Colin's Leather Cleaner

LEATHER CLEANER is put to work after all the metal on a saddle has been polished.

This is a product I DID invent out of sheer necessity, over a quarter of a century ago. I have always taken in saddles and restored them, often overnight at shows, so I needed a product that would entirely strip the old leather of oils and dust accumulated over sometimes decades!

All other products on the market claim to be "cleaners" but they are not. They simply cover the old leather and make it look "new." So-called "saddle soap" is what I used until I invented my own cleaner that actually strips the leather and opens up the pores.

Using the SPONGE supplied, squirt leather cleaner on and dip it into a bucket of clean water and gently scrub the leather.

You will see the dirt and old oils rising to the surface. Then briskly hose it with clean water, to get all the stuff off the leather, then immediately towel dry and then let it dry in natural sunlight. 

When the leather is dry in a natural environment (no artificial heat!!)  then immediately apply the COLIN OIL and watch it soak into the leather thru the pores. When the oil stops vanishing you have filled the leather, and essentially given your leather an "oil change."

Thus you accomplish a process that used to happen when the beast wearing this hide was alive. We cleverly removed the skin, but also then denied the leather nourishment from natural oils that the beast produced. If you maintain leather in this way, it will outlast your lifetime.

Little and often is the key. Keep a square of sheepskin permeated with COLIN OIL for regular and quick rubs. You spend more than two minutes doing this every couple of weeks, you are wasting time!

WARNING: If you let the leather get so dry it cracks, then the life of the leather is over. Nothing can save it. And it will complete the final life cycle, dust to dust. A complete "oil change" once a year is recommended.