The leather furniture needs to be taken care of as the skin of the hands or face. It is a natural product and requires constant moisturizing and tendering. These procedures will ensure a long usage of the leather furniture. The biggest enemy of leather is dry air which makes the leather fragile and cracked. This mostly happens in rooms where the air humidity is lower than 50%. Since we don’t always have the influence on the air humidity, the easiest way of providing the proper humidity to the leather furniture is a appropriate caring.
The leather furniture should be maintained with a special moisturizer, best for this is a stearin cream. The frequency of moisturizing depends on the intensity of usage.
If you use the leather furniture every day and additionally the apartment is warm you should maintain the leather furniture every two months. If you use that furniture quite rarely every four months will do.
The luxurious leather furniture should also be regularly wiped with a soft, dump cloth, preferably a flannel one, and vacuumed. The vacuum’s suction will, similarly to a cosmetic procedure, clean pores in the leather and give it a clean appearance.
The maintenance products of unverified producers shouldn’t be used on the leather furniture because it may be destroyed that way. Don’t buy any chemicals containing paraffin, dissolvent’s, varnish, turpentine, or alcohol because all of these substances destroy the natural, thin protective layer of the leather, exposing the leather furniture to discoloration.
The leather furniture requires also a proper cleaning. The light color leather is more exposed to getting dirty, so if you have little children think over whether it is worth to spend a lot of money to buy the leather furniture. Solvents, spirits, and acetone, or a cleaning powder shouldn’t be used for cleaning the leather furniture, which shouldn’t be also ironed, blow-dried, or dried by the air-heater.
Fresh stains are best to be wiped off immediately with a white paper towel. It is not wise to wait until the substance is absorbed by the leather. The paper towel will additionally absorb the moist of stain. If the stains doesn’t come off the surface should be cleaned up with a proper cleaner.
The fat stains are best to be immediately wiped off with a dry cloth and left to dry up. The fat shouldn’t be cleaned with water or any cleaners. Remnants of the fat stain should sink into the leather without leaving any stains.
For cleaning the leather furniture is best to use a little moist flannel cloth. If the furniture is very dirty, covered in dust, it is stained with wine or markers it may be cleaned with water and soap. The flannel cloth dip in water with soap and wipe the furniture, if after the first cleaning stains are still visible the procedure should be repeated one more time and then the spot should be cleaned with a sponge dipped in stearin.
It is best to avoid clothes, plaids, blankets that stain the leather. Cleaning it of the light leather is practically impossible.
