September Issue… Pen Marks & Stains on Leather Handbags

Oh September, you are playing up again, you are rainy one day and heat-waving unexpectedly. As I tap on my calender for a moment with my ice cream pen, I pen down holidays and blogging schedules! Then I look at all the blank spaces and wonder what I could be doing. Then I rolled my eyes and saw the ugliest yellow stain on my MCM FIrst Lady handbag. It is by far my favourite handbag I have in my materialistic collection and when I see a stain, it just breaks my heart. Here is a very good tip as to how to keep your leather handbag clean and remove dirt/stain every time.

I am not very keen with leather removers; they are very specific as to what will work on the type of leather and they tend to be rather expensive, and even more expensive when it doesn’t work! On calf leather (cow leather), it is the easiest leather to clean!! All you need is non alcoholic makeup wipes. That’s right, that’s how to clean a leather bag! I have man handled many types of leather handbags and makeup wipes does the job. It rubs between the grain but I advise to clean it as soon as you splosh your bag! Pen marks? Dear old pen marks; they are very difficult to remove! During my time working with leather handbags; use a white rubber and go along the grain (calf leather, not lambskin). This will make the pen mark lighter and not so obvious. Then, I use my makeup wipe to try and remove a little more. To be honest, I had a nasty pen mark on my beige wallet, and within time (rubbing over time) it comes off so there is hope.

Now Lambskin handbags… don’t even go there unless you can afford to get it ruined. You can not clean it, unless you use super expensive lambskin cleaners which won’t do the whole job.

The power of Makeup Wipes, not only wipe away the slap on our faces, but cleans your bag AND… naturally polishes your bag and gives it a nice shine.

Hats off to makeup wipes. Do you have irritating problems with keeping your bags clean?

May xx