How to distinguish the skin from leatherette?

Recently, clothes and accessories made of genuine leather are becoming more popular, despite the fact that the price of products is quite high. Of course, it is important for us, as consumers, to know what exactly we are paying such money for.

Surely you have heard many times, and maybe you've come across things made from a skin substitute. And if you do not know how to distinguish the skin from leatherette, then you can easily sell a fake, but you will pay for it as a natural skin. Therefore, the first advice to you, if you do not understand how to distinguish real leather, do not buy products in the markets or recently opened stores.

So, in order that as few women fall into the hands of scammers, we offer some tips on how to distinguish the skin from a substitute.

Properties of genuine leather

Surely many have heard that if the natural skin is set on fire, then it will not burn, but it will simply smell of burned. So it is so, but it is better not to resort to this method, because if the product suddenly turns out to be a fake, then you will spoil it by arson. Another advise to soak the skin in hot water. You do not need to do this either. The natural skin under the influence of hot water, has the property of "sitting down."

How then to distinguish a skin from kozhzama, you ask, if the most widespread methods can not be applied? In fact, everything is not so difficult. Below we offer you a few secrets that will help you learn how to distinguish real leather from counterfeiting.

Six tips for distinguishing natural skin:

1. When choosing a leather product, try to find an untreated edge. The inner side of the skin is very similar to suede, soft and pleasant to the touch.
2. If the skin is held in the hand a little, it will also heat up from the heat, and it will cool down slowly.
3. In many genuine leather products, next to the price tag is a leather label with an emblem that indicates the quality of the model. If this label has a scent of the skin, and its inner side is soft and rough as suede, then it is genuine leather.
4. The fastest and most harmless way is to check the naturalness of the skin with a drop of water. As you all know, there are pores in the skin, and if you drop one drop on the product, if the skin is natural, the drop will be absorbed, leaving a wet trace that will dry quickly.
5. If you still decided to test the skin with fire, then find the most inconspicuous place and bring the fire there. As a rule, the real skin does not melt and does not change its appearance.
6. In products made of genuine leather, threads do not stick out from the treated edges. Although you do not need to trust this method, as a counterfeit can be stitched very qualitatively, that you will not immediately distinguish one from the other.

How to distinguish artificial skin:

1. Artificial leather on the reverse side of the cloth, sometimes visible sticking out strings.
2. Leather, if you hold it in your hand, does not heat up, but keeps the same temperature. But now, substitutes are very much similar to the skin and the smell, and the sensations and even able to heat from the heat of the hand. In this case, you can only distinguish by the length of the cooling of the product. Leatherette will cool very quickly.
3. Very often, artificial skin crackles, and the life of such a product will not be long.
4. If you drop a drop of water on a substitute, the water will simply drain away, leaving a dry surface.
5. How to distinguish artificial skin with fire? It is enough to bring a burning match or lighter, as the substitute will melt very quickly, and the smell will be burning plastic.

Armed with the necessary knowledge, you can safely go shopping, without fear of fakes.