Pebble Grain:
This leather is pebble grains – A horsehair detailing brush is what you need for agitation and terry cotton towel for soil extraction.
It seems like attention is necessary to all the grooves or valleys of grains; where the soiling is.
Absorbency:
I believe that this leather is semi-absorbent – that it will darkens up when it’s wet clean. In such cases (semi-aniline) to retain the suppleness when dry – it’s recommended that its evenly hydrated (evenly darken with no patchiness prior to fatliquoring it).
Staining from Jeans:
Dye transfer stains require the working of Prep-7.7 and effective on all non-organic stains including inks.
Staining from Food:
The protein stains from food including from creams and milk tends to coagulate – that requires a high pH protein remover to deflocculate it.
Staining from Blood:
Old blood stains may appear like rust color especially more apparent on pastel color leathers – may requires the work of d’Tarnish-1.3 after d’Protein-11.0.
Here is the recommended sequence of process:
Phase 1: Restorative Cleaning
Step 1: Apply Prep-7.7 with foam brush and agitate with detail horsehair brush and let dwell at least 30 minutes (longer dwelling time produces better result).
Step 2: Removed suspended soiling with white terry towel.
Step 3: Apply Cleaner-3.8, agitate with horsehair brush and extract suspended soiling until towel shows clean.
Step 4: Apply Rinse-3.0 and extract until towel shows clean.
Step 5: Inspection.
Phase 2: Specialty Stain Removal.
Identify stains and work according to the recommended Problem Solving Guide.
Phase 3: Leather Rejuvenating
Step 1: Apply Hydrator-3.3 to even out appearance.
Step 2: Apply Fatliquor-5.0 to replenished original fatliquor – to maintain leather suppleness.
Phase 4: Leather Non-stick Protection
Step 1: Apply Leather Scent-B (buttery-feel).
This is the recommended kit for Semi-Aniline leathers:
Leather Doctor® Semi-Aniline Leather Care Kit-SA.c (S250.p)
Contents:
Prep-7.7 - 60ml
Cleaner-3.8 - 250ml
Rinse-3.0 - 250ml
Leather Scent-B - 120ml
Hydrator-3.3 - 250ml
Fatliquor-5.0 - 250ml
Leather (horsehair) Brush-1 - 1pc
3” Poly-Brush® - 1pc
Washable Rags - 5pcs
Semi-Aniline Leather Problem Solving Guide
Roger Koh
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