What's your favorite leather treatment products?

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Alexshimshimhae

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Now I'm sure you all have your own personal favorites, but I'd like to break it down as such



Regular Maintenance



Cleaner



Protectant



Beat up leather



Stains
 
When it's clean,

I'll wipe down with damp ONR towel

303 aerospace protectant



For everything else I'm not sure....maybe I'll pick up Meg's leather stuff for good condition leather, but stained (like arm rests from constantly leaning on it)?
 
I've turned to Adams leather products time and again with good results. I thought Lexol was horrible. I've also used Leatherique and if you have the time-that's the best. On trashed leather, i'll typically make a cocktail of water, Megs APC and carpet shampoo. Saturating/scrubbing/wiping/repeating until satisfied. I also want to add a steam cleaner to my line up, which are moderately priced at $80ish and will lift pretty much anything.
 
tssdetailing said:
I've turned to Adams leather products time and again with good results. I thought Lexol was horrible. I've also used Leatherique and if you have the time-that's the best. On trashed leather, i'll typically make a cocktail of water, Megs APC and carpet shampoo. Saturating/scrubbing/wiping/repeating until satisfied. I also want to add a steam cleaner to my line up, which are moderately priced at $80ish and will lift pretty much anything.
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Yea I was actually hope someone would bring that up--I saw a detail where someone used a steam cleaner wrapped in what looks like a MF towel to clean, I would've thought that the steam would damage or harden the leather a bit....
 
tssdetailing said:
I also want to add a steam cleaner to my line up, which are moderately priced at $80ish and will lift pretty much anything.
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Steam cleaner as in machine? or 80 bux for the solution?





Rob Tomlin said:
Optimum Leather Protectant
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What do you like about the optimum LP? and does it also clean? anything I should know about it in particular?
 
Alexshimshimhae said:
Now I'm sure you all have your own personal favorites, but I'd like to break it down as such



Regular Maintenance - Wet towel with plain water



Cleaner - Leather Masters and/or Optimum Power Clean



Protectant - Leather Masters



Beat up leather - LM / PC



Stains - Leather Doctor
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I really like using the LeatherMasters system personally. I feel its the safest product for leather. I'm still getting used to the Leather Doctor sytem as well. For regular maintenance I wet wipe leather with a wet towel.
 
I guess they're considered sweat stains? but you know how the leather gets discolored from people constantly touching it? like the center console?--do you consider that a LM job? or does that get tossed into the general 'stain' category (only reason I'm asking is because someone mentioned that it was different because something about that particular kind of stain being different or something?)
 
Either sweat or the body oils. Depends on how often you clean your car. If you wipe down the interior of your car every time you wash it then that should be enough to remove light build up. If not, add some OPC/LM to your towel dampening bucket and you should be fine. If not go right to the spray and wipe application.
 
did you ever run into a situation where the leather needed to be conditioned or softened ? any pointers on that? (sorry I must sound like that 5 year old that comes back with the million 'why?'s )
 
You'd me amazed how much healthier leather will feel after it's cleaned and wiped down with a wet towel. Try Leatherique for that soft feeling.
 
David Fermani said:
I really like using the LeatherMasters system personally. I feel its the safest product for leather. I'm still getting used to the Leather Doctor sytem as well. For regular maintenance I wet wipe leather with a wet towel.
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I agree, LM is great stuff. The best part about it is that it does not alter the looks of the leather. I hate stuff that darkens and especially hate stuff that adds a sheen. It also does not have a fake leather smell. For day to day cleaning though, I still use Woolite 20:1 and reserve LM strong for semi annual cleanings.
 
oh and what do you guys do about the threading? like my bmw has creme/tan/light leather and the threading is getting dirty too...how do you guys go about this? so you address that first and THEN treat leather? or does LM also clean the threading (I doubt it but i'm hoping?)
 
David Fermani said:
I really like using the LeatherMasters system personally. I feel its the safest product for leather. I'm still getting used to the Leather Doctor sytem as well. For regular maintenance I wet wipe leather with a wet towel.
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I too use LeatherMasters most of the time. But the Sonus stuff works well on some leathers and their "no rinse" cleaner can be good to have on hand.



But to be honest, 90-some% of the time I just wipe the leather off with some Griot's Interior Cleaner on a damp towel and leave it at that. I hardly *ever* treat my auto leather and it still does just fine....from my wife's daily driver ('00 Audi, maybe treated three or four times since new) to the leather in the Yukon XLD (daily dog-hauler!), IME leather that's kept decently clean just doesn't need much.



Older/special-case vehicles can be, well....special, but most of the time I think you could get by with just the LeatherMasters stuff and that's a simple way to have the "automotive leather" stuff covered without getting too complicated about it.
 
Alexshimshimhae said:
well if you do, if it's not too much trouble, a write up would be most appreciated =]
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I think this is what you are looking for "a leather problem solving guide - one for pigmented and one for aniline leathers; and some of the problem can be further discuss from this guide; including your favorites and using Leather Master as the benchmark for comparative study.





Micro-Pigmented Leathers Problem Solving Guide

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Aniline Leathers Problem Solving Guide

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Roger Koh

info@leatherdoctor.org
 
Roger Koh- Hey, that's a very informative set of charts! Thanks for posting them.



wascallyrabbit said:
using leather doctor system now. was using leather masters system. would like to try out ltt leather system sometime as well.
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I'd be interested to hear how you think the LM and LD systems compare.
 
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