Leather long since is considered universal material for production of outerwear. First, it is natural, i.e. breathes, and allows to breathe to body. Secondly, it is strong, durable and becomes soiled a little. Thirdly, it is multipurpose, i.e. protects from wind, rain, cold. However skin is not eternal and demands leaving. After long the socks appear scrapes, dirt.
Instruction
1. Correctly to clean leather thing, it is necessary to know physical properties of skin. Skin consists of fibers of high-molecular protein of collagen which are collected in bunches and are bound. It does skin strong. At manufacture, leather is processed the tannins and special structures giving it softness. But in the depth of carried there are vegetable and animal fats which give it elasticity. When washing by the powders and soap containing alkali, the fattening substances are washed away, skin to become dry, dim and fragile.
2. According to this information it is also necessary to make cleaning of products from skin. First of all, do not neglect umbrella at walk in the rain even if on you leather jacket. At its blotting, tannins are washed away. Immediately dry jacket toilet paper or dry towels, impregnate skin with vaseline, glycerin or castor oil.
3. Shabby places of skin grease with special paste which can be prepared independently: to melt 9 g of beeswax in bowl, stirring slowly, to add 16 ml of turpentine of 1.5 g of carbonate of potassium (as emulsifier), to bring to temperature of 60-70 0 C and to add 40 ml of water. To cool, store quickly in the fridge.
4. Follow the rules of care for leather products, update them by means of natural components from time to time. Wipe skin with the beaten egg white or the rag, wetted in glycerin. In general, skin loves procedures with addition of greasy substances, milk, essential oils, skin creams. Some advanced fans of leather things, especially light, clean them by means of normal make-up remover milk.
5. But if the leather thing really needs washing, then experts advise to erase it so: sprinkle the dirtiest places means for preliminary washing or removal of dirty spots from woolen things, evenly pound on surface, put in the washing machine. Erase in the manual mode cold water or at temperature of 300 With with liquid means for wool washing
6. For rinsing fill in bag of the concentrated milk of 7% of fat content in the relevant office of the loading chamber to restore the washed-up fat.
7. Take out product from the machine without extraction. Once again rinse manually in cold water with addition of acetic essence. Water has to be acidic. It will restore also tannins of leather product.
8. You dry the washed leather jacket in shadow, in well aired place. Spread out it to towel, let's flow down to water. Change towel several times. In thing it is also possible to put towel for fast extraction of water from skin. Almost dry, volgly, leather product is necessary promyat in hands. Apply on hands cosmetic milk for body and properly knead leather thing that it remained soft and not to deformirovalasposla of full drying wipe jacket with castor oil or process special means for skin.