stackyFACTSWithout massive chemical intervention, leather jackets are essentially just decaying skin.
Without massive chemical intervention, leather jackets are essentially just decaying skin. The traditional tanning process forces raw animal hides into giant drums filled with acidic chromium salts. The chromium atoms violently push themselves between the collagen protein fibers in the skin, physically cross-linking them. This stops bacteria from recognizing the skin as food, forever freezing the flesh as a durable textile.
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