How to clean a light leather sofa at home?

Genuine leather is a fastidious material in everyday life. Leather products require care and a careful attitude. When buying new upholstered furniture from such material, you first need to find out how to take care of it and clean it from dirty stains. Today we’ll talk about how to clean light leather sofas.

A special pride of every economic person is a white leather sofa. But it can be leatherette. Light material looks much more colorful than black, but more easily contaminated. In addition, many stains are much more difficult to remove from such a coating. To do this, use the following methods.

If you bought a light leather sofa for the first time, you should buy together with it what will really turn out to clean it. You will need these detergents and accessories:

• Detergents for cleaning the skin. They can remove a wide variety of stains. These products are manufactured under the brand name Leather Ultra Clean, Flat, HG, Bagi, Astonish and others. The mixture is sprayed for a short time on a blurred surface, and eliminated without the use of water;
• a special ointment for the skin of the sofa, which will saturate the upholstery and protect it from the adverse effects of the sun and fever, especially during the summer season;

• a gentle brush with which you can comfortably rub the preparations into the upholstery of the sofa;
• napkins or soft rags that remove traces of cleaning agents. They carefully apply the cream;
• spray bottle in which you can pour detergent.Many substances can be bought in jars with a special nozzle.

The initial cleaning of a light sofa makes more sense instantly, as soon as the furniture is brought home. Squeeze a little cleanser onto the brush and gently brush it over the surface of the upholstery. You do not need to rub it heavily - the tool will certainly work without rubbing it too much, and the brush can damage the base of the sofa. It is necessary to wait for some time, approved by the manufacturer (mainly 20-50 seconds), and then remove traces of the detergent composition with a napkin. Visually divide the sofa into squares, since it is not recommended to process the entire structure at once. Continue to clean until the entire sofa has been cleaned.

After 4-7 minutes, when the furniture dries a little, it must be smeared special ointment. Squeeze a little funds on the sponge and smear the upholstery of the sofa. The ointment is soaked in about 5-9 minutes, leaving a protective coating. After this time, you can already sit on the sofa. In the future, this composition will stop the contamination of the furniture surface and it will be much easier for you to remove particles of food, juice, tea, grease stains, paste, as well as dust and dirt from genuine leather or leatherette.

Antique leather furniture cleaning products are more economical than highly professional. But we must not forget that their use will be a more complex process, and in some cases - not very successful:

• milk. Cow milk can wipe off the dirt that has appeared, but first it needs to be heated a little. Then a piece of cotton wool soaked in it, wiped the contaminated place, and in the end it is wiped with a dry cloth;
• vinegar. The composition of vinegar can cope with stains on a bright sofa. However, it must be used carefully, slightly soaking a piece of cotton wool as part of it. First, you should try the solution on the barely visible area of ​​the product;

• gel for dishes. This tool can be used to clean a light sofa made of leatherette or eco leather. Pollution is wiped with a sponge or a delicate fleece / microfiber cloth soaked in a washing gel. Traces are cleaned with a wet rag;
• ammonia. To cope with the appeared traces on light furniture in the forces and ammonia. However, you need to use it carefully, since with such a treatment the skin is able to dry out and crack. This product is used only for white or milky skin. When cleaning a colored sofa, ammonia can harm the surface.

A mixture of home soap or detergent will help in cleansing a light sofa from pollution. It is used for simple spots. For this:

• stir ordinary soap or dish detergent in warm water;
• in order to fix the result, add ammonia;
• thus, prepare a concentrate of 0.5 tbsp warm water, 1 tbsp ammonia and 10 g soap;
• moisten any sponge or fleecy rag and gently wipe the resulting solution on the surface of the product;

• work without pressure, because any skin can withstand friction;
• Wipe the rest of the composition with a clean and dry rag;
• then wipe the sofa material with a soft cloth that absorbs any remaining moisture.

After washing, the sofa acquires a unique gloss and shine, as if it had just been bought in a store, so the cleanliness of furniture must be constantly monitored. If contamination has appeared on the surface of the product, then get rid of it soon.

For different types of stains, different cleaning methods are suitable. For example, it is not worth it to wipe the surface of the furniture from drops of blood with warm or hot water, because this technology will give the upholstery a scarlet tone.After that, it will be almost impossible to wash it, so you need to know some nuances so as not to increase the size of the stain and not allow it to spread. You must do the following:

• fresh traces of blood, very easy to wash with cool water;

• a trace of fat should be sprinkled with starch, and then wipe dry with a clean cloth;
• in case you accidentally hooked light skin with a pen, marker, felt-tip pen or paint, it is possible to wash it off by putting tape on a damaged place and slowly remove it. At the end, you need to wipe the furniture;
• stains from food or drinks can easily be removed with a soapy solution or a weak composition of vinegar, diluted in heated water. Once the upholstery has been cleaned of dirt, wipe it thoroughly with a damp cloth.

Also, many users are faced with the problem of spots from green. This substance, when not carefully applied, often drips onto the surface of any product. When treating various wounds, there is often no time to monitor that this liquid does not appear on clothing or furniture. Even a small drop of green on your bright sofa will be noticeable. If this just happened, then you can remove it with ammonia, peroxide or soda. But what if the green spots are already old?

It is more difficult to cope with such pollution, but it is still possible to rectify the situation. In this case, it will help salicylic alcohol. Treat them with the surface of the skin, and then wipe it. If this method does not work, then it is advisable to use ordinary soap. It is necessary to rub their surface for a long time and well. Similarly, light from the sun can help you. Prolonged exposure to a contaminated area under sunlight will help to remove it.

When cleaning furniture from stains, you should carefully consider the elements of furniture made of wood and plastic. It is possible to completely remove the green only from the varnish surface. In other cases, use grinding.

If the color of the sofa to the spots was snow-white, then White Spirit will help. This solution must be used very carefully. You can also get rid of greenback by the following methods:

• a mixture of washing powder. You can try to wash the stain with special tools that are found in every home, for example, laundry detergent. To do this, take a not very large container and sprinkle powder into it. Then we add enough water to get a dense mixture of a creamy texture. The resulting product is evenly applied to the surface of the material. You need to wait 20 to 30 minutes until the upholstery becomes dry. After that, the powder stained with green paint is removed with a brush, and the remaining particles are completely erased with a wet cloth;
• lemon juice. Lemon juice can be used to remove greens from furniture. For this purpose, lemon is bought, which is peeled from the skin and then crushed with a juicer. If suddenly she is not on the farm, in this case the juice is squeezed out with a spoon (taking seeds together with this). The resulting composition is passed through cheesecloth, folded twice. In the resulting juice, moisten a cotton swab. Gently in a circular motion, apply the acidic composition to the green spot, then you need to wait a bit (at least 50 minutes) until the pollution becomes lighter. Dip the gauze in a soap solution and completely remove the lemon particles from the leather surface.

• baking soda. Wash the brilliant green can baking soda. She will definitely be found in everyone in the kitchen. Put it on the trail and wipe it well. Soda will draw in all the unpleasant odors and dirt itself. This will help clean the surface of the furniture.

Due to the high cost of genuine leather, you need to take care of it regularly, as well as handle it carefully and gently. When eating, do not sit on a leather sofa so as not to stain it. You also need to forbid all your pets to run on such light furniture so that scratches and holes do not appear on it.

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