How should I look after fur products?
Before you buy a fur coat, find out how to care for it, where to store it. Fur likes freedom, coolness and darkness. You can not place a fur coat among other things in the closet, it should hang separately on the shoulders. From excessive dryness, the fur garment will become dry, from long exposure to light, the fur product will fade, the skin will crack, and without fresh air the pile will cease to shine.
Hanging a fur coat should be in a spacious closet, on soft and wide shoulders, away from radiators. Do everything possible so that the cigarette does not get cigarette smoke, hairspray and perfume. Since these funds are easily absorbed by natural fur.
Do not panic, if a fur product gets rain or snow, natural fur can withstand moisture. The fur coat should be shaken and hung on a chair or chair to dry. To dry the fur, you can not use a hair dryer or hang it on the battery. If necessary, if you need to comb a fur coat, it is advisable to do it with your fingers.
It is possible to clean fur at home without resorting to the help of a specialist. Strong dirt on the collar of a coat or fur coat, hem, hinges, on sleeves, need to be wiped off with a gauze pad, which should be moistened in table salt and ammonia in a ratio of 3: 1.
To clean a large surface of the fur coat use rye or wheat bran. First they warm up, pour out on the fur and rub it well. Then the bran is cleaned with a brush, and the shoe is shaken well.
A fur coat from light fur can be cleaned with semolina. For heavily soiled white fur, you can use a mixture of potato flour and refined gasoline. Light fur is afraid of sunlight and can turn yellow from it. In order for the product to be shiny and fresh, you need to wipe the fur with vinegar or glycerin. When drying astrakhan fur, it is wiped with a cloth, which must be soaked in alcohol or vodka.
Fur products need careful care, which allows you to extend the life and maintain a good appearance. The more carefully the fur product is stored for storage, then there will be more guarantees to keep it. In the spring-summer period, the fur product should be thoroughly dried, cleaned of dirt and dust, and transferred by means of fighting moth or mothballs.
Then wrap the fur with a cloth and put it in a special case. The remedy for moth can not be sprinkled from the pile, otherwise the color of the fur will change.
Fur products must be protected from dirt and dust, it can be removed by shaking it lightly or using a brush. In sunny and warm weather, it is necessary to air fur products from time to time. Boas from platinum and silver-black fox should be kept in a closet in a suspended position.
Headgear and furs from furs need to be treated with moth remedies, then wrapped in paper, put in a box in which the lid closes tightly. Put sacks of mothball on the bottom of the box. Some people do not tolerate the smell of naphthalene, they can be advised such a means: dilute the soap in hot water, only not liquid, when the solution is slightly cooled, take and drop the canvas bag into the solution, squeeze it, allow it to dry. Then put the fur products in this bag.
For long-term storage of products made of fur, it is necessary to dry and air at least 1 time in 4 months. If the fur garbage is wet from rain and snow, they should be shaken, dried away from heating and heating appliances. Dried out things comb comb with sparse teeth.
Before cleaning with fur products, cotton pads are treated with steam. To remove fat and sweat stains, you can apply one of the recipes:
- Take one part of ammonia and denatured alcohol.
To increase the gloss of the product, wipe with a cloth soaked in vinegar and glycerine. It is good to clean fur items with semolina, you need to pour the fur things around, and rub your hands with a little, as if imitating laundry.
Care of fur things.
1. If you are exposed to rain or snow, dry the fur at room temperature. When the fur is dried, you need to comb it with a metal comb first on the pile, then against the pile. Then smooth the fur with your hand for the fur hair growth. As a result, there will be a fresh fluffy look of fur.
2. Small skin ruptures can be sewn at home, and for this cotton thread number 60 or number 80 is suitable, you need to sew a gap with a seam on the side of the skin. And holes up to 3 centimeters, are sewn from the side of fur, seam over the edge, then at this place the pile is neatly combed. Sewing a button, put a piece of leather between the button and the fur, and, attaching the button, leave a "leg" of thread about 3 millimeters between this piece and the button.
You can clean the fur of the house if it is not heavily soiled.
Cleaning is carried out in the following ways:
- Take the same amount of water, alcohol, table vinegar and apply a foam or brush to the fur product. Then rub the fur with a clean piece of cloth.
- Mole fur, otters, beavers are cleaned with hot dry sand. The fur coat is put on the table, sprinkled with sand, and rubbed with a hand. Then the dirty sand is cleaned, and the clean sand is poured until the fur and palm are clean.
- It is good to clean the fur of fat will help gasoline, especially in the collar and cuffs. Clean gasoline damp cloth or foam sponge, and short-haired fur with an old stain should be cleaned against the nap, and fur with a long nap with a fresh stain to wipe the nap.
Caring for furs products, you need to know that some experiments may end up completely differently than you wish, and before you can produce at home some experiment with your expensive fur coat, it's better to take it to a specialist who will help you, so that your item looks the best. You can clean the fur coat at home and with the due diligence and approach, everything will look good.