How to clean a leather jacket at home from dirt?

For many years, a leather jacket remains at the peak of popularity, because it is durable, reliable and comfortable, looks good with any clothes. If the skin is properly looked after, then it will last for many years without losing its appearance. But like other clothes, she needs care, because over time various kinds of pollution and stains appear on her. How to clean the skin of the jacket so that it does not lose its properties and good appearance? You can, of course, use the services of dry cleaning, but there are many folk methods for how to clean a leather jacket at home from dirt.

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Regular care

First of all, leather clothes cannot be washed in a washing machine. Even if someone tried it and it worked, then it’s not worth the risk. It is not recommended to wet the skin strongly. From this, it can become deformed, become rude and its entire appearance will serve you as an eternal reproach.

Important! Material can become rougher even after you have been exposed to heavy rain or snow. For this case, we are ready for useful tips in the article “How to make skin soft?”.

But what to do in this case, because it is necessary to somehow get rid of pollution?

Minor impurities are not difficult to remove:

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

Important! So that the skin after wet cleaning does not become hard and rough, it must be lubricated with baby cream, glycerin or castor oil.You can also look from our separate review and use as necessary not only on a jacket, but also on shoes, a dress or even upholstery special leather cleansers.

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How to deal with salinity?

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

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

1. Straighten the collar, wipe it with a cotton pad soaked in alcohol.
2. After - grate with lemon juice.
3. 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 prevent the collar from getting dirty quickly, you should wear a scarf or neck scarf. By the way, with such an affordable accessory you can perfectly diversify your everyday look. To do this, use our selection of ideas and ways, how to tie a scarf.

Wipe the collar once a week with a damp cloth soaked in a solution of any detergent.

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How to remove stains?

Unfortunately, no one is immune from the appearance of various kinds of stains on clothes. Depending on the type of stain, a means is also selected for its removal.

Greasy spots:

• Put a paper towel on the stain area and iron it with a hot iron. After that, you need to wipe the jacket with glycerin.
• Fat can be eliminated with solvents - refined gasoline is excellent. If there is no gasoline, turpentine will do.

Important! After processing with such means, a specific smell remains, so the jacket will have to be hung out for some time in fresh air.

• Some particularly capricious products must 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 until gruel is formed, smeared on the stain. After a few hours, the remnants of the product are removed from the skin.

Important! Before using the solvent, test it on a small inconspicuous area of ​​the product.

Paint spots

It is very difficult to remove such stains. You can use gasoline, acetone or massage oil.

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

Salt stains

They form after skin contact with rain or snow. You can simply wipe them with vinegar. Dampen the swab in vinegar and wipe the stains well.

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

Pen marks

If ink traces magically appear on the jacket, you can wipe them with alcohol. If there is no alcohol at hand, you can salt the jacket. Moisten a little salt and gruel the stain. Then wipe the area with a sponge moistened in kerosene and brush with glycerin or a special emollient cream. Then wipe the area with a sponge moistened in kerosene and brush with glycerin or a special emollient cream.

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

Scratch

If scratches and cracks appear on your favorite jacket that spoil the look, they can be removed with glycerin:

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

Important! Glycerin will fill in small cracks, and your jacket will again have a presentable look. Completely remove all signs of scratches and other similar defects will help special skin cream.

Mold stains

How to clean a leather jacket from mold? Refined gasoline will help us. Simple gasoline that motorists have is not suitable here. Dampen a cloth or swab in gasoline and wipe the problem areas.

Traces of blood

If blood has got on a leather product, you need to act immediately until the blood is absorbed into the skin:

1. In this case, you need to wipe the stains with a rag soaked in soapy water. You can try to remove the blood stain with aspirin.
2. Crush the tablet, soak in water and apply gruel on the stain.

Excess fluid can be removed with a tissue.

Bad smell:

• The skin absorbs smells well, if there is an unpleasant odor, for example, tobacco, you can get rid of it with the help of orange peels. This will not only remove all odors, but also make the skin soft, clean, give it a shine.

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

• You can get rid of the unpleasant odors of sweat and tobacco using soda. Make a soda solution, pour it into a spray bottle and treat it with the product.
• To remove odors, you can spread the jacket on a horizontal surface and cover it with ground coffee. After 12-24 hours, shake off the powder and the odors disappear.

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How to care for a light leather jacket?

Jackets made of fair skin are more capricious in grooming. But there is a right to them:

• Light dirt can be removed with a soapy solution.
• Milk will help restore a presentable appearance. Heat a little milk and soak a swab in it. Wipe problem areas. This will soften the skin and remove light impurities.
• If the result did not impress you, repeat the procedure, but add a little turpentine to the milk. After cleaning the jacket, you need to spread it with a colorless cream and wipe it with a dry cloth.
• You can remove dirt using makeup remover milk. Put a little milk on a cotton pad and wipe the dirt. Remove any remaining product with a clean cloth.
• It cleans and brightens lemon juice. Soak a swab in lemon juice, wipe all the problem areas.

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How to shine a jacket?

It is not enough to remove dirt from a leather product; it would also be good to give the skin a shine. There are several ways to do this:

• The egg yolk will perfectly cope with this task. Beat it and apply with a swab, and then, without waiting for drying, wipe it with a soft dry cloth. Protein fills small scratches and microcracks, gives the jacket a shine.
• To give shine to the skin, you can rub it with lemon juice. Cut the lemon in half and rub the surface into halves.
• Instead of lemon, you can take the onion, cut in half and rub the skin.

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