Sunday, October 23, 2011

How to Clean a Baseball Glove

Do you like baseball? If you are a baseball fan and like practising this sport with friends then you have your own baseball glove right!? Well if this is true then you may be interested in this article where I will tell you how to keep your favourite baseball glove clean. Although you may already know this information it will not kill you to give a look at the text below in order to make sure that you are doing things right. Moreover you may not be familiar with the cleaning method that I am going to share with you.

If your kid has a baseball glove you know that you have to clean it regularly because of the dirt and grime it collects when your child is playing with it in the back yard. There are many ways to clean a baseball glove some of them are useful others can damage the leather. Therefore you have to pick the most effective way to clean this item. For instance, London cleaning professionals claim that the most important thing when cleaning a baseball glove is to test the cleaner you've picked on some hidden area of the leather surface first. Moreover the professionals say that the best cleaner for the purpose is untreated petroleum jelly.

If there is a time when your child does not use its baseball glove you should threat it with a light application to freshen the leather. This way you will be able to keep the leather clean and good looking. Another thing you should do at the end of the season is to remove all the dirt and grime from the glove. Then you should thoroughly cover the inside and outside of the baseball glove with petroleum jelly. Make sure that you cover the entire leather both inside and outside the glove. Then take a clean, soft cloth and remove the remaining grime and dirt. London cleaners warn to not use neat's foot oil for the cleaning. Such solutions will close the pores of the leather and will make it hard and dry. Last but not least you should remember that you have to take care of leather surfaces in the way you treat your own skin.