Cleaning white leather is tricky, so here’s all you need to know on how to clean white leather chair with six steps and the right tools. Leather is a perfect material for furniture and some outdoor equipment because it’s durable and classy.
DIY Steps To Clean White Leather
There are proper tools to clean your white leather chair depending on the finish and the stain. We’ll try to cover as much as possible with this DIY, so let’s get on to it.
Step #1. Prepare
Doing preparation before any work won’t hurt anybody, so it’s wise to prepare things beforehand, making you ready for everything. Grab some pail and water and some liquid soap or some commercial leather cleaner or castile soap that is suitable for cleaning leather materials.
Grab some gloves, a couple of dish rags, and maybe a spray bottle if you ever have one. You also need to prepare your chair. Place your leather chair in a clean and open space.
We will be doing some wet work, so it’s best to work on places with some essential documents lying around. Now that everything is in place, let’s get to cleaning!
Step #2. Damp the leather
Before using your soap and scrubbing with all your might, let us damp the leather surface first. Damp the surface using a cloth and clean water.
Remember not to overly hydrate the surface, for it may damage that beautiful leather, just do it nice and even just to moisturize the leather chair’s surface. Damping the leather surface will allow you to remove dust and grease beforehand and make stains much easier to remove during the procedure.
Step #3. Mix your cleaning solution
Now that the stain is damp and moist, proceed to mix your cleaning solution. You can do either a liquid castile soap or a liquid soap of your own mixed with clean water or vinegar mixed with linseed or olive oil, depending on your preference.
If you have a spray bottle, you can put the solution in to easily apply the solution to the stained surface. Wear your glove and grab a clean rag or cloth and get ready to clean.
Step #4. Cleaning the leather
Get your solution at hand and check if the surface is still damp. If it isn’t, then just wipe it again with a wet cloth, and if it is, then proceed to apply your cleaning solution.
To ensure that you can avoid excessive solution application, you can also try to spray the solution with a clean cloth. Just wipe it on the leather’s surface, or you can just spray it directly, little by little.
Always start from the upper part to avoid doing things repeatedly and again with every aspect of the chair. Wipe it down in a circular motion and avoid scrubbing because it may damage the leather material, ruining your work.
Step #5. Cleaning the stains
This is quite a tricky part, cleaning those stains. First of all, before you start applying some random cleaning solution, try to determine the type of stain that you are facing off. Here are some examples of stains to look out for and how to deal with them.
Let’s start with the common ones, oil stains. These stains might come from food which is very usual to be the cause of a stain. For this kind of stain, just sprinkle cornstarch on the stained area and leave it for a couple of hours.
After it’s done, use a vacuum cleaner or brush away the powder. Repeat as much as necessary.
For ink stains, blot away the dampened stain using a paper tissue or a paper towel. Use a cloth dipped in isopropyl alcohol and work your way from the outside edge of the stain going to the center to prevent further spreading.
When the ink is entirely removed, wipe the surface with a clean cloth. The surface may look dry so just swap the area again with leather conditioner afterward.
Another type of prominent stain to look out for is scuff marks. You can use a melanin eraser for these types of stains if you have one, or you could also use a homemade cleaning paste made out of lemon juice and cream of tartar. Spread it and wipe it off after a couple of minutes.
Step #6. Buff up the leather
Now that you have finished the cleaning procedure, it’s time to restore your leather chair to its former glory. Wipe off the surface with a clean cloth.
There really is no need to wash the cleaning solution away, so let’s just leave it at that. You have now cleaned up your white leather chair.
How to keep stains out of white leather
To keep the stains off your white leather chair, just use it mindfully. Don’t do activities in your leather chair that may cause stains and other damages, and if it’s inevitable, just make sure to clean your chair at a significant period.
Does bleach work on white leather?
This mainly depends on your chair’s leather finish. Bleach may cause damages to the leather chair with a leather finish, so it’s pretty inadvisable. Just use a gentler liquid soap solution in cleaning your leather.
Conclusion
Now that you have seen the process, we can now conclude that you now know how to clean white leather chair, so get your stuff out and some cleaning materials and get good at cleaning your leathery furniture.