How to effectively clean and maintain a genuine leather sofa?

2025-11-04

Genuine leather sofas, as a member of the sofa family, are loved for their dignified elegance, luxurious durability, and high quality. Currently, mixing and matching various elements is a trend across different fields, and genuine leather sofas, while maintaining their luxurious feel, have incorporated a variety of rich elements, resulting in vibrant and diverse colors, light and simple designs, and a strong sense of modernity and style. But how can genuine leather sofas be effectively cleaned and maintained?

First, dampen a towel with water, wring it out, and wipe away dust and dirt from the surface of your newly purchased leather sofa. Then, apply a leather conditioner once or twice to form a protective film on the surface, which will make future maintenance much easier. For example, when you first buy a leather sofa for your living room, you should apply a leather conditioner to the surface. This will not only extend the lifespan of the leather sofa but also make future maintenance much easier.

Avoid using ballpoint pens or ink to stain the sofa. If you accidentally leave a mark with a ballpoint pen, clean it immediately with an eraser. Regardless of the brand of genuine leather sofa, if you accidentally stain it with ballpoint pen or ink, clean it with an eraser immediately. This will help you better maintain your leather sofa in the future.

If you accidentally leave cracks or scratches on your sofa, for black leather sofas, use egg white ground into ink; for colored leather sofas, use the corresponding watercolor paint. After it dries, apply a coat of varnish. If the crack is relatively large, apply adhesive evenly to both sides of the crack, wait about 10 minutes, then pull the tear taut and glue it together. Finally, erase any adhesive residue with an eraser. Leather sofas manufactured by leather sofa manufacturers have a limited lifespan. When a leather sofa exceeds this limit, cracks will appear. In this case, effectively repairing the leather sofa is a good method.

If you find a tear in your leather sofa, please contact the leather sofa dealer or manufacturer for repair. Always have a professional repairman do the work; do not attempt to repair it yourself at home, as this may damage the sofa.