With the improvement of life quality, leather products are favored by consumers all over the world, especially leather car interior accessories, leather furniture and leather clothing. As a high-grade and beautiful material, leather has a wide range of uses and its charm is everlasting.
 
However, due to the limited number of processed animal fur, but also because of the needs of animal protection, leather can not meet all kinds of human needs. Under this background, silica gel skin came into being. You may wonder, is silicone leather real leather? What's the difference between them? Let's take a look.

 

Leather:
Dermal leather is made of animal skin coated with polyurethane (PU) or acrylic resin, which is conceptually different from artificial leather made of chemical fiber materials. The dermis said on the market is generally the first layer of skin, two layers of skin, synthetic skin one of three, mainly based on cowhide.
 
Features: breathable, comfortable feel, strong toughness;
Disadvantages: big smell, easy to change color, nursing difficult, easy hydrolysis, expensive.
 


Silicone leather:
Silicone leather is a kind of synthetic leather products that looks and feels like leather and can be used instead of it. It is usually made on a fabric base and coated with 100% baby silicone.
 
Silicone leather has the advantages of environmental protection, no odor, hydrolysis resistance, weather resistance, antifouling, easy to clean, high and low temperature resistance, acid, alkali and salt resistance, light resistance, heat aging resistance, yellowing resistance, torsion resistance, anti-toxicity, strong color fastness and so on.
 


It can be used in outdoor furniture, yacht, ship, flexible packaging decoration, automobile interior decoration, public facilities, sporting goods, medical equipment and other fields.
 
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