Make Your Leather Jacket Softer
When you have a leather jacket, you usually have to wait for it to "break in" before it gets soft. However, this takes a long time, and you may not have enough patience; here are some tips for making the process faster.
Steps
- Have a good understanding of what leather is. Leather is skin from an animal, and has many of the same properties as human skin. When you have dry skin, you add lotion to it and it softens your skin; the same is true on a leather jacket.
- Use a microfiber towel to apply a leather conditioner o your leather jacket. The conditioners are easily available in the market. While making the leather jacket pliable and soft they also help to protect and moisturize it!
- Rub in the leather conditioner deep into the jacket with firm strokes of the towel for the best results. The more moisturized the jacket, the better the outcome!
- Once the entire jacket has been coated with the conditioner, crumple up the jacket with your hands. Crush the leather all the way from the shoulders to the cuffs. This ensures that the conditioner is well settled into even the tiniest nooks and crevices of the jacket thus yielding the best results.
- Once you have done this, repeat the process with another layer of conditioner.
- Take a blow dyer and put it on medium heat. Don’t choose blow dryers that do not let you adjust the heat as it may lead to negative results due to over or under heating. We only need to warm the jacket as this will help to both soak up and seal in the conditioner into the jacket. While blow drying the jacket, make sure that you keep the blow dryer at least {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}} away from the jacket and keep moving the dryer around without focusing on one spot for too long!
- Once this is complete, use another microfiber towel devoid of any conditioner and give the leather jacket a good rub down again. This will help give it a nice shine.
Tips
- When you wear it, move it around as much as possible.
- Wear it as much as possible.
- Expose the jacket to humidity.
Warnings
- Whatever you do to care or clean your leather jacket always test anything you intend to apply to the skin in a small hidden area of the jacket first, this will make sure you are aware of any adverse effects the product will have on your leather jacket before it's too late.
- Don't cut off the arms, unless you know what you are doing.
- Don't draw on your jacket. It will look ugly.
Things You'll Need
- 2 Microfiber towels
- Leather Conditioner
- A Blow Dryer
