To return the leather to how it was before, without further damaging it by removing the silicone spray:
Removing silicone on a smooth non-absorbent surface has proven to be successful without damaging to the leather by using Prep-7.7.
This product with a pH of 7.7 is not recommended to be used on your glove soft leather, as the alkalinity may affect the pH sensitive dyes.
The leather safe version is using Prep-4.4 less effective but safer on aniline leathers, however it has no proven record use to remove silicone from aniline leathers yet; you may be the first to try on it.
The technique to remove is by dwelling the Prep-4.4 for the product to work on the silicone maybe up to 24 hours; follows by cleaning the sticky residue with Cleaner-3.8, then rinse.
The suspended silicone that is reabsorbed into the leather structure has to be wick out by using Hydrator-3.3.
So the steps involved Prep-4.4 > Cleaner-3.8 > Rinse-3.0 > Hydrator-3.3
This cleaning sequence objective is to remove the unpleasantly darker shade side effect from the silicone spray.
doesn't feel nearly as soft
The solvent contents of the silicone spray have cause the drying up of the fatliquor with shrinkage that result in stiffness to the leather.
Softness and strength is restored by replenishing Fatliquor-5.0.
It would be good if we can see some pictures to confirm that the above recommendation applies to your situation.
Roger Koh
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