Product Overview
Auto Leather Mold Killer Kit A3.mk by Leather Doctor is a fungicide that kills, disinfects, sanitizes, and deodorizes mold on leather besides cleaning and conditioning.
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What is Mold?
Mold is a living organism where growth is detected by its characteristic musty odor and moldy appearance including leather.
How does Mold Grow?
Mold grows on water-damaged leathers and storing in a humid condition promotes mold growth too.
What are Mold Damages?
Molds cause the biodegradation of natural materials like leather.
Mold growth draws its nutrients from the leather fat and oil resulting in the weakening of the leather tear strength.
Mold progressive infestation on leather will result in unsightly dark sinking pits that may require physical removal with refinishing.
How to Control Mold Growth?
Mold growth is controlled when leather is put in storage by a preventive anti-fungicidal treatment with Leather Mold Killer-3.6
Mold antimicrobial control on leather is just like an antibiotic is a course of medications that has to be administered on an 8-monthly cycle to be long-term effective against re-occurrence.
How to Decontaminate Mold?
Mold effective decontamination process would include the following sequence of steps.
1- Mold growth is removed, contained, and disposed of responsibly in terms of health and the environment.
2- Remaining residue is removed by erasing with good traction using Leather Eraser-4.
3- Clean with Leather Pro Cleaner-1.5 and rinse with Leather Acidifier-2.0 prior to Leather Mold Killer-3.6.
4- Leather Prep-4.4 is an option used for overall preparatory cleaning prior to Leather Pro Cleaner-1.5.
5- Leather Cleaner-3.8 followed by Leather Rinse-3.0 is used for lighter soiling areas.
6- Leather Mold Killer-3.6 fungicide is for disinfecting and controlling musty odor from mold activities after decontamination cleaning.
7- Hydrator-3.3 is used to relax the leather to plump and soft prior to Leather Scent Fatliquor-5.5.
8- Leather Scent Fatliquor-5.5 is used to replenish the conditioner of the leather with fat and oil for leather softness when dry.
9- Leather Scent Protector-B+ is used as a non-stick, rub-resistant protector with a buttery feel.
Why the following Products are Picked as a Holistic System to Decontaminate Mold on Leathers?
The answer is . . .
Leather Prep-4.4 as an Option!
Prep-4.4 is a heavy-duty preparatory cleaner that works well on greasy soiling prior to mold growth that needs to be removed altogether prior to Pro Cleaner-1.5.
Leather Pro Cleaner-1.5 and Leather Acidifier-2.0 system!
Pro Cleaner-1.5 is a water-based restorative cleaner with a low pH value of 1.5 for cleaning, sanitizing, and controlling mold growth.
Acidifier-2.0 is a water-based acidifier rinse that works in sync with Pro Cleaner-1.5 for rinsing, pH balancing, and controlling mold growth.
Leather Cleaner-3.8 and Leather Rinse-3.0 system!
Cleaner-3.8 is a water-based all-purpose mild cleaner with a pH value of 3.8 for cleaning light soiling leathers or a continued extra cleaning all over again and Rinse-3.0 sync as an all-purpose rinse that follows.
Leather Mold Killer-3.6!
Mold Killer-3.6 is a fungicide treatment that will last up to 8 months to disinfect and control musty odor from mold living activities.
Leather Hydrator-3.3 and Leather Scent Fatliquor-5.5 system!
Hydrator-3.3 is a water-based pH 3.3 hydrator used to relax leather fibers and separate them preconditioning for better fat and oil conditioning penetration and distribution.
Fatliquor-5.5 is the leather scent version of Fatliquor-5.0 with an extra classic leather scent to mask the unpleasant musty odor, besides is to soften the leather when dry with suppleness.
Leather Scent Protector-B+!
Leather Scent Protector-B+ is the leather scent version of Leather Protector-B with an extra classic leather scent to mask the unpleasant musty odor, besides is to impart a non-stick, rub-resistant protector with a buttery feel.
Why Products in Concentrates?
Concentrate product has an indefinite shelf life, does not freeze, has less handling damage, and save on shipping weight.
Concentrates in the bottle have to be cut/mixed with distilled water prior to use.
How to work with Leather Prep-4.4?
1- Prep-4.4 works with a horsehair Leather Brush-1 for brushing, Eraser-4 for erasing and spreading it to allow for a sufficient dwell time of 15 mins to an hour for penetrating, lubricating, and suspending the soiling, then brush and erase again prior to towel extraction, until towel shows clean.
How to work with Leather Pro Cleaner-1.5 and Leather Acidifier-2.0 system?
1- Pro Cleaner-1.5 is sprayed and works with horsehair Leather Brush-1 together with Leather Eraser-4 for better traction soiling removal.
2- Towel-5 or a lint-free towel is used to extract suspended soiling and repeat changing folding sides until the towel shows clean.
3- Acidifier-2.0 is sprayed and works again with horsehair Leather Brush-1 together with Leather Eraser-4 for better traction soiling removal.
4- Towel-5 or a lint-free towel is used again to extract suspended soiling and repeat changing folding sides until the towel shows clean.
How to work with Leather Cleaner-3.8 and Leather Rinse-3.0 system?
1- Cleaner-3.8 is sprayed and works again with horsehair Leather Brush-1 together with Leather Eraser-4 for better traction soiling removal.
2- Towel-5 or a lint-free towel is used again to extract suspended soiling and repeat change folding sides until the towel shows clean.
3- Rinse-3.0 is sprayed and works again with horsehair Leather Brush-1 together with Leather Eraser-4 for better traction soiling removal.
4- Towel-5 or a lint-free towel is used again to extract suspended soiling and repeat changing folding sides until the towel shows clean.
How to work with Leather Mold Killer-3.6?
1- Mold Killer-3.6 when spraying a breathing mask is recommended, and spread with a horsehair Leather Brush-1 soaking into the leather with an even appearance and letting dry naturally.
How to work with Leather Hydrator-3.3 and Leather Scent Fatliquor-5.5 system?
1- Hydrator-3.3 is sprayed and brushed using a horsehair Leather Brush-1 to distribute and be absorbed into the leather structure.
2- When the leather appears evenly with moisture saturation, staking, massaging, and flexing return the leather to fatliquor pre-dried dimension and is ready for fatliquor top-up conditioning.
3- Fatliquor-5.5 is sprayed and brushed using a horsehair Leather Brush-1 to distribute and be absorbed into the leather structure.
4- Fatliquor-5.5 is repeatedly applied each time the water content evaporates and until the leather takes no more.
5- Fatliquor-5.5 top-up fat and oil is left to slow natural drying and before it is fully dried, staking, massaging, or flexing until fully dry will result in a softer leather.
How to work with Leather Scent Protector-B+?
1- Protector-S+ is sprayed and spread with a folding towel for a even appearance, let dry and is ready to use.
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