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By Jacquie Generra
So you probably know all about the way that horrible cigarette smoke odor lingers on everything that it touches, including your clothing and hair. While smoking may be enjoyable to you, no one wants the lingering smoke odors in clothes and hair. Particularly if the clothing happens to be a genuine leather jacket that you have had and treasure forever. Follow these tips to remove lingering cigar smells from your leather apparel.
Getting the jacket clean. Cleaning leather is not as simple as tossing it in the washer or taking it out to the cleaners. Although, if the cost is not too steep for you could take your jacket to a specialist in cleaning leather garments. For a do it yourself job, all you need to outlay money for is a good leather cleaner and some soft clean rags. Leather cleaners can easily be found at any leather garment retailer or even in large department stores. Follow the label directions and apply the cleaner to the jacket and remove within the required time limit. Rub the cleaner off with a soft rag. Is the odor still not gone? Try a gentle soap with no added fragrance or saddle soap (especially made to condition leather). It should be applied with a rag while working up a rich lather. Wipe with another dry soft cloth or rinse with warm water. With a clean rag, dab and get rid of any excess moisture. Your leather jacket should then be allowed to lie on a flat surface, in a warm place and away from sunlight or any strong light or heat source.
Solutions for a jacket with lining. If the leather jacket has a fabric lining, you can try using a product like Febreeze, which will remove any kind of smell from garments. But, exercise caution to avoid applying it right on the leather goods. Apply Febreeze all over the jacket, until the leather, both inside and out, is completely covered in spray. When you’ve done that, lay the jacket out on a flat surface and let it air dry.
There are an endless number of uses for baking soda. Sodium bicarbonate aka baking soda can be used directly or diluted to remove cigar smoke odor from your leather jacket. Put an open box of baking soda inside a bag or pillow slip with the garment. Make sure to sprinkle the baking soda in a thick layer on all surfaces including the sleeves. If you are going to use it as a solution, this involves dissolving the bicarb in warm water and saturating the jacket completely. Then rinse out with more warm water and let the jacket to dry as in previous steps. The mixture would be made up of one teaspoon of soda to one liter of water, but you can increase the amount of baking soda, if you wish.
Vinegar. Dilute vinegar in warm water in equal parts – one part vinegar with one part warm water. Immerse the jacket entirely, rinse 2-3 times then lay on a flat surface to dry naturally. Also you can to wet a sponge with straight vinegar and sponge over the whole jacket. Sponge several times and then rinse it off in between.
All these options will help you eliminate the smell of cigar from your leather jacket. Odors other than cigar smoke can be removed by these methods.
About the Author: Jacquie Generra writes about
cigarette odor removal
and
fashion and grooming tips
as a staff writer for http://www.HowToDoThings.com.
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