Hostess: How to soften the surface of leather products

How to soften the skin? Softening natural skin at home. How to soften leather shoes and belts. Tips for softening new leather shoes

Leather clothes, shoes and accessories are practical, comfortable, and also please us with our good appearance. In addition, they do not require complex care and are ready to serve for many years. Those good qualities that leather products are shown in the sock, they are obliged to the fact that the manufacturer impresses them with a water repellent.

But if you allow the rod of the product, in which the water is leaning into the inner layer of the skin, then after drying, it will completely lose its magnificent initial look, and strongly hardens.

It also happens if the leather things were kept for a long time with unsuitable conditions, for example, in the attic or in non-refined storerooms. Of course, spoiled things are already impossible to wear and the only thing that remains is to throw them away. However, you can try to restore the skin.

In many dry-cleaners are taken for such a recovery, so if the thing has deteriorated quite expensive, it will be better to contact the specialists. Although you can try to cope at home. Because there are quite a few ways how to soften even old skin. 

How to soften at home natural skin?

In order to soften the skin at home:

• castor oil;
• baby oil;
• Children’s cream;
• Colorless shoe cream containing beeswax;
• milk with good fat. 

One of the most budget ways – softening with the help of the Caster. To do this, in the pharmacy you need to buy several bubbles of medicine. Then apply oil on a rag and carefully go through the restored thing. The impregnation time on average is 8-12 hours and, if necessary, the procedure can be repeated 1-2 times. After the thing is soaked «Healing» to the means, it is left for two days for the final absorption of the Caster, and then it can be worn.

Some note that after the impregnation procedure, the thing can make a weak smell of the Caster and advise to rehabilitate the product to use the means more expensive, but with a more pleasant smell. For example, you can use any baby hygienic oil to restore softness. These two products are perfectly suitable for black and dark brown things, since when recovering oils on an oil or well-based, the skin color almost always darkens for several tones.

For bright or colored leather things advised to use in another way. To do this, you need children’s cream and shoe colorless cream. They are mixed in equal proportions, while traceing to the composition of the shoe cream necessarily entered the bee wax. The resulting mixture is applied to the product and left until it absorbs. 

Good for skin softening belt, bags or any other product has proven itself and a mixture of fatty cow’s milk and shoe cream. At the same time, cream, as in the previous case, takes a colorless with wax content.

First, mix the milk and cream to the consistency of the liquid sour cream. Then the resulting mixture thoroughly wake the surface of your product and leave for several hours to impregnate. Before using things, remove the remnants of the means and wipe the product with a dry clean cloth. 

Thinking out than you can soften the crying skin, never use the means like glycerin or sunflower oil. Sunflower oil, at first glance, gives an excellent effect, but over time it dries and the skin becomes even harder than before processing.

But the glycerin is rather cunning due to the fact that he penetrates inside the skin molecules and changes its structure, making a thing more fragile and fragile. Products treated with glycerin, of course, become soft, but with constant and frequent use, quickly rush and crack. 

How to soften leather shoes?

Almost everyone came across problems that give new shoes to the legs of their owners. It rubs the skin to calluses or wounds, strongly compresses the legs or literally crashes into the foot.

To bring a new pair every time from the last collections not to feel the character from «Mermaid», It is worth using some tips on the softening of a new leather shoe:

• It turns out that the service for unblinking new shoes is provided by almost all repair shops. To do this, they handle shoes with means for stretching and softening the skin, and leave it to dry on special pads. This is an inexpensive service and it can always be repeated at home;
• In order to soften the shoes at home, apply a special means for softening and, putting on the feet thick socks, pass through the house for several hours. 

How to soften leather shoes with screwdrivers

Soften shoes, like any other product, for example, leather belt, can be used with castor or linen oil. It should be noted that Castor can slightly stretch your shoes, and after the flaxseed oil it will have a specific smell.

If when wearing new shoes, you noticed that there is a bake of my legs, then a three-percent acetic solution will help to save you once and for all of this problem. In this case, shoes are processed only from the inside, the leather surface shoes is not processed.

If your shoes wet a lot, then in order to prevent her cutting to spread the skin with a thick layer of Vaseline and leave to complete drying. Then clean and with the help of a shoe cream carefully polish her surface.

With such a problem like coarse backs shoes or boots, rubbering heels, can cope paraffin candle. Just soda her backs from the inside and for all forgive about the corns on the heels.

A good softening agent recognized fat of any waterfowl or unsalted fat. They perfectly soften shoes, and also protect it from moisture.

If you want not only to soften, but also stretch the shoes, you can use ordinary kerosene. Initially, the product should be wet, then treated with a cloth moistened in kerosene. After that, the shoes need to dry well.

And finally, you can independently make a special mitigation ointment. Here you need to melt in the water bath Natural wax with the addition of castor oil and turpentine into it. 

When applying our advice, how to soften the skin should be remembered: they are suitable only for natural material, artificial leather products with the above-mentioned means can only be ruined.