dampened sponge in the water and grate it with a warm soapy solution or detergent solution.

Then carefully rinse the lining. You can use a clean cloth dipped in water with the addition of a few drops of vinegar. After this, hang the jacket in the same inverted condition for drying. Dry better at room temperature. If you want to stroke the jacket, do it from the inside and only through the fabric.

Useful recommendations

1. Use special impregnation to keep the material color, do not burn out in the sun and do not spoil in the rain and snow. This measure will less often resort to cleaning products made of leather and kozhzama.
2. Do not wear a thing while it's wet, so you can stretch it.
3. Do not dry the leather or leatherette jacket next to the radiators, let alone on them.
4. During cleaning, do not rub the skin too much, this can deform it.
5. Do not rub the orange skin with white skin, otherwise the light surface may spoil the spots of red color.
6. Try to immediately clean the stains, do not let them soak into the skin. Fresh spots are much easier to remove.

Knowing how to care for a leather jacket, you can keep its beauty for a long time. And for this it is not necessary to spend a lot of money for dry cleaning.