How to distinguish between artificial leather and genuine leather

Real leather refers to natural leather, which is made from animal skin. Artificial leather refers to synthetic leather or other dermal like leather, which is actually a synthetic product made from basic chemical raw materials. The structure of natural leather is so complex that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to produce it seamlessly under present conditions. Sometimes artificial leather can be "fake". Here are some common ways to tell the difference.

1, the shape of natural leather is irregular, thickness is not uniform, its surface is often more or less, or light or heavy there are some natural incomplete, because of cowboy natural growth, hard to avoid leather face will have a wound scar. Its surface is smooth and meticulous degrees vary, the full material surface leather has obvious pores and patterns, leather in general there is velvet. The synthetic leather has uniform thickness, smooth surface and no natural defects. Its pores and patterns are also very uniform. Generally, there is no velvet in the leather.

2. For finished leather products, it is difficult to distinguish between genuine leather and artificial leather, especially leather products with small area, tight structure and invisible inside. The identification method for such products is: first, look at the appearance, uniform texture, no deformity, no coarse grain, and no artificial leather with any defects. And the quality of a material of leather has a few difference, especially the junction place difference of main place and minor place of leather products should be apparent some. Then carefully observe the pore distribution and its shape; Natural leather has many holes and deep not suitable to see the bottom, can feel as if there is a fine hole left by hair pulling; The pore shallow vertical may be synthetic leather modified surface leather. Some have even been mechanically pressed to create pores that are clearly visible. In addition, the cross-sectional fiber of natural leather has its own characteristics, and the thickness of each layer of fiber varies. And the fiber of synthetic leather each layer is basically uniform, the surface is a plastic film.

3. Tensile and elastic test: Natural leather has good elasticity and tensile force, otherwise it is artificial leather.

4, blowing test: can be aligned with the reverse side of the leather with saliva blowing, leakage in the front, it is because the leather has this "anti-inverse performance", when you put on the leather, the cold effect is very obvious, and formed a good air permeability, which fully reflects the value of leather.

5. Visual identification: Leather decorative pattern, should play the pores to identify, on the surface of natural leather we can see the decorative pattern, pore does exist, and the distribution is not uniform, the opposite has animal fiber, the lateral section, level clearly discernible, have lower animal fiber, with the hand which try fingernails appear leather fibre, have the feeling of raising, a small amount of fiber can also fell off, can see fabric and synthetic leather the reverse side, side no animal fiber, general skin without pores, but there are some imitation leather artificial pores, there will be not obvious pores exist, some decorative pattern is not obvious, or has the rules of artificial decorative pattern, pore is consistent.

6, feel identification method: second leather feel is full of elasticity, the leather face down bent 90 degrees or so there will be a natural folds, respectively at different positions of the bend, the fold line thickness, how many, have obvious uneven, basic can be concluded that this was a genuine leather, because real leather with TianRanXing uneven fiber tissue, thus forming the crease lines also have obvious uneven performance. And synthetic leather feel like plastic, poor recovery, bend down to fold grain thickness are similar.

7. Smell identification: Natural leather has a strong smell of fur, even after treatment, the taste is more obvious, while artificial leather products have a smell of plastic, no smell of fur. 8, combustion identification method: mainly sniff coke smell and see ash state, natural leather combustion produces a burning hair smell, when burn into ashes generally easy to break into powder, and artificial leather, combustion flame is also flourishing, after shrinking rapidly, and has a bad plastic smell, sticky after burn, after cooling hardening into a block.

In recent years, however, as a result of the continuous innovation of the fashion industry, the real leather material was pressed into a lot of new patterns, the most common litchi grain. Snake grain, film patent leather, etc. Look from the surface is not quite see, but can be from the leather side to identify the authenticity.