How to Care for Your Leather Clothing

If your favorite way to stay warm when the weather cools down is by wrapping your fingers in  glitter leather gloves, zipping you body up in a leather jacket, and lacing up your leather boots, you also know this luxe material is intimidating to care for — until now. Here’s everything you need to know about keeping your leather clothing in tip-top shape — and cleaning up scratches and faded color after a little wear and tear (it happens

1. Protect your clothing before you wear it.

Prevention is the best form of protection, says Carolyn Forte, director of the Cleaning Lab at the Good Housekeeping Institute: “Treating leather and suede regularly helps them look their best.” Our recommendation? Try Kiwi’s Protect-All.

2. Then, reapply protection at least every three months.

Or more often if it’s a particularly nasty season (will the snow ever melt!?).

3. Select your cleaning method based on the item’s value.

While Forte says all leather is cleaned the same (more on that below) she doesn’t believe you should treat all items equally: “Smaller things are generally less expensive and easier to spot clean at home, but I wouldn’t do a jacket or pair of pants myself.” Instead, she says to take your more expensive items to a professional.

4. Take your time when going the DIY route.

With smooth leather, slow and steady wins the race. Carefully rub in mild soap or leather cleanser onto your item with a damp paper towel, let it sit several seconds, then wipe it clean. Let it air dry afterwards (away from direct heat) and use a leather conditioner to moisturize. However, at the first sign of color bleeding or fading you should stop what you’re doing and take your item to a pro.

5. And always spot-test before you start.

To make sure your cleaning products and method are a match with your leather, test it out on a hidden spot first — like inside the hand opening on a glove.

6. Don’t forget water drastically changes leather.

According to Forte, the biggest mistake people make when caring for leather clothing is getting it too wet, then rubbing the material too hard. “Leather is delicate, especially when wet and the color can come off easily,” Forte says, so don’t saturate or vigorously rub it while cleaning — and never immerse leather in water.

How to Paint Faux LeatherⅡ

By heartsun leather，a china leather factory

1 Clean the faux leather. Use a small amount of isopropyl alcohol to remove dust, dirt, grease, and wax from the faux leather. Dampen a cotton ball and wipe the entire surface of the material. A clean surface, free from dirt and grease, will allow the paint to strongly adhere to the faux leather.

2Use a paint palette. Prepare a paint palette so you can easily and efficiently access your desired paint colors as you work. You can buy a wooden or plastic artist’s palette at an arts and crafts store, or you can use a sheet of aluminum foil, a newspaper, or a magazine to house your paint.

3 Mix a small amount of acetone to your acrylic paint. Squeeze your desired paint colors onto your paint palette and add a few drops of acetone to the paint if you are working with acrylics. The acetone will thin the paint, making it smooth and easier to work with. Gently mix the paint and the acetone together with a small paintbrush. Be sure to only add a few drops or up to a teaspoon of acetone to your paint so that the paint does not become too watery.

4 Apply a base coat for large surfaces. If you are painting a large surface in a uniform color, you will want to apply an even base coat of paint to the surface. Use the paint you selected for your project and apply it to the surface. This is ideal if you are working with furniture or clothing.

5 Apply paint to one side of a sponge. Lightly press the sponge into the paint from your paint palette. Use long, vertical strokes to distribute the paint across the faux leather surface. Acrylic paint can dry rapidly, so you will need to work quickly if you are working with this medium. Focus on creating long strokes when painting a large surface to avoid creating streaks. If you are working on upholstery, plan to paint only one side at a time.

6 Allow the paint to dry. Before adding additional coats, the paint will need to dry completely. Place the item in a safe place where it won’t be disturbed, damaged, or moved. Wait for about 15 to 20 minutes for the coat to dry completely.

7 Enhance the color with additional layers of paint. After the first coat of paint has thoroughly dried, add another layer of paint to enhance the brightness and saturation of the color. As you add additional layers, be sure that the previous coat is dry before you apply another coating of paint.

How to Protect Leather Bag(2)

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Last week,we introduce eight suggestion to maintain leather bag,today,we will still write some tips about how to protect leather bag.

9. If leather wet accidentally, need dry drops and place on the shade to air dry. Avoid prolonged sun exposure or dry on the fire.

10. Before use of leather care products, first with a little products text on the bottom or inside of the bag is less conspicuous place, to be determined no problem and then use the entire leather.

11. Leather appear leather wrinkles, use the iron set to wool fabrics ironing temperature and repeat.

12. The leather hardware maintenance, should after use with a dry cloth. Such as micro-oxidation, may try to gently rub the flour or toothpaste M metal.

13. Leather finish, can wipe with a soft cloth.

14. maintenance glitter leather fabric, use leather care little for oil stick on a soft cloth, and then rub a little harder on the leather; matte leather maintenance, usually just wipe with a cloth, if serious dirt, you can try in a similar rubber eraser wipe gently removed.


15.Leather goods such as produce stains black spots, try to be the same color leather swab dipped in alcohol.

How to Protect Leather Bag

Today, the leather bag has become a travel essential thing, bag maintain become very important. Today, we will tell you how to protect bag.

1. Leather have strong absorption, should pay attention to pollution prevention, especially high-grade matte leather.

2. Once a week with a dry towel wrung wet to wipe lightly.

3. If there are stains on leather, with a clean damp sponge dipped in warm detergent wipe, and then let it dry before you use it.


4. As spilled drinks on the leather should be immediately with a clean cloth or sponge to the dry, and wipe with a damp cloth, let dry naturally, do not use hair dryer drum.

5. If stained with grease, it can be used to clean cloth, and the remaining by the natural dissipation or detergent to clean, do not use water to wish.

6. If found any holes, broken burning phenomenon, not unauthorized repair, contact the manufacturer as soon as possible.

7. Leather furniture will not exposure on the sun, it will lead to chapped and faded leather.


8. High-quality leather surface have minor injuries, can by the hand temperature and oil make off minor injuries fade.

How To Match The Color To The Leather Bag

classic color matching of black and white :
The color of black and white forever belongs to classical collocation and indispensable to the two kinds of color, black leather bag looks so noble, elegant, mysterious and somewhat sexy, and white is a symbol of purity, then black leather handbag can match the clothes are mostly gray, beige and blue, and white can be with all colors of clothes joker.

gorgeous color matching:
Red represents passion and romance, and orange yellow symbolizes the passion and vitality, they can all be paired with black, white, yellow, and blue color clothes; green leather female bag brand represents the color of nature, looks particularly cool and refreshing, full of life, the most appropriate and black and yellow collocation.

light color matching:
Gray is a mature neutral color, the basic can be used with all colors of clothes; and pink is the first no two of the female color, can match the color of clothing is generally white, black, dark shades of pink, rose.