why the leather seat cover have smell?
If you purchase the leather seat cover online, the arrived product always come with smell.
What’s that smell Contain?
Mainly uncomfortable odor from the solvent, finishing agent, fatliquor, and some due to the result of the mold, The greatest harm to the human body is as harmful with formaldehyde aldehydes, hexanaldehyde, heptaldehyde and other aldehydes and ammonia The same harmful nitrogen-containing compounds such as 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, and aromatic compounds such as toluene and xylene.
The best way to eliminate those smells is put it under the sun exposure for a couple days. This method is safest, most eco-friendly, also save money. If you purchase the seat cover in winter. you may need to another way.
Mix the water and vinegar, spray them into the car’s interior. throw the seat cover’s plastic film, those plastic film will Release of CO, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, styrene, β-methyl styrene and hydrocarbons and other harmful gases under the sun exposure.
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Use Activated carbon to filter the smell. Because the characteristics of activated carbon are characterized by many pores, strong adsorption, can absorb a series of pollutants, including formaldehyde, and will not produce secondary pollution. But the limited capacity of activated carbon package, so you need t o change it very frequently until the smell gone.
Ozone disinfection
The smell will go within 10 minutes, you may need to go car maintenance center. After this is done, you need to wait a little while to come in, avoid body discomfort.don’t do this too many time, it will harm car’s interior.
Car air purifier will works also.
The wrong way you need to be ware of:
Try to use fruit peel / car fragrance / air fresher to eliminate the smell, those can not eliminate it,but cover them, those toxic gas still in your car.
I search a lot of information about why leather product not eliminate smell before sell them. but I can not find anything about it. and I know one more thing if the product is made by leather, and product is brand new from the package, the smell is definitely exist. Like the new car, new sofa. you really want to get the leather seat cover without smell, you can go to the Walmart or some other retail store and purchase the display model.
So why the leather have smell?
The skin peeled off from animal has no life, but also no nutrient supply, if not dealt with at all, will become dry and hard and easy to split. so in the making leather process, it will go through “tanning” process, so that leather becomes soft, durable,not easy to split.
During the “tanning” process, The Chemicals we’re using will cause the smell generate.
