Leather things perfectly look, but happens that they lose the stylish look. Dirt, stains and even the small cracks and zaloma appearing on outerwear from this natural material are capable to turn a fashionable jacket or a coat into an unattractive rag. Therefore, it is necessary to know how to clean a leather jacket in house conditions. The dry-cleaner will be many times more expensive, so why to waste money.
How to clean a leather jacket of the house from dirt?
For a start, let's understand that will be required for carrying out this operation. So, here than it is possible to clean a leather jacket from small pollution:
- soap solution;
- liquid ammonia;
- flannel napkin.
Wipe skin with solution of soap and water, then process it liquid ammonia. After that it is necessary only to wipe it with a flannel and all. This method perfectly helps to cope with small pollution. Experts recommend to carry out such cleaning at the end of a season before removing a thing for the summer period.
Too often it is impossible to use such method. It can cause material damage.
How to clean a leather jacket from salinity?
Similar unattractive stertost appear usually on a collar, near pockets or on clothes sleeves. If spots still rather not big, it is possible to use also the way described above. But, if the thing was not cleaned long ago, or it too dirty, it is necessary to apply a method which will help, both to clean a collar of a leather jacket, and to remove obvious spots on outerwear. Take a piece of cotton wool and moisten it in alcohol. Wipe with this tampon a collar or the place of pollution. After that take one more sponge and moisten it with lemon juice. They also should process a collar or a spot. Further wipe the place which was exposed to cleaning by glycerin. It will prevent skin cracking which can happen because of use of aggressive means, such as alcohol and juice of a lemon.
How to clean a leather jacket of the house from fat, paint and a mold?
This procedure will require either gasoline, or turpentine. Just process the moistened piece of cotton wool or fabric the place of pollution and carefully wipe a dry napkin.
It is necessary to know that products from too thin skin cannot be processed in such a way. It is possible just to spoil clothes. On it there will be a spot of the faded skin which will be too difficult to be painted over independently.
Also experts recommend to carry out the small test at first. To process the small site of a jacket which not to be in too foreground, gasoline or turpentine and to look whether skin after influence of the mentioned chemical means will be spoiled.
There is one more method which it is possible to try to clean leather things. Take usual white chalk and dissolve it in water to consistence of gruel. Apply the received mix on a spot and leave for 3-5 hours. After this time, erase cretaceous gruel the napkin moistened in water.
Precautionary measures
If you decided to use gasoline, alcohol, sal ammoniac or turpentine for cleaning of a leather thing, it is necessary to follow certain rules. Of course, you do not bring fire to easily flammable substances and you do not clean clothes near an open source of fire, for example, you should not do it in kitchen about the gas stove.
After cleaning take out a jacket or a coat on a balcony for airing or at least open a window leaf and hang up a thing near it. Otherwise on clothes there will be an unpleasant smell.
And, be surely convinced that removed in inaccessible for children and the safe place all listed above liquids.