Fur and sheepskin: how to clean?

In winter furs and coats must not only wear, but also from time to time to clean ...

How to clean the fur

If you do not know how to clean fur Then in front of you two options: to give the thing to the dry cleaners or use some home-made.

What can I do with fur at home? Fur with a long nap, and the shawl can be cleaned with talcum powder or potato starch - you need to sprinkle a polluted place and lightly rubbed his hands as if washing. Talc and starch, in this case working as adsorbents.

You can also clean with the help of bran or Hercules crushed oatmeal. Bran flakes, or heated to a temperature that can withstand the hand of (not higher!) And then carefully wipe contaminated sites, scrub brush and shake.

Spot fat with small-sized fur can be removed with a soft clean cloth soaked in gasoline. If the stain is fresh and a long nap, he rubbed "of wool", and if the stain is old and a short nap - "against the grain".

Also for removing grease can prepare a solution of ammonia and sodium salts. For this it is necessary to mix 0, 5 liters of water, 1 teaspoon of alcohol and 3 teaspoons of salt.

For heavily soiled fur can also apply a paste of a mixture of petrol with starch. She rubbed into the fur against the nap and easily wiped by cloth. When the mixture is dry, clean off it, shaking gently fur thing vykolachivaya.

To give the fur shine, it can be wiped with a cloth moistened with 9% alcohol vinegar or glycerin.

To not yellower white fur, wipe it with a solution of hydrogen peroxide (1 tbsp peroxide to 1 liter of water). Yellowed fur cleaned more complete solution, but only on top of the fur, so as not to damage the skin.

Grease stains with a product made of artificial fur removed with a mixture of gasoline and potato starch (1: 1). She rubbed into the contaminated area, and when the gasoline evaporate, shake the remaining starch and scrub brush. But first you need to check to see whether it means discolor skin and does not affect any of its fluffiness.

Faux fur can also be cleaned with a solution of a universal detergent. In 1 liter of boiling water dissolve 1 tablespoon of detergent, and the solution is cooled. Then it is applied with a cotton swab on the fur and wash with a sponge soaked in warm water. After this thing must be dry and comb the fur.

How to clean sheepskin coat

If time and resources allow, the clean sheepskin coat better in dry cleaning. Just keep in mind that not all cleaning suitable for cleaning sheepskin. So look for specialized services, which are professionally engaged in cleaning leather and fur - in places working with special equipment and facilities, which may not be in regular dry cleaners.

If your fur coat is contraindicated in dry cleaning (carefully study the label!), Or you much easier thing to clean house, get help from homemade recipes.

The main rule - do not sprinkle salt stains on the fur coat, otherwise hopeless mess skin. Fresh stains can be sprinkled on a sheepskin coat semolina or starch - they absorb moisture and fat, but it does not lighten the skin.

Some spots (usually lean) in the sheepskin coat well cleaned normal office eraser.

Some inveterate stains can be derived using gauze soaked in gasoline, but this method is not suitable for every coats. So it makes sense to verify its efficacy in a small area on the inner side.

Greasy place on the collar, at the pockets, cuffs on the sleeves clean hard brush, better rubber using tooth powder with a small amount of ammonia.

If cleaning sheepskin coat becomes wet, dry it on a flat surface, and then how to mash your hands, so that it was not a stake.

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