How to clean a light leather bag at home?

The bag for women is not just a fashion accessory, it is also a faithful assistant, as it is incredibly convenient to carry all those 1000 trifles that are needed every day for confidence in any situation. Particularly effective are products of white or neutral tone, but they also cause difficulties in deciding how to clean a light leather bag at home? This and other questions can be answered in this article.

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We start with the lining

As a rule, we clean the leather bag with the fact that all the contents are extracted from it. When the inner and outer pockets are emptied, you can wash the lining. In order to do this:

• Turn it out and with a foam solution of powder start to wash, and then rinse and allow to dry.
• In addition to the powder, the lining can be washed with liquid soap applied on a soft sponge or with shampoo.
• You can not erase, but simply refresh the lining itself, wiping it with a cotton swab, which you will soak in alcohol.

Important! Fans of washing the whole thing entirely need to know that a leather bag can sometimes suffer a lot of total wetting. Better not risk your favorite thing, because you can clean it at home in much more gentle ways.

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General rules for cleaning women's bags from genuine leather

In order to eliminate dust marks, splashes from dirt, wipe off all greased areas:

1. First, wipe the leather bag with a solution of soapy water, to which add a small amount of ammonia.
2. After this, wash everything with a damp sponge to eliminate the stains.
3. The final stage is associated with the return of gloss, moisturizing and directly softening the skin.

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Universal way for light bags from any skin

This cleaning method is the most popular because it is not only incredibly accessible but also simple. To clean the light leather bag in the home in 10 minutes and not to damage it:

1. We begin preparation of a soapy solution - the usual laundry soap is the best. Rub approximately 10 grams of laundry soap on a fine grater, and then add ½ tbsp.warm water. Prepare a solution that will be homogeneous. In no case should there be any lumps.
2. Soak the cotton pad in the prepared solution, and then wipe it with your bag.

Important! Leather bags do not like excessive moisturizing - this leads to a rapid wear of the skin. Never wet the surface of bags too much, and always wipe them dry after finishing the treatment.

1. Rub the bag with a soft cloth until it shines.
2. Quite often after such processing, the bag seems somewhat dull. Therefore, after completing any cleaning, the skin needs to be treated with a special moisturizer.
3. After you have processed the bag with a softener, be sure to wipe it again with a dry cloth.

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How can I clean a light bag of white leather?

What to do with black material seems to be understandable without our advice, but here's what to clean a leather bag that has a light or snow-white tinge? We use such tools:

• Ordinary cow's milk, which excellently eliminates pollution and simultaneously softens the skin. Apply heated low-fat milk with a cotton pad, changing it as it gets soiled.
• Reinforced compound. The protein is beaten, and then a small amount of warm milk is added to it. This method at home is incredibly good for any white skin, including lacquered, because it is incredibly sparing.
• Cleanser for make-up. It is better to take that make-up that is made on a cream basis. It will not only extremely gently clean the light leather bag, but also soften the material, increase its resistance to frost, moisture.

Important! Suitable for an important process of completing cleansing - softening, castor oil, glycerine or Vaseline - looking what you can find in your house. Any emollient is applied with a tampon and light rubbing movements. Too much cream leather can not absorb, which is why do not overdo it, otherwise you will have to wash it with rags.

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We fix the smooth and lacquered leather

The smooth glossy leather women's bag must be cleaned with a damp cloth and then rubbed intensively with a woolen dry cloth.

The same way they take care of the patent leather. But in order that the varnish does not begin to crack ahead of time, you can use a special water-based protective agent, which you can buy at special shoe stores.

Important! Regardless of the situation and degree of soiling, never take the following measures to to clean the light lacquered leather bag at home:

• cleaning with an ordinary skin cream;
• cleaning with any fat cream, lard, vegetable oil.

Remember that wearing such accessories in too hot - more than +25 C, or too cold - less than -10 C, the weather is unacceptable.

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Useful advices:

1. Makeup remover is most effective if you drop an ink on an accessory. For a few minutes, apply it to the bag, and then eliminate the contamination with an ordinary cotton swab. The spots will disappear without a trace.
2. In order to get your bag back to its original appearance, cut a medium-size bulb in half, and then rub one problem with one half. Pollution will begin to dissolve right before your eyes. On the degree of contamination cut onions, change it.

Important! Onions do not leave absolutely no stains after themselves, and also does not change the external condition of the skin.

1. In the event that you are going to regularly wipe the bag with wet napkins, you will not have to rush to find the answer to the question, than to wash the leather bag. She will always be in excellent condition. With a wet wipe you can clean not only dust and dirt, but also traces of dirty hands or grease stains.

With all the above mentioned tools you can always maintain your spectacular light leather bag in excellent condition. We hope that we have convinced you that in fact, the care of such material will not be too tiring and you will allow yourself this joy in choosing a new model.