Category: Leather

Consumers are Buying More Leather Than Ever

Why aren’t professionals getting more requests for cleaning leather?

Just like the hard floor trend, too many consumers think that leather is an “easy care” or worse yet “no care” material. While they are finding this not to be true, they are also NOT contacting cleaners to care for their leather. An evidence of the lack of interest in specialty cleaning is the fact that with all of the available leather cleaning training available, few cleaners are being contacted to perform this needed service.

By the time most consumer’s recognize the need for leather care, there is usually permanent damage that cannot be repaired. Another problem that exists is that few cleaners have been proactive in offering consumer affordable “leather conditioning”, but instead only offer very high pricing for restoration level services that are usually not needed.

Cleaners who don’t understand these practical details regarding their customers’ attitude about leather, and the characteristics of leather itself mostly just neglect to make leather cleaning any part of their service mix. Once the decision to “cross leather off their list” is made, the decision not to clean challenging textiles becomes easier as well.

FAQs – Leather Question

Q – I have a question about leather…I was ill advised (or so I believe) on a nubuck cleaner…my beautiful dansko amethyst spinnabucks look oiled from a conditioner (I should have gone with my gut) and I was hoping the degreaser would save them. Do you have any suggestions? Professional cleaning? Or am I just out of luck? Thanks you.

A – I’m afraid the application of a conditioner to Nubuck makes the oiled look fairly permanent, and our products will likely not be able to fix it.

Here’s a hint that the “pros” use: Get some fine sandpaper and gentle sand the area; if your conditioner didn’t penetrate too deeply, you might be able to move down to “new leather” and restore your soft surface texture. The leather might lighten, but it would get you back to the texture and look you want.

Let me know if you still want the products, but I’d say they don’t give you a 10% chance at any restoration.

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