In order for them to serve for a long time and remain in their original form, you need to know the features and order of how to care for leather gloves and use them correctly in practice.
Proper care of leather gloves
Natural leather requires care. And not periodically, but daily!
Every day, gloves come into contact with dust. Therefore, it must also be cleaned daily. To do this, just wipe the gloves with a soft cloth and go over the seams with a not too hard brush. By getting used to this simple procedure, you can save yourself from the need for more serious cleaning.
While protecting us from moisture, the gloves themselves do not tolerate it quite well . And even the water-repellent composition covering the skin is short-lived. Therefore, if the product happens to get wet, you need to put it on your hand, blot it with an absorbent cloth, then dry it naturally, but not in the sun. And drying with heat can ruin the skin .
Sometimes wet cleaning is also required: to do this, put a glove on your hand, quickly wipe it with a cotton pad in a soapy solution, then with a damp and dry rag. The skin should not get wet through !
Decorative cosmetics and perfumes are contraindicated for leather items - stains and stains will be difficult to remove. And of course, you need to protect the item from mechanical damage - cracks and abrasions cannot be masked.
When putting gloves away for storage, you need to:
- clean;
- soften with special means;
- wrap in paper and put in a box.
Important! When storing, use products against moths and skin beetles! Don't like chemistry? Wormwood, tansy, and lavender are suitable.
Maintaining an Elegant Look
It is necessary to properly care for leather gloves every day, because they are very capricious in this regard, sensitive to strong chemicals, which can leave stains, stains on them, or even discolor dark leather. If the skin has wrinkled and become hard, a solution of castor oil will help you. You need to moisten a cloth with it and wipe the surface with an extremely quick but at the same time gentle movement. Otherwise, unsightly stains may form that cannot be removed at home. After two hours, your gloves will look shiny, soft and elegant.
If, after improper storage or washing, leather gloves shrink and begin to pinch you, you need to wrap them in a damp, wrung-out rag, and then put them on your hand so that they take on the shape you need. In this position, you need to let them dry, just remember that you should not dry them near the radiator or in direct sunlight.
Low-fat milk works well for cleaning white or beige gloves, which are very sensitive to chemicals. Pour one glass of warm milk and pour into it one teaspoon of regular baking soda, which housewives always have on hand, do not forget to mix everything well. Wipe your leather gloves with the resulting solution and see how they acquire a soft structure and snow-white appearance before your eyes.
How to clean leather of different colors?
Black items can be easily cleaned with a solution of ammonia applied to a cotton pad.
Do you have stubborn stains? Mix two parts gasoline with part turpentine and wipe with this solution. Colored gloves can be tidied up using:
- bread crumb soaked in water;
- beaten egg white.
In both cases, after treatment you need to wipe the skin with a slightly damp cloth .
Advice! For colored leather items, they sell structure-restoring agents that mask microcracks. Don't neglect them!
White skin requires special care, which is what the creators of special shampoos thought about. But you can also get by with the proven method - wipe the skin with halves of a cut onion, then treat with egg white, and after ten minutes wipe with foam rubber. The stain can be removed with water and soda or a mixture of magnesium carbonate and gasoline, leaving it to dry and brushing it off with a brush.
Important! Hydrogen peroxide is absolutely not suitable for cleaning gloves!
Specialist help
If the product does not respond to either traditional methods or professional sprays and foams, then you should contact a specialist. Some owners of leather goods do not even risk affecting the leather with anything on their own, but immediately run to the dry cleaner.
It is worth choosing one whose list of services includes processing of leather accessories and clothing. Professionals will work with the product using proven technologies. Unfortunately, such services are not cheap. Therefore, this method is the most effective and high-quality, but inaccessible.
How to soften new shoes to avoid the formation of calluses? To do this, you can contact a shoemaker's shop. The shoemaker has in his arsenal special means with which he treats shoes in order to then place lasts in them. This method carries some risk - under the influence of the pads, the seams may burst and the product may deteriorate.
Glove cleaner recipes
Sometimes radical cleaning of very dirty gloves is required. Then they will almost need washing, although leather is not usually washed. Let's try to save the thing. To do this, we follow two principles:
- contact with water should be as short as possible - wash quickly and carefully;
- To avoid deformation, you need to wash the gloves while wearing them.
The procedure should resemble washing your hands: after lathering with light movements, lightly wipe the entire surface, then rinse.
Advice! If it is heavily soiled, it is better not to rub the skin until there are holes - the dirt will rub in more strongly. Just repeat the soaping and rinsing procedure several times.
After washing and rinsing the product, without removing it from your hands, pat it dry with a thick, dry towel and lay it out to dry for a short time. Away from the heat source! When they are dry, we dry them on a mold - purchased plastic or made independently from rigid wire.
For prevention
Products made from genuine leather are not only expensive, but also require careful care. It is much easier to prevent troubles than to spend money and effort fighting them. It is impossible to protect shoes or gloves from street dust and dirt, and contact with road reagents in winter is completely inevitable. But no one has yet canceled the basic rules for caring for shoes and other leather products:
- If the skin does get wet, it needs time to dry completely - a day or two. When it comes to shoes, it is better to have two or three pairs in reserve, and while one pair is “resting”, wear another.
- Dirt and dust must be removed immediately upon arrival from the street. If you leave this activity “for later,” then within a day the dirt may be absorbed. Then even professional products will be powerless, and all that remains is to mask the stains.
- Shoes must be put on only with the help of a spoon, the laces must be unlaced, and the zipper must be unzipped all the way. You should not save time and neglect these tips, otherwise the shoes will quickly become deformed and lose their original appearance.
- If the products require repair, you must contact a specialist immediately.
- Care products for shoes or other products must be selected carefully. It is important to consider your skin type and manufacturers' recommendations. There are no truly high-quality universal products.
What to lubricate with?
To restore elasticity to treated skin, take:
- glycerin – for fair skin;
- castor oil – for dark skin;
- baby cream;
- Vaseline - for anyone.
Apply one of the products to a soft cloth, gently wipe, knead slightly, saving it from shrinking.
Important! It is better not to use sunflower oil to care for gloves.
How to treat it after drying?
Using a soft, dry cloth, polish the leather until it shines with a matte shine.
Take note
If leather gloves are stored properly, they will always remain soft, without shrinking or cracking. To do this, you need to properly care for them; you can store them in two ways: in a box or in a cloth bag. If your gloves have lost their softness and shape after improper use or storage, you can resort to castor oil.
If washed properly, they will never shrink or lose their softness; to do this, wash them in warm soapy water and only by hand. You can add a couple of drops of regular glycerin, which will add shine and softness, then dry it in a wet terry towel.
To properly care for leather gloves, you don’t have to go to the laundromat; just read the list of products that can remove dirt. Remember that before purchasing a stain remover, you must read the instructions on how to use it correctly, otherwise the high concentration may damage the gloves. You need to constantly take care, especially in the autumn-spring period, when there is a lot of dirt outside; in winter, do not dry it near the radiator, they can shrink.
How to get rid of old stains?
As a rule, in this case it is difficult to remember the origin of the contamination. Ammonia can help , but not in its pure form: for one part of the substance we take four parts of water, and wipe the dirty areas with the resulting mixture. gasoline is used for cleaning , but thin skin may not survive such care. It's better to test in a small area.
Advice! It is also better to try store-bought products on a tiny area of skin - sometimes the effect can be unpredictable.
a mixture of lemon juice and milk helps . After cleaning the skin with this composition, wipe the gloves with a damp cloth and dry them.
DIY massage gloves for children
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Goose fat
Our grandparents also knew how to soften the leather on shoes - with the help of goose fat. You need to cut out the fat from the goose, melt it in a frying pan and let it cool. Lard is formed, which needs to be rubbed on the skin until the fat stops being absorbed. If you believe the reviews, then even old chrome boots can be revived in this way. Experienced shoemakers also use goose fat.
Unfortunately, the availability of this method can be challenged - you need to have a goose on hand. If you don’t have it at home, you can buy it in a store or market. But the amount of time spent and the cost of the bird is comparable to professional skin care products.
Storage methods
There are several ways to store gloves:
- In the belt compartment: purchase a special case-belt for gloves and use it to hang it.
- Using the ring clip to hang hats and towels, you can hang them in the belt compartment, on a coat rack in your closet, or on a coat hook in your hallway.
- You can first hide the gloves in a fabric bag and then hang them up.
- In an organizer with pockets (textile, not film), which is hung on the door or on a hanger in the closet.
- Choose a cardboard box, plastic or wicker basket and store directly in it.
Organizer with pockets
Tips and tricks
- Before putting the gloves away for a long time, you must treat them with a special cream , but if this is not available, then you can use regular pharmaceutical glycerin or petroleum jelly, or a simple silicone hand cream will also work. This will not only maintain softness, but also avoid unnecessary drying out. Before applying, you need to try the product on a small, inconspicuous area of the gloves, for example on the lapel.
- You should avoid interaction of gloves with women's cosmetics : if it gets on the skin, it will be very difficult to revive it. If a stain from eye shadow or lipstick has already appeared, then ordinary micellar water can help remove it - this is a universal cosmetic solvent. Then you need to rinse the area of contamination following the rules.
- If you need to speed up the drying of gloves, a terry towel : you can wring out the gloves in it by twisting them together with the towel into a tube.
