How do I clean/treat leather furniture?

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Hi village_life,

There's an earlier thread with more ideas that may help so I've added your thread to it to keep all the suggestions together.

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nuttywoman

I`ve used soap flakes but an upholsterer told me that Dreft was the best. It really does clean the leather up nicely.

pigpen

I use stardrops and a mocrofibre cloth and so does my mother..

knitwit67

Hi, I have 2 leather sofa's that I love, and 3 cats that love them to ( lots of dirty paws and fur). I would like some ideas on the best way to clean and restore them. They are very dry and need some pampering. I heard saddle soap is good but don't know where to get it.
I would be thankful for any suggestions

stiltwalker

For saddle soap you need a tack shop or a farmers store, "countrywide" seems to be a national chain of the type of shop you need so try googling it for the website and putting in your postcode to see if there is one near you - it will at least show you the sort of place you need and you might have an independent more locally.

If it needs a real load of TLC I revamps some old travelling cases years ago with a specialist leather restoring cream that I think I got from an antique place - you could certainly try asking in an antique shop, they might have some or may just know where to buy some.

Ruth on the Edwardian Farm used a mix of beaten egg white and sugar but sounds a bit sticky to me so don't think I'll go with that one.

HTH

pollys

I clean my with some leather cleaner and then conditioning cream from Lakeland, it's takes a while to do but is worth the effort.

Pollys

Sammy-Jo_2

A damp old face flannel (I used a old white one as my sofa is cream colour and didnt want any colour to come out of it) with a moisturising bar of soap wrapped in it. (I used Dove) then use circular motion and just keep rinsing out the cloth when it looks mucky. Picked this tip up from internet about 3 years ago and my sofa looks and feels great! Cheap too!!

Penelope_Penguin

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread on treating leather furniture, to give you more ideas

meritaten

for a quick onceover or to clean sticky fingermarks a wetwipe is fine. otherwise I just use a plain old bar of moisurising soap (the one all the supermarkets sell for about a £1 for 4 large bars) and a damp flannel. then a wipe down with a clean damp flannel and my brown leather sofas come up beautifully! My OH insists on buying packs of leather wipes, but he can use the WHOLE pack when he cleans them, and they dont look any better than when I do them!!!!

mum2twinsx2

i accidiently found johnsons wetwipes with aloe vera clean up my leather sofas up really nice look like new.
the wetwipes have a green stripes through them, they also smell nice