Hardware and leather handle maintenance

For metal zippers and buckles, keep them dry is enough. If get rust marks, use silver polishing cloth wipe the marks (Note: no matter how black the silver polishing cloth becomes during uasage, never wash it! Because there is a layer of special coating on its surface, if you wash it, the special coating will fall away.) Because zippers are frequently in use, so they are hard to become rusty. For golden locks, rubbing with silver polishing cloth is a good way. If the silver polishing cloth is too black to rub, use a piece of clean cotton cloth moistened tung oil, silver harware can also be maintained in this way.(Or you can use a piece of clean cloth dipped with baby powder rub them. If hardware oxidized seriously, rub them harder. This will also be a good method.)

Due to being held in hand often, pillow series genuine leather handle is mostly easy to get dirty. Here is how :

Prepare a wet towel (as soft as possible, not too hard), a tube of toothpaste (common one is OK, don't use these contain grinding pellets) and a hair dryer. First, squeeze the toothpaste on the towel, apply them evenly, then rub the dirty part with this towel. During rubbing, you will find the leather handle will become black, don't worry, it's the result the leather moistened water. Then use the rest part of towel, which without toothpaste, wipe the toothpaste on leather handle away, after use hair dryer dry the handle, you will find the handle becomes more white immediately. Of course, dry in the sun is OK, too. The towel must be soft, if it's too hard, it may scratch the matching hide. After cleaning the handle this way, the leather in handle part will become relatively drier. So in order to help those pores get closed, you need to wear a pair of white gloves and rub the leather with your hands after cleaning.

In fact, on the basis of through cleaning, the best maintenance for leather bags is not oiling, but frequently touching, use your hands polishing.:)

In addition, in case the handle is too dirty that needs high-degree cleaning, you can try 3M cleaning fluid, the effect is not bad. Moreover, 3M cleaning fluid is easy to get, you can find it in almost every supermarket. But do remember one thing, the fluid must be those special for leather and must be use with cloth. When clean handle, spray the cleaning fluid on the soft cloth(or white cotton gloves)first, then use the cloth(or gloves) rub the handle, to those very dirty parts, rub harder, but don't use too much fluid or rub too harder, otherwise leather's color will change, become a little gray, and when in use the handle will become much black, but don't worry too much, due to 3M is a volatile product, after it evaperated. Leather's color will return.