GreekPower

yea i follow the directions im just saying is there any tricks like buffing it or something cause theres no way i see it ever bringing leather back to natural feeling.

 

bandoni™

just put the lexoil on a rag kneed it into the leather, repeat till it feels softer. what I use to do when restoring saddles was to spread the applications over like a week time period. giving the leather a lexoil treatment once a day. you have to give the lexoil time to soak in.

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Good leather info -

" Leather cleaning & conditioning explained.

Lanolin, mink oil, aloe, banana oil, collagen, Neatsfoot Oil...What are all these ingredients?

What's really good for leather and what's marketing hype?

To find out, we went to Summit Industries, the manufacturer of Lexol® leather care products and a world respected leader in leather care."

http://www.properautocare.com/leclcoex.html

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Triggerman

In fact, saddle soap is a very poor cleaner. It must first dissolve its own oils, limiting its capacity to dissolve dirt and oils in the leather. Saddle soap is also inherently alkaline but alkalinity is damaging to leather. Another problem arises during application. Most saddle soaps instruct the user to work the lather into the leather. Since loosened dirt is suspended in the lather, it is pushed back into the leather's pores.

Saddle soaps have long been replaced in tanneries by modern emulsions which penetrate, soften and condition with greater ease and stability. The popular myth of saddle soap as a cleaner however persists as modern folklore.

From the Lexol leather care web page.

G1goldcoupe

The guys at a local detailing shop recomended lexol to me, and said they applied it by hand (no rag). So I checked out it's MaterialSafetyDataSheet and it has no nasty stuff. I tried rubbing it in by hand and found it waaaay easier and quicker than using a cloth, you can get into nooks and crannies easier and it makes the conditioner last longer with nothing being soaked up by a cloth.

When I first got my olg G1 I went on the research hunt and also read that saddle products were not good for long term on car leather, I read what Triggerman is mentioning about alkalinity. I eventually found a product out of the UK called Liquid leather (I posted about it then), it worked well, but it was the leather smell it reinstituted for a couple of weeks that was cool. When I ran low I picked up the lexol because it was easy to get, seems alright so far. Leaves the leather VERY shiny at first, but within a day or so it dulls and feels good. I might order some more Liquid Leather for the smell again.

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