How to clean a leather jacket at home from dirt?

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Contents:
  • Regular care
  • How to deal with greasiness?
  • How to remove stains?
  • How do I care for a light leather jacket?
  • How to give a shine a jacket?
  • Special care products for leather products

The leather jacket has been at the peak of popularity for many years, because it is sturdy, reliable and comfortable, looks good with any clothes. If the skin is properly tended, then it will last for many years, without losing its appearance. But like other clothes, she needs care, because with it, over time, there are various kinds of pollution and stains. Than to clean a skin of a jacket that it has not lost the properties and good appearance? You can, of course, take advantage of dry cleaning services, but there are many folk methods how to clean a leather jacket at home from dirt.

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Regular care

First of all, leather clothes can not be washed in a washing machine. Even if someone tried it and it turned out, then you should not take risks. The skin is not strongly recommended for wetting at all. From this it can be deformed, become rough and all of its appearance will serve you an eternal reproach. But what to do in this case, because you need to somehow get rid of pollution?

Minor dirt is easy to remove:

  1. You need to make a warm soapy solution and arm yourself with a foam sponge. For a soapy solution, shampoo, liquid soap, and a gel for washing clothes are suitable.
  2. Sponge should be moistened in a solution, squeeze and wipe the entire surface of the leather product.
  3. For a better effect, you can add a little ammonia to the solution.
  4. Then remove the remnants of the product with a clean damp cloth.
  5. After this, it is necessary to wipe the jacket with a paper or cotton towel to dryness.

Important! To the skin after a damp cleansing did not become stiff and rough, it should be lubricated with baby cream, glycerin or castor oil.

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How to deal with greasiness?

Those parts with which the jacket is most in contact with the body or rub against surrounding objects, get dirty faster. As a rule, it is a collar, cuffs and a zone around the pockets.

The collar is intensely contaminated with sweat and fat, and after a while becomes greasy. How can I clean the skin of a jacket to remove the fat-and-fat traces? In such cases, alcohol will come to our aid:

  1. Straighten the collar, wipe it with a cotton pad dipped in alcohol. After - grate the lemon juice.
  2. In the end, you need to lubricate the cleansed skin with a solution of glycerin.

In the same way, clean the area of ​​pockets, cuffs or other greasy places.

Important! To ensure that the collar does not get dirty quickly, you should wear a scarf or neck scarf, and wipe the collar once a week with a damp cloth moistened with a solution of any detergent.

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How to remove stains?

Unfortunately, no one is immune from the appearance of various stains on clothes. Depending on the type of stain, the means for removing it is also selected.

Greasy stains:

  • Put a paper towel on the stain area and iron it with a hot iron. After this, it is necessary to wipe the jacket with glycerin.
  • Fat can be removed with solvents - refined gasoline is perfect. If there is no gasoline, turpentine will do.

Important! After treatment with these products, there remains a specific odor, so the jacket will have to be hung for some time in fresh air.

  • Some particularly fussy products can not be exposed to gasoline. In this case, you can try to remove fat with chalk or starch. The selected substance is diluted in water before the formation of gruel, spread on the stain. After a few hours, the remnants of the remedy are removed from the skin.

Important! Before using the solvent, try it on a small, barely visible area of ​​the product.

Paint spots

Such stains are removed very difficult. You can use gasoline, acetone or massage oil.

Dampen a cloth or cotton pad in one of the solvents and thoroughly wipe the problem area. To eliminate the unpleasant odor from the solvent, wipe the skin with a slice of lemon.

Salt Spots

They form after skin contact with rain or snow. You can simply wipe them with vinegar. Wet a tampon in the vinegar and thoroughly wipe the stains.

Important! Instead of vinegar, you can use a soapy solution.

Traces of the handle

If the jacket magically appears traces of ink, you can wipe them with alcohol. If you do not have alcohol at hand, you can salt the jacket. Dampen a little salt and rub with a gruel stain. Then wipe the area moistened with kerosene sponge and grease with glycerin or a special emollient cream. Then wipe the area moistened with kerosene sponge and grease with glycerin or a special emollient cream.

Important! This method has one significant disadvantage: the salt should remain on the spot for 48 hours.

Scratches

If your favorite jacket has scratches and cracks that spoil the appearance, they can be removed with glycerin:

  1. Dilute it in water in a proportion of 1 to 1.
  2. Dampen a soft cloth in this solution, gently rub the mixture into damaged areas.

Important! Glycerin will fill small cracks, and your jacket will again have a presentable appearance.

Mold Spots

How do I clean a leather jacket from mold? We will be helped by refined gasoline. The simple gasoline that motorists have, will not work here. Dampen a gasoline cloth or a tampon and wipe the problem areas.

Traces of blood

If a blood product gets blood, you need to act immediately until the blood has absorbed into the skin:

  1. In this case, wipe the stains with a cloth soaked in soapy water. You can try to remove the stain of blood with aspirin.
  2. Pound the tablet, soak in water and apply the slurry to the stain.

Extra fluid can be removed with a cloth.

Unpleasant odor:

  • The skin absorbs odors well if an unpleasant odor, for example from tobacco, has appeared, can be removed from it using orange peels. This will not only remove all excess odors, but also make the skin soft, clean, will give it shine.

Important! This method can only be used for leather jackets of dark color.

  • You can get rid of the unpleasant odors of sweat and tobacco with soda. Make a soda solution, pour it into the sprayer and treat it to the product.
  • To remove odors, you can lay out the jacket on a horizontal surface and fill it with ground coffee. After 12-24 hours shake off the powder, and the smells will disappear.
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How to care for a light leather jacket?

Light leather jackets are more whimsical in care. But there is a board on them:

  • Light dirt can be removed with a soap solution.
  • To return a presentable appearance will help milk. Preheat a little milk and soak a tampon in it. Wipe the problem areas. This will soften the skin and remove light dirt.
  • If the result does not impress you, repeat the procedure, but add some turpentine to the milk. After cleaning the jacket it should be smeared with a colorless cream and wipe with a dry cloth.
  • Remove dirt can be removed with makeup remover milk. Apply a little milk on the cotton pad and wipe the dirt spots. Remove the remnants of the product with a clean cloth.
  • Well cleanses and brightens the juice of lemon. Dampen with a lemon juice tampon, wipe all the problem areas.
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How to give a shine a jacket?

It is not enough to remove dirt from the leather product, it would be nice to also give the skin a shine. This can be done in several ways:

  • Egg yolk will cope with this task perfectly. It is whipped and applied with a swab, and then, without waiting for drying, wipe with a soft dry cloth. The protein fills small scratches and microcracks, gives the jacket a shine.
  • For giving shine to the skin, you can rub it with lemon juice. Cut the lemon in half and grate the surface with halves.
  • Instead of lemon, you can take the bulb, cut it in half and rub the skin.
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Special care for leather products

When buying a jacket, you can buy and care for it, there are a lot of them now. With these tools you can protect the skin from the sun, restore color and get rid of stains.

If you regularly clean, dry and air your clothes, you will keep it in perfect condition for a long time and save yourself the trouble of buying a new, so expensive item.