New leather furniture stinks

[Anonymous]

After a period of out-gassing the smell will be less intense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably cured and tanned in China. God only knows what kind of awful chemicals they use over there. Probably full of lead, arsenic and formaldehyde.

Properly tanned leather should have a sweet smell.


Is there ANYTHING the damn Chinese can’t f#ck up?

ALL leather tanning uses terrible chemicals. I work with hazardous waste and most companies aren’t even able to take the fleshings, etc.

Unless you’re buying vegetable tanned leather (which is a very small percentage of US leather), you’re getting all the chemicals you listed above. The chemicals from vegetable tanners still include things like sodium hydroxide and ammonia.

As I know DCUM loves a reference:

https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/ch09/final/c9s15.pdf

I tan my own leather from deer hides and I use nothing but deer brain, salt, water and mineral oil. You don’t need toxic chemicals to cure leather.

[Anonymous]

I tan my own leather from deer hides and I use nothing but deer brain, salt, water and mineral oil. You don’t need toxic chemicals to cure leather.

That's kind of amazing. What do you use the leather for?

[Anonymous]

Probably the interior foam outgassing.

[Anonymous]

happened to us and we called macy's to switch it out and the enext one didn't smell at all

[Anonymous]

Fake leather?