Cleaning and maintaining a leather sofa

What you need:

• Leather care
• a dirt eraser
• Body lotion

Clean the leather sofa

• Cleaning a light leather sofa is much more complicated than cleaning a dark one. Light and white sofas take on the color of a new one incredibly quickly Jeans or you can see the streaks that the soles of slippers leave behind. Think about this before you buy.

• First of all, the leather sofa should be freed from coarse dirt. Go with that vacuum cleaner in every nook and cranny. Then take the dirt eraser and lightly dampen it. Go over the affected area, using small circular movements to remove the dirt. Then clean the dirt eraser again. This can be used multiple times.

Maintain the leather sofa

• Of course, there are a few things you can do to look after your couch in stores. You can get leather care in specialist shops or in large supermarkets for around 5 euros. Use this as specified by the manufacturer.
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• An inexpensive and good way to care for your leather couch is to use simple body lotion. This pulls into the leather and keeps it supple. Caution: Do not use body lotion with additives such as self-tanners. This would be your couch with stains litter.

Preserve the leather sofa

• After cleaning and caring for it, you can also conserve your couch a little. A leather seal helps that the leather is less sensitive to color abrasion and dirt. You can find this seal in specialist shops. These are also available from auto accessories in hardware stores.


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• If your leather couch has already lost a lot of color and is no longer visually appealing, there is also the option of applying new color. These colors are also available from specialist retailers, they cost around 10 euros.