How to clean things from the skin?

Stain on leather clothes, shoes or furniture is not a reason to take the product in dry cleaning. Sometimes you can handle folk remedies that are sure to be found at home.

Leather product can be washed, as in a washing machine, or manually:

• About hand wash. Before you wash your favorite leather clothes with your hands, you should soak the thing in the basin with warm water for about fifteen minutes (do not add powder). After this, the dirt on the product is removed with a soft brush and soap. When the cleaning procedure is completed, you must rinse the clothes, shake (in any case, not squeeze, otherwise the thing will deteriorate), and then turn on the wrong side.

• About machine wash. Natural or artificial leather is best washed by hand, but you can do it in a typewriter, unless manufacturers exclude this method. It should be insured as much as possible, following the basic rules. The temperature should be set to 30-40 degrees, the spin and drying function must be disabled beforehand. You can not load into the machine leather thing with the rest of the clothes, even if they have the same shades, it is better to wash it separately.

Light and colored leather clothing is important to wash separately, both manually and in the car. For washing white products, it is better to give preference to the manual mode, it is not even necessary to use powder, you can (and even need to) limit your baby soap or shampoo.

To do this, warm water is poured into the basin, a little soap or shampoo is added, as well as ammonia (a couple of drops). After this solution is wetted with a sponge or a piece of cloth and polluted areas are gently wiped.

After the product is washed, it needs to be dried. This also applies to the case when washing was not required to remove the stain, and it was enough just to wipe the problem area with lemon juice or liquid ammonia. To dry leather goods, place them on hangers or place them on a horizontal surface. The room should be well ventilated.

On the leather product can be completely different types of spots - from iodine or potassium permanganate to the marker or gouache. And for each of them there are own means by which you can cope with the problem:

• Remove petroleum oil stains, as well as eliminate the paint will help gasoline or turpentine. But these substances should be used only when the material is dense. If the skin is thin, you can eliminate traces of oil with chalk or starch, sprinkling them on a greasy spot.
• Wash the pen or paste from the pen can be alcohol, vinegar or salt. It is necessary to apply the product to the contaminated areas, rub gently, then remove the remnants with a damp cloth.

• If there is a bloody stain on the leather product, then it can be removed with soap and water. The same method will help to get rid of stains after gum and other contaminants. If the blood dripped on the light product, then an aspirin tablet diluted in water will come to the rescue.

You may find the following recipes useful:

• Well removes dirt from genuine leather lemon juice. It is necessary to moisten them with a cotton pad and wipe the stain. With the help of lemon juice leather product will not only be clean, but also brilliant.
• Sometimes a simple soap solution with ammonia can handle. It is necessary to add one tablespoon of ammonia to the water with soap, wet the sponge or cloth with this solution and wipe the contaminated area, after the product should dry. To add shine - you can apply petroleum jelly in the skin in a small amount.
• If the contamination is large and deep, then it will not be possible to remove it with soap. A good way is alcohol or gasoline (purified). It is necessary to moisten a cotton pad in one or another tool and wipe the stain with it.

• In addition to lemon, an orange can come to help, or rather, its peel. She just rubbed the polluted area until the complete disappearance of the stain. This method is also good because the orange peel removes unpleasant odors from leather. This will be useful if before this cleaning was carried out using gasoline. The peel method is not suitable for white products.
• For light shades, cleansing with milk will be important. It is necessary to moisten the sponge in it and wipe the thing, then let it dry.
• To get rid of pollution on the skin can be with the help of chicken protein. It is whipped to a state of foam, then applied to the contaminated area, then erased. When a thing dries, there will be no trace of the stain.
• To wipe the dirt and dust from the leather thing, which has not been worn for a long time and become dry, you need to lubricate it with glycerin. After treatment, it will become soft, shiny and clean.

In the care of artificial leather has its own nuances. But still you can clean the spots with leather pants, jacket or coat at home, without resorting to the services of dry cleaning.

If it is undesirable to wash a genuine leather item in a typewriter, then leatherette is possible. But before you send the dress to the washing machine, you need to take a look at the label, where you can find information on whether this item can be washed. If not, you need to find another way to eliminate the stain. If washing is possible, the main thing is to remember that the washed product can never be squeezed out, otherwise there is a risk to spoil the thing irrevocably.

• A small stain can be removed, as is the case with natural leather, soapy water. It is necessary to simply wash their pants or skirt on the outside and inside. Aggressive substances are excluded, so turpentine or gasoline cannot be used.
• The next way will appeal to coffee drinkers. It is necessary to apply coffee grounds to the contamination. To do this, freshly ground coffee is diluted in water, mixed until a homogeneous mass is formed, then this gruel is applied to the stain, the product is gently rubbed inside or outside with a sponge (depending on how deep the stain is). After the procedure, the remains of the grounds are removed with a dry cloth (best flannel).
• To clean clothes from contamination, you can buy a special powder or spray, which is sold in stores, they can be cleaned and eco-leather.

Before you start cleaning shoes, you need to take into account the material itself:

• Patent leather boots will be cleaned differently than untreated leather sneakers.
• For patent leather shoes, the method with active washing out of stains will not work. It will be enough to moisten a cotton pad in water, wipe them, for example, shoes, and then remove the remnants of moisture with a dry cloth. It is necessary to rub carefully so that the lacquer matter is not damaged. In order for shoes to shine, as before, you need to use a special spray that is sold in the store.
• If the purchased leather shoes have not been pretreated, then you can get rid of dirt on it with the help of a soap solution.After washing off the soap residue it is important to dry the shoes. If there are stains on it, then you can eliminate them with vinegar mixed with water in a 1: 1 ratio.

• If your favorite leather shoes hit a greasy stain, then ordinary soda in the amount of one spoon will help to get rid of it. It is diluted in water and applied to the stain. With gentle movements, the dirt is rubbed off until foam appears, which is then removed with a dry cloth.
• Another popular recipe for removing stains from the skin is a cut onion, a part of which the product is wiped off until contamination disappears. Such a method, however, will be relevant only in the case of colored shoes.

Sometimes the stain has to be scrubbed from a leather bag and other accessories. Then The following methods are used:

• You can use the dishwashing detergent. With it, it is easy to scrub a backpack, cap, cord and other products, but only those that have a dark shade.
• You can get rid of tea or wine stains with household soap. But first you need to blot the dirt with a cloth so that the residue from a particular drink is absorbed there.
• If there are traces of the handle on the bag, then they will wipe off their alcohol solution, which is applied to a cotton pad. After completing the procedure, apply a thick cream to the leather product.

• But for light bags alcohol is not suitable, but the milk will do for removing makeup or soap solution. It is also possible to remove dirt from a light-colored leather product using an eraser.
• To make bags, belts and other accessories shine after cleaning the dirt, you can apply petroleum jelly or ordinary sunflower oil on them.
• Good eliminates stains from toothpaste with whitening effect. A rubbed area is rubbed on it, then after a while the remaining paste is removed with a damp cloth.
• If there is a scratch or crack on your favorite bag or backpack, you should buy a special cream in the store that matches the color and cover the defects with it. Such dyes are sold in the form of a spray, which is distributed evenly over the product, after which it must dry.

If this or that spot turned out to be on an expensive leather sofa or chairs, this does not mean that you need to pack all the furnishings in special covers in order to keep them intact. You can get rid of dirt on furniture. To do this, there are both special tools purchased in the store, and home methods:

• You can eliminate stains with the help of special wet wipes, which are impregnated with a special solution that allows you to scrub the pollution without harming the furniture itself. Also sold tools with air conditioning functions that not only remove stains, but also give the furniture a well-groomed appearance.
• You can do and what will be at hand. For example, an alcohol solution. They themselves rub off the spots, and after they disappear, these places are processed with glycerin so that the leather product does not dry out after using alcohol (it is known to have drying properties).
• Special care should be taken when cleaning leather furniture of light shades. It requires delicate handling. The best way to clean the stains is to cope with milk and chicken protein. The ingredients are mixed to form a foam, then the mixture is applied to a rag and rubbed over with a soiled surface.

• Another way to remove stains from light colored furniture is to use soap in combination with a fabric softener. The resulting solution is smeared areas of pollution to eliminate them. Then the surface is wiped with a wet wipe.
• Do not use aggressive substances (turpentine, bleach and other solvents) when cleaning stains from furniture. It is advisable not to moisten the sponge and cloth with tap water.

To prevent stains on leather furniture, you should be careful and periodically take care of the products, wiping them from dust.

To favorite leather products did not lose the original appearance, you must comply recommendations for their storage and purification:

• Any leather product must be properly stored. For this there are special covers for clothes.
• It is advisable to start cleaning things as soon as a stain appears.
• When cleaning (both natural and artificial leather) it is necessary to observe accuracy, strong friction is excluded, otherwise there is a great risk of scratches and other damage to your favorite clothes or accessories.

• The agent used for cleaning should be reliable and proven, it should be avoided too caustic and aggressive solvents.
• Once the product is cleaned, you can not immediately put it in the closet, first it must dry out.
• When cleaning, do not strongly wet the leather thing, as due to moisture it will stretch and deteriorate.
• If the outerwear made of leather gets wet in the street in the rain or snow, then at home it should be wiped with a dry cloth and wait until the product dries.

• Before you remove this or that leather product in the closet for the purpose of long-term storage, you need to clean it all contaminants, if any.
• It is important to constantly monitor the things of the skin, wash them with dust with a foam sponge or a damp cloth.
• It is necessary to iron a product from skin accurately, having turned it on seamy side. The temperature on the iron should not be high.

By following these simple recommendations, you can extend the life of a leather product for a long time.

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