Product Overview
Aniline Leather Care Kit A3 by Leather Doctor spots, cleans, rinses, hydrates, softens, and conditions in preventive, routine, periodic, and restorative leather care.
Aniline leather color is derived from a transparent dyestuff dyed through to the reverse suede side. Most often the surface is further dye coated to even out appearance and sealed with a urethane clear gloss topcoat to bring the beauty of the grain show through. Microcrazing develops sooner making the leather more comfortable in transpiration and increasing absorbency. Take good care of aniline leather, even unused, it will still dry up and softness turns to stiffness especially when exposed to heat or sunlight, and the color fades. Color is refreshed periodically by hydrating the dormant dyestuff within the leather structure to resurface. Unnatural creases, wrinkles, or curls need hydration to relax and stretch before replenishing the diminishing fat and oil. Fatliquor keeps the leather supple, and soft with strength, making it less absorbent, as aniline leather is both hydrophilic and oleophilic, easily liquid stain. A cycle of care matching the severity of the soiling maintains its highest level of appearance, softness, strength, and feel of touch at all times.
Kit A3 concentrates require 1070g or 1.2 quart distilled water to be mixed and added to 1.5 inches below the top of the 8oz bottles before use.
Instruction:
Prep 4.4 a leather-safe pH4.4 restorative cleaner, works on general accumulated soiling and aged conditioners.
1.1: Prep 4.4 is applied thinly and works with a horsehair brush on heavily soiled areas.
1.2: Prep 4.4 suspended soiling is towel extracted before dries until it shows clean and continues general cleaning with Cleaner 3.8.
Cleaner 3.8 is a leather-safe pH3.8 mild cleaner that is particularly effective in emulsifying and suspending oily soils without common side effects. It works over after Prep 4.4 and extends the entire section without leaving a dry edge. Cleaner 3.8 holistic cleaning and rinsing sequence with Rinse 3.0 returns residue free to its pH chemistry integrity.
2.1: Cleaner 3.8 concentrate 1: 64 is mixed with 224g distilled water or 1.5 inches from the top of the 8oz bottle before use.
2.2: Cleaner 3.8 is applied and brushed with a horsehair Brush 1.
2.3: Cleaner 3.8 suspended soiling is extracted with a dry absorbent towel until it shows clean and proceed to rinse with Rinse 3.0
Rinse 3.0 is a pH3.0 rinse for removing suspended soil and strengthening the pH chemistry integrity of leather. It removes suspended soiling by towel extraction while neutralizing harmful alkaline residues and charging the leather ionic positive (+ve) to increase the attraction between the ionic negative (-ve) tanning agent, dyestuff, and fat liquor from tackiness, bleeding, and stiffness.
3.1: Rinse 3.0 concentrate 1: 80 is mixed with 224g distilled water or 1.5 inches from the top of the 8oz bottle before use.
3.2: Rinse 3.0 is applied, brushed, and suspended soiling is extracted with a dry absorbent towel and ready with hydrating.
Hydrator 3.3 is a pH3.3 hydrating conditioner to relax and stretch out the stiffness, creases, and wrinkles before fat liquoring. It facilitates colloidal water movement, reactivating the dormant dyestuff to resurface and reducing surface inter-facial tension for an even appearance.
4.1: Hydrator 3.3 concentrate 1: 25 is mixed with 218g distilled water or 1.5 inches from the top of the 8oz bottle before use.
4.2: Hydrator 3.3 is applied and brushed with a deep even saturating appearance, massaged, and stretched to dimension, before proceeding with fatliquoring.
5.1: Fatliquor 5.0 is a pH5.0 micro-emulsion of fat, oil, and water for rejuvenating, restoring, and softening stiff water and heat-damaged leather.
5.2: Fatliquor 5.0 concentrate 1: 5 requires 189g of distilled water or mixing up to 1.5 inches below the 8oz bottle top before ready to use.
5.3: Fatliquor 5.0 is applied and redistributed following the same success technique as Hydrator 3.3.
5.4: Fatliquor 5.0 application is repeated each cycle water contents evaporates.
5.5: Fatliquor 5.0 application ends when the leather absorbs no more and is left to natural drying.
5.6: Fatliquor 5.0 dried sticky residue is rinsed off with Hydrator 3.3.
5.7: Fat-liquored leather is left to dry naturally for extra softness.
5.8: Fat-liquored leather is further staked, massaged, or flexed accordingly with a little wet back with Hydrator 3.3 until dry for extra suppleness.
Protector B is a buttery-feel, nonstick, rub-resistant conditioner that reduces leather wear and rubbing noises. Its non-film-forming maintains the leather's essential breathability and helps stop contact squeaking noises. Its natural buttery-feel conditioning increases resistance to rubs and reduces stretch, scuff, and abrasion.
People Also Ask:
1: What is a Preventive Care System for Aniline Leather?
2: What is a Routine Care System for Aniline Leather?
3: What is a Periodic Care System for Aniline Leather?
4: How to Identify Leather Stains?
5: How to Use Aniline Leather Problem Matrix?
6: Technical Help and Support?
1: What is a Preventive Care System for Aniline Leather?
A preventive care system for aniline leather is the initial surface conditioner Protector B applied before putting it to use to impart the leather with a buttery feel that enhances the leather luxuriously to the sense of touch; a nonstick surface that shields the leather from sticky soiling thus prolonging a high level of appearance; a rub-resistant ability reduces friction noises that translate into less friction wear; and the optional leather scent diffuses a classic leather scent that boosts the sensuous leather more appealing to the leather lover.
2: What is a Routine Care System for Aniline Leather?
A routine care system for aniline leather includes procedures such as dusting, cleaning, and attending to spots and stains as required especially the pH balancing of sweat stains from shifting alkaline, thus preventing the leather from tackiness. A routine nonstick rub-resistant conditioning after neutralizing rinse helps keep leather attractive and healthy while preventing premature wear.
3: What is a Periodic Care System for Aniline Leather?
A periodic care system for aniline leather is recommended before soiling causes damage to the finishing; this keeps leather consistently clean and healthy at all times; body contact areas would require more frequent attention than the unused areas; while the leather headrest, hand rest, handles, etc gets the most of body oil and sweat.
4: What is a Restorative Care System for Aniline Leather?
A restorative care system for aniline leather is the ultimate restorative or salvage care system that removes accumulated soiling including aged conditioners, and accumulated soiling that fills creases is often mistaken for cracks.
5: How to Identify Leather Stains?
Stains are identified by: Appearance, Odor, Color, Feel-of-Hand, Location, and Buildup or Absorbed!
5.1: Appearance
5.2: Stain identification by appearance will show whether it is characteristic of a spill, rub-on, penetrated, or deposited.
5.3: Stain may also reveal dye or finish damages caused by the stain.
5.4: Odor
5.5: Odor-by-smell identification can be helpful in positive stain identification.
5.6: Odors identified by smell are common with mold, smoke, putrid, or ammonia from urine.
5.7: Color
5.8: Color stain identification will also give a clue to the staining stuff.
5.9: Color stains from beverages, nail polish, lipstick, blood, or others could all appear red.
5.10: Color identification may not be right with time and oxidization, a red bloodstain may turn from tan to black.
5.11: Colored leather may mesmerize or alter the appearance of the stain.
5.12: Feel of Hand
5.13: Feel-of-hand stain identification may help determine the stain types.
5.14: Feel sticky and appear red from candy, beverage, or other sugar substances.
5.15: Feel brittle and stiff could be a nail polish, shellac, or paint stain.
5:16: Feel the smear by hand could be a grease-base stain as lipstick.
5.17: Location
5.18: Location may give a clue as to the makeup of the staining substance in visual inspection and identification.
5.19: Locations on the headrest and the armrest of furniture are common with dark stains from body oil, grease, and sweat.
5.20: Buildup or Absorbed
5.21: Stains may take several appearances.
5.22: Stains accumulate mostly on top of non-absorbent-coated leathers.
5.23: Stains are mostly absorbed on unfinished, Vachetta, aniline, and nubuck leathers.
5.24: Stains can also be combined, absorbed, and built up.
5.25: Stains absorbed indicate it was a liquid before it penetrated the leather.
5.26: Stains that are liquid stain may have chemically changed, destabilized the leather's pH chemistry integrity, and altered its appearance.
5.27: Example of sweat stains often react with absorbent leathers and denature them.
5.28: Examples of stains affecting the tanning agent manifest as tackiness when dry and sliminess when wet are detected by the feel of the hand.
5.29: Examples of stains affecting the dyestuff occur when color appears during wet wiping with a white absorbent towel.
5.30: Examples of stains affecting the fat liquor leaching out as leather spews, stiffens, loses its tensile strength, and cracks when stressed.
5.31: In any event, the leather may show a marked color change in that area after spotting, and possibly after cleaning.
5.32: Examples of built-up stains include paint and some foodstuff, etc.
5.33: Examples of absorbed stains include beverages, wine, tea, coffee, etc.
5.34: Examples of combination stains include lipstick, ink, mustard, etc.
5.35: Most absorbed stains will have part of their staining stuff absorbed into the leather and part accumulated on its surface.
5.36: A stain may also be a substance that has wet solvent-soluble and dry solvent-soluble components combined.
5.37: Examples of a compound stain would be gravy which contains grease, flour (from a plant), and milk (from an animal).
5.38: Examples of paint-type stains are readily detected because of their stiff nature and generally bright colors and they seem to be sitting on top of the leather
5.39: When identifying stains always try to determine whether they are of a protein, cellulose, oil-based, or a colloidal make-up in nature.
5.40: Three common types of soiling or stain are solvent-soluble, water-soluble, and insoluble.
5.41: Stains are often of a combination in nature, and in most instances, there will be no information regarding the stain especially if they are bought used.
Aniline Leather Problem Solving Matrix?
6: How to Use Aniline Leather Problem Solving Matrix?
Problems associated with Aniline leathers are grouped as Soil, Stain, Odor, Finish, and Structure in the left column, and the products recommended are listed on the first row. The numbers represent the sequence of steps to solve a problem holistically. For example, an unknown compound problem may include soil, stain, and odor, and they can be combined in a line sequence to reduce duplicating that ends with Hydrator 3.3, Fatliquor 5.0, and Protector B..
7: Technical Help and Support?
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Updated January 6, 2025, by Roger Koh.