Aniline Leather Barrier Product from Leather Solutions - NEW!
Pamela at Leather Solutions tells me of this new product that has been developed for pure aniline leathers to give it a barrier against stains and UV rays. It's quite pricey at $ 70 a bottle as you can see, so I only ordered (4) bottles, one of which I have taken home to use as a test sample, first on a swatch of high-end leather and then I will apply to my new H&M chair that I brought home three weeks ago. I grew up in Missouri, the "Show Me" state, so before I jump in and tell YOU this is the greatest thing since sliced bread I want to see for myself and report back. The UV will be the harder test, because that takes years to fade on a typical pure aniline hide, so my intent is to leave my test sample out on the deck during all daylight hours to see what full exposure direct sun will do.
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One of the things that I cannot easily test for is body oil stains. Some people have chemical make-ups from their skin that stain leather (especially folks on heavy medications). I am told this will barrier against that, but have no way to test for that as no one in my house has that sort of thing.
So, onto the first test. I have coated the bottom half of this sample with the new product, and the top half is naked. This is H&M Quintessence leather, which is a class 4, naked leather. I asked my wife what are the stains she would be most concerned about and with what she and I came up with is what you see here. I did not use things from the garage like motor oil, bleach or ammonia, as that's not things you would anticipate as spills on leather.
Here's the first photo, done as soon as all was applied. As you can see, the wine (which many people seem concerned about) didn't really bother the naked leather - but the two oils sure did. All stayed on the leather for about 5 minutes. After I took this photo, I simply blotted up all the excess and set the swatch off to the side. Will photo it again in 24 hours, then 48. And then a week later so stay tuned to more entries to this thread.
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Note there is some edge bleed on the OIL portions of the Protected area, this is the oil coming on from the side and bleeding into the hide, its the main strip you want to focus on, not the edge bleed.
Last edited by drcollie; 09-05-2016 at 08:49 PM.
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