Knowledge is never wasted. And your acquired skills in cleaning leather will save you troubles and unneccessary expenses not once in your life. Leather protection is a very delicate matter. You should know the ways of cleaning your leather belongings, or you might ruin them. It's a crying shame to throw away beautiful garments because of poor habits. Fist of all, you should be sure of the leather type your take care after. There are five of them: 1. Natural leather; 2. Natural leather with additional impregnation; 3. Slightly painted leather; 4. Painted leather with strong furnish in draft; 5. Chibouque. All types of leather require regular cleaning and care. It means that it is necessary to Regular brushing of leather, cautious use from time to time of a vacuum cleaner. Any type of leather should be protected from sunlight; otherwise, it will lose the color and dry up. Leather, animal skin that has been chemically modified to produce a strong, flexible material that resists decay. Almost all the world output of leather is produced from cattle hides and the skins of calves, goats, kids, sheep, and lambs. Other hides and skins used include those of the horse, pig, kangaroo, deer, seal, and walrus, and of various reptiles. Leather is used for a wide range of products. The variety of skins and the way they are processed can produce leather as soft as cloth or as hard as a shoe sole. Cattle hides, the major raw material for leather production, range from being lightweight and supple to tough and strong. Calfskin is lighter and finer-grained, and after conditioning is used for making fine leather. Since ancient times human beings made leather and learned cleaning leather. If natural leather, natural leather with additional impregnation and slightly painted leather become soiled, cleaning leather can be done with the soap, which does not contain alkali and boiled water. Washing should be done from seam to seam always (and not just on a stain), and with plenty of water to make sure that there were no dirt residue on leather after the process of cleaning leather. Besides, cleaners and creams for leather should be used on a regular basis. It is possible to use a napkin for cleaning and conditioning, alongside with applying a brush or a vacuum cleaner. Not every cleaning stuff can be used for prptection of leather, sprays may be of some use too. Some pieces of advice on protection leather further below. The marks of cola, wine, schnapps and juiced on the smooth leather should be blotted out at once with a paper or kitchen towel, washed out with distilled water and dried up. Depending on the circumstances, you should repeat the process with the use of soap not containing alkali. In process of washing, one should go from seam to seam always, instead of washing only a place of pollution.Stains of oil, chocolate, ointment or fat on the smooth leather are to be removed by the tip of the blunt knife. Then, cleaning leather is done with the paper napkin and wash it up with distilled water. Any part that remained in leather cannot always be cleaned off completely.Nonetheless, a stain of fat may disappear within a week by itself, due to respiratory activity of leather. As for fat patches on rough leather, it is possible to remove dirt from leather by the tip of the blunt knife. After that protection leather is done with a paper napkin and washing up with distilled water. When leather is dried, use the special leather cleaner. Remaining fat would disappear from leather a bit later. The stains of medicines and inks on the rough leather. Dirt spots of medicine and of ink cause biggest problems for cleaning leather. Yet, you may search help from professionals, in eliminating damages to your garment. Using our friendly instructions will make your leather clothes look beautiful and prolong their service life as long , as you enjoy them!