Is anyone into leather? (water stains)

[breamster]

I've been given a leather bag to clean up that is covered in water stains and marks.

Can anyone recommend a way to bring it back to its former glory?

[dundarach]

Neutral shoe polish?

Light tan polish, carefully applied?

That would be my choice.

[dhutch]

Gliptone liquid leather?

https://www.frost.co.uk/both-gliptone-liquid-leath...

[Dog Star]

dhutch said:

Gliptone liquid leather?

https://www.frost.co.uk/both-gliptone-liquidi-leat...

That won’t do it I don’t think.

I have a similar issue - we bought a lovely dining room set. Mrs DS hung damp towel on the backs of several of the chairs. They now have a stain of the weave of the towels on the surface

[zb]

Fermit with the long name was the leather guy IIRC, not saw him around, hope he's OK.

I've had decent luck getting rid of water marks (well my mates' kids juice) using mr sheen leather wipes, lanolin based. I'd try on a very small section first to see how it goes.

The other one I heard (more for dog star) was to damp the whole area using luke warm fine mist spray (or a damp cloth), then let it dry.

I have used APC spray on the Alcántara seat in my car to good effect, spray on microfiber, then wipe.

edit: mr sheen not mr muscle.

Edited by zb on Friday 21st March 20:19

[breamster]

Just to close this off.

I tried the following without success.
- wetting a section and drying in a controller way.
- soaking with isopropyl alcohol and drying it
- applied some liquid leather stuff (can't remember the brand) tucked in the back of the shed

I think my mistake was not sorting out when it got wet but circumstances didn't allow for that.

In the end I applied some good old fashioned shoe polish. Far from perfect and it's made it darker (which I Like).



The results are far from perfect but it'll do.

[dhutch]

breamster said:

In the end I applied some good old fashioned shoe polish. Far from perfect and it's made it darker (which I Like).

Fair enough. Looks good.