With the social development of science and technology, the artificial leather technology is mature, product quality is greatly improved, especially in the imitation leather areas is sometimes mistakable for the real thing, in many aspects, such as breathability, flexibility, feel and appearance are similar to natural leather, but the price is much lower than the natural leather, therefore, in order to improve our ability to identify and introduce some simple and direct method for reference.
1 - Visual identification method: first of all should from the leather pattern, pores, etc to identify, you can see on the face of the natural leather pattern and pores do exist, and the distribution is not uniform, the opposite has animal fiber, the lateral section, level clearly discernible, underlayer have animal fiber, With a fingernail scratch test will appear erected leather fibers, napping feeling, a small amount of fibre may also fall down, the opposite can see the fabrics of Artificial leather side no animal fibers, usually surface without pores,
But some have artificial leather pores that will be not obvious presence, some patterns are not obvious, or have more regular artificial patterns, pores are fairly consistent.
2 - The handle identification method: secondly the real leather feel elastic, 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 and quantity have obvious uneven, the basic thought can be concluded that this is real leather, because real leather have natural uneven fiber tissue, thus forming the crease lines also have obvious uneven. And Artificial leather feel like plastic, poor resilience, bending down to how many fold line thickness is similar.
3 - Odor identification method:the natural leather has a very strong fur odor, even after treatment, the odor is more apparent, and artificial leather products, the smell of plastic, no smell of fur.
4 - Burning identification method: mainly sniff coke smell and see ash state, natural leather produces scorched fur smell when burning, burning 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, tacky after burning, after cooling hardening into a block.