[Roger Koh]

Kev,
You are absolutely right!
1. Example of non-absorbent pigment is pigColor64™.
2. Example of semi-absorbent pigment is semiColor74™.
3. Example of absorbent pigments are napaColor84™ and nubuckColor94™.


Bob,
For mould use this product:
d’Mold3.6™ concentrate - shake well and mix with 10 parts distilled water before use.
Ready-to-use specialty leather cleaner pH value 3.6 is a water-based leathersafe fungicide.
A phenol substitute developed to kill mold growth.
To: Disinfect and control musty odor from mold activities after decontamination cleaning.
For: All leathers - aniline, pure-aniline, semi-aniline, veg-tan, pigmented, bicast, nubuck and suede or woolskin.
Instruction:
1. To remove, contain and dispose mold responsibly in terms of health and the environment.
2. To remove remaining residue - restoration cleaning is recommended with d’Grease4.9™, clean3.8™, rinse3.0™, fatliquor5.0™ prior to disinfecting.
3. To shake well, spray soak and agitate with leatherBrush1™, nubuckBrush2™ or suedeBrush3™.
4. To let dry naturally.
5. To mask odor with a classic leather scent - use leatherScent’B™, D, S or W.


For bacteria use this product:
d’Bacteria3.7™ concentrate - shake well and mix with 21 parts distilled water before use.
Ready-to-use specialty leather cleaner pH value 3.7 is a water-based biodegradable, odorless and colorless leathersafe bactericide.
For: All leathers - aniline, pure-aniline, semi-aniline, veg-tan, pigmented, bicast, nubuck and suede or woolskin.
To: Disinfect and control pungent odor causing bacteria activities after decontamination cleaning.
Instruction:
1. To remove all foreign contamination, restoration cleaning is recommended - use d’Grease4.9™, clean3.8™ and rinse3.0™
2. To shake well, spray bactericide and agitate with leatherBrush1™, nubuckBrush2™ or suedeBrush3™.
3. To inspect when dry, repeat if necessary.
4. To mask odor with a classic leather scent - use leatherScent’B™, D, S or W.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

That's still a nice job though.

Shaun

[Kev Loomes]

Yep, nice one Rog - very impressive. How long did you leave each of the products on?

[Roger Koh]

The product should soak for 4 to 24 hours; cover with tissue paper to allow capillary motion of foreign contamination to wick through the tissue paper!

You will see the stains caught by the tissue paper when dry.


Read more details:

relaxer3.3™ concentrate - warm bottle, shake well and mix with 25 parts distilled water before use.
Ready-to-use specialty leather conditioner pH value 3.3 is a water-based leathersafe leather structure hydrating conditioner.
For: All leathers - aniline, pure-aniline, semi-aniline, veg-tan, pigmented, nubuck, suede and wet-able woolskin.
To: Hydrate dried, cardboard stiffness or shrinkage leathers due to ageing or heat over-exposure prior to fatliquor5.0™.
Saturate leather structure sufficiently to allow colloidal water movement to facilitate hydrogen bonding or capillary motion of foreign contamination.
Instruction:
1. To clean thoroughly with d’Grease4.9™, clean3.8™ and rinse3.0™ prior to relaxer3.3™.
2. To shake well; spray soak and agitate to penetrate into the leather structure.
3. To accelerate structure penetration is by the reverse side, micro cracks, needle holes or perforation on non-absorbent leathers.
4. To effectively penetrate severe stiffness or shrinkage it is recommended to cover with tissue paper and wet thoroughly, wrap with towel follow by plastic to completely seal it.
5. To allow a minimum of 4 to 24 hours of controlled soaking until the leather is fully hydrated and relaxed or penetrated stain dispersed.
6. To unwrap, extract and spray with fatliquor5.0™ while the leather is moist but not wet for a perfect fatliquoring.

Roger Koh
Leather Cleaning Restoration Forum.com

[Roger Koh]

These are examples of how hydrating the leather structure works!

#1 Cat Urine Stain on Semi-Aniline Leather


#2 Soaking by relaxer3.3™ to allow colloidal water movement to facilitate capillary motion of foreign contamination.


#3 Color saturation correction with fratliquor5.0™



Roger Koh
Leather Cleaning Restoration Forum.com

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Roger in the last step are you just spray applying fat laquor ?

Shaun

PS For us mere mortals can you go through the step by steps with out the big words

ie
1. soak with product a
2. clean with product b
3. rinse with product c

Happy for trade names but your way of writing isn't our way of reading and that is where we could be lost in translation.

[Roger Koh]

Fatliquor5.0™ can be used in many ways; one of its usages is to saturate the color intensity of the leather giving it a richer deeper hue.
So colors or dyes are not necessary (safe the color matching headaches).

I wish I can say it more simply (maybe you can help?).

That’s why I always follow up with pictures (save a thousand words)!

But it is still the end results that matter most to our customers!

Roger Koh
Leather Doctor® System

[roger underhill]

Roger,
did you only use rinse and then relaxer on the shoes?

[Roger Koh]

Yes! As the picture shows, it is more of the relaxer3.3™ with a pH of 3.3 (leathersafe) that works within the leather structure that wicks out the foreign contamination.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

The biggest and hardest thing we come across is head grease on Aniline what's the prescription and how would it look? (that should test your memory of your photo library)

Also colour loss on Aniline is there an answer without redyeing?

Shaun

[Roger Koh]

Shaun,

This topic is about "water damage".

For "head grease" stains removal we shall continue discussing from here:

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=65095.0

Anyway this is anoher bonus pictures on child urine stain removal from Aniline Wax Pull-up.

Is urine stain also consider as leather "water damaged" restoration?

Pick your answer!

1. Yes

2. No

3. Not sure



#1 Urine Stains on Wax Pull-up Leathers


#2 Treatment with clean3.8™, rinse3.0™ and relaxer3.3™.


#3 Stains Gone when dry


Roger Koh
Leather Cleaning Restoration Forum.com

[Shaun_Ashmore]

yes

based on appearance.

Shaun

[Kev Loomes]

Is it me or is Roger actually talking sense?

Maybe we cant quite get to grips with his words - but pictures paint a thousand words right?

[Shaun_Ashmore]

The pictures and the knowledge are there to be scene just need Ceefax page 888.

Roger perhaps more simple steps for us simpletons we are having problems keeping up.

Keep posting I think you have now struck the right chord.

Shaun

[carlton care]

Roger

You deserve a great deal of credit for coming back on here and backing up your abilities so well with excellent illustrations, showing that your way of dealing with leather works and works very well.

The more basic treatments available in the UK serve the majority adequately and will no doubt continue to do so, but like a number of others, I love the way you approach what look like unsurmountable problems and resolve them.

robert m

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I agree with Robert, there are certain things you have in your arsenal that we don't have or kust don't know about, keep up the good work but take it easy on the key board

Shaun