When furniture from a skin substitute is present in the home setting, it is necessary to know the main features of this material. It is easy to care, unlike fabric upholsters, but it is also hard to remove ink spots. And if the handle is wrapped with a handle, a favorite clutch or bag of artificial leather, then the contamination can be displayed independently, and not say goodbye to the thing or use the services of dry-cleaners.
What are the pollution?
Ink spots are very resistant and hardly removed from any material. All ink includes a variety of dyes. Dye in a water-based feature handle. If you get to the surface, the liquid dries quickly, but it is easier to remove it from the product, since the water is not fixed in the fibers. Water-based gel handle is removed by universal ways for all painting pigments.
The composition of the ballpoint handle includes a paste on a oil-wax basis. Spots from the paste penetrate the pores of any material, even smooth leatherette. Such dyes are the most difficult pollution.
Fresh stains left by a handle are effectively eliminating even simple detergents.
Soased ink pollution requires the use of special recipes for eliminating, and sometimes the use of aggressive compositions. That's why Do not tighten with rubbing stains.
What to wash?
Spots from the pen give away with the help of folk and chemicals. In the kitchen, any hostess will be universal Folk remedies that will come to the rescue in the fight against fresh ink on the surface of the leatherette:
- Sodium bicarbonate or food soda. Soda powder is dissolved in water. It is not necessary to use it dry as an abrasive, this will lead to a damage of artificial leather material.
- Salt. This first aid, if the paste has left the handle. Salt is an excellent absorbent and well absorbs any pollution - oil, ink, paint.
- Mustard powder. Mustard powder solution removes black and red ink tracks.
- Lemon or vinegar. Lemon or acetic acid splits dyes and binders of ink paste. This means you need to use with caution on dark products from the leatherette, since the acid can disaster and the color of the material itself.
For old contaminants from the handle, and when the use of folk remedies has not helped, you need to use more radical measures:
- Stains designed to remove contaminants from the leatherette. If the instructions on the package states that the stain remover copes with ink, it will also withdraw old stains.
- Means containing alcohol. These include antistatic, ammonia alcohol, hair polish, medical alcohol, vodka, cologne, glycerin. The alcohol dissolves the ink paint, the freshest spot will easily be cleaned, and with emervious traces will have to be tinted longer.
- Soaps. The detergent soap is used as a detergent solution, dishwashing liquid, car wash shampoo. The soap solution will cope if it takes a timely to remove the paste from the handle.
- Sulfuric powder. If it was not available, instead of powder, use the brown head matches, which contain sulfur.
- Solvents. The dye contained in ink is denominated by various solvents. Used White Spirit, acetone, purified gasoline, kerosene. But it is worth caution when using aggressive solvents, as they can spoil the color and structure of the leatherette. They enjoy in the most difficult cases if they failed to cope with traces from the handle by other delicate methods. Before applying the solvent, you should check the resistance of the leatherette on the invisible area of the product.
For cleaning products from leatherette, use clean soft fabric, rags, napkins or a foam sponge so as not to damage the material.
It is necessary to apply the means with cotton disk or cotton chopsticks if the area is small - several chirks from the ballpoint handle. The use of brushes and active friction is possible only on thick upholstered furniture.
Clear how to quickly clean?
Methods for cleaning the leather surface are similar to cleaning artificial leather.
The leatherette responds calmly to the "wet" procedures, but you should not rub it with brushes, since it is possible to damage the integrity of the material.
The first way to remove ink spots is the use of soaps. For these purposes, the dishes washing liquid, the household soap. If the contamination is present on the upholstery of automotive chairs, then you can apply the car washing liquid. On a wet foam sponge, a thick layer apply washing liquid or to actively lose the caring soap bar. Soapy sponge cleaned the stains on Dermatin.
For better exposure, you can add 10-20 grams of the cooking salt, as it absorbs ink particles well. If it was not possible to rain the traces of the paste until the end, then the soap mixture with salt can be kept on the leatherette for several hours. Remove detergents remove with a wet cloth.
The universal method of getting rid of traces of the handle is soda and ammonia. 5-10 grams of food soda and a teaspoon of ammonia alcohol add to a glass with warm water. This solution is wetted with a cotton disk and wipe the stains. After removing contamination, the solution needs to be erased from the surface.
On sale you can find household stains intended for artificial leather, different manufacturers. They are produced in solid and liquid form. Typically, a chemical need to withstand some time at the point of pollution. If you follow the instructions on the package and follow all the rules, then the ink will not be a trace.
Solvents enjoy in the most neglected cases, when no means managed to cope with the solar spots. Kerosene, gasoline, white spirit, lacquer, containing acetone, are taken as a solvent. Washed with solvent cotton and wipe ink spots. Then we immediately rub a wet napkin to remove the aggressive fluid.
To soften the leatherette, wipe the plot with a small amount of glycerol.
All these methods will allow you to quickly clean different products from the leatherette from ink divorces, ranging from the furniture upholstery from Dermatin ending with eco-clothes clothing.
Remove stains from interior items
Furniture from the leatherette is extremely difficult to distinguish from the leather, but it is worth an order of magnitude cheaper. Worders of a sofa or chair, covered with leather, is not difficult to care for them. But persistent contamination from the handle requires special efforts when removing.
Remove ink divorces from furniture will help melamine sponge . Melamine cleans resistant pollution from various solid surfaces. To do this, the melamine sponge is wetted with cold water and thoroughly clutch the dirty area until it cleans.
A regular match will help to cope with dashes from the ballpoint handle. The matchbox contains sulfur. Wet sponge wipe ecocuse to moisten it. Traces from the handle are working with a sulfur matches. After the procedure, all residues are removed with soapy and wipe dry.
Rub clothes and bags
Fresh ink spots on clothes and accessories are well eliminated by various alcohol-containing fluids. Previously before applying the means to the surface, the contaminated area on the artificial leather must be discharged by paraffin candle so that ink sweels will not spread and do not pollute the largest area.
If the first-aid kit has medical alcohol or disinfectants based on alcohol, then the contamination is removed by a cotton swab into alcohol.
When the alcohol was not, you can use hair varnish or antistatic, since their composition includes a large proportion of alcohol.
. The aerosol is sprayed into a polluted area, wetting it. Wipe with a cotton disk, removing traces of pasta. The remnants of the means are wiping with a damp cloth.
If at home there are napkins for wiping the monitor, they are perfectly suitable for cleaning the traces of the handle. They are impregnated with alcohol liquids, which dissolve the ink composition. Napkin Crow spot before getting the desired result.
To remove ballpoint handles with eco-tree use cosmetic cream. Cream can be any - children, for hands or face. All stain is thickly lubricated with cream and leave on the surface of half an hour. The cream is then scheduling from the leatherette, it is possible to lose the stain with effort. If necessary, repeat the entire procedure several times.
If the ink stain has noticed from the handle on the bag or backpack from the thick leatherette, then stick to this segment of the tape, let the dirt absorb, and then tear the tape along with the ink particles. Noticeable traces of the remaining contaminants can be taped by the usual eraser.
White leather cleaning features
Pollution from ink paste on white artificial skin is particularly noticeable. In bright shades of leatherette, you can use the bleaching effect. For cleaning white products use Glycerin, lemon juice, soda, milk, ammonia alcohol.
The safest means of removing ink dyes is considered fresh milk. Wat or a napkin to rush to rich in warm milk and put it on a contaminated area. Leave to impact an hour, then wipe with a damp cloth.
Glycerin clean white skin. Mixed in the glycerin with a cotton disk Trigon stain to complete disappearance. The traces of the handle are cleansed with a mixture of glycerin and ammonia. In 2 tablespoons of the ammonic alcohol add 2 teaspoons of pharmacy glycerin. This fluid processes the traces of contamination and leave until the paste is disappeared, and then thoroughly wash off the surface.
Acetic or citric acid helps soften ink to get easier to rain them from leather material. With soda and lemon juice, you can clear the resistant stains from the handle. At the contaminated area, pour out dry food soda powder, and then pour lemon juice over. After a couple of minutes, rub the cloth and remove all traces of this mixture from the leatherette.
Tips and recommendations
The main rule that will help to quickly and effectively remove ink from the leatherette - start cleaning immediately, as soon as they set or notice contamination. The deeper the paste absorbed into the pores of the material, the more difficult it is to eliminate. Soased spots are hard to clean without damage to the skin.
If ink proceeded on the artificial skin, then urgently need to sprinkle a stain with a salty salt. Salt absorbed excess paste, will not allow grow. Natural domestic products are no less effective than expensive chemical stains.
Starting to fight ink on thin products from leatherette follows the most delicate means, taking into account the color of the surface.
Milk, cream, any detergent can cope with small fresh stains.
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