Clean windows with chamois leather without leaving streaks

What you need:

• Chamois leather
• warm water

These reasons make chamois leather the ideal window cleaner

• The surface of chamois leather is not as smooth as the surface of a cloth made of a textile fabric. Due to the rough surface, dirt particles are removed similarly to an eraser.
• Due to the fine texture of the chamois leather, your window cleaned thoroughly but so gently that no fine scratch arise on the glass panes.
• The chamois leather is very absorbent. Thus, you can not only loosen the adhering dirt with the chamois leather but also absorb the dirt particles at the same time as the chamois leather.
• For gentle, thorough and streak-free cleaning of your windows, you do not need any cleaning agent if you use chamois leather. Neither washing-up liquid nor glass cleaner or similar products are necessary to clean windows with chamois leather thoroughly and without leaving streaks.
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How to clean your windows with chamois leather

1. Prepare a small bucket with lukewarm, clear water.


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2. Dip the chamois leather in the water and wait a few seconds until the chamois leather has soaked up with the water.
3. Now squeeze out a large part of the water taken up by the chamois leather. The chamois should not be wrung out very forcefully, but neither should it be dripping wet.
4. Always clean the frames first.
5. Whenever the chamois leather has absorbed enough dirt, wash the leather cloth in the water bucket and then wring out enough water again that you can easily use the leather can work.
6. To dry the window frame, wring out the chamois leather very hard and then use it to take the one that is still clinging to the window frame humidity on.
7. Change the water in the bucket and now clean the window panes.
8. Here, too, you first clean the window panes with the slightly damp leather cloth and thus loosen any adhering dirt particles from the glass pane.
9. To wash Take out the chamois leather and now absorb the water still adhering to the window panes with the chamois leather that has been wrung out quite dry.

Real chamois leather is quite expensive to buy. But you will be able to use it for many years without any loss of quality. Don't be surprised if your chamois leather after the first dry becomes very hard. That is normal. As soon as you immerse the chamois leather in water again, it will be as soft as before.