Tips for Leather Care and Cleaning and Conditioning Your Leather Furniture
To keep your leather looking like new, here are some simple things to do:
- Keep your leather supple and sumptuous by moisturizing your leather with mink oil. Jamestowne Fine Leather Conditioner contains Mink Oil.
- Protect and strengthen your leather with Carnauba wax, helping your leather be resistant to scuffs and marring. Carnauba was will also help shield your leather from water moisture. In addition, it will help keep natural oils in your leather and prevent the drying out of your leather. Carnauba wax is the nature’s hardest natural wax. Jamestowne Fine Leather Conditioner contains Carnauba Wax to give you the best protection nature can provide.
- Leather needs to breathe, so do not use heavy waxes that can seal them. Jamestowne Fine Leather Conditioner adds a protective cover to your furniture, but does not seal the leather from the air, so your furniture and other leather products can breathe.
- Protect your leather from drying out, by keeping your leather and leather furniture away from close contact from radiators, air conditioning / heating vents, and other sources of heat.
- Do not place your leather and leather furniture in direct or even indirect sunlight. Some leathers will fade over time.
- Keep your leather free from dust by dusting with a soft cloth, to reduce wear on your leather and leather furniture.
- Water can permanently damage your leather furniture. If a water spill occures, wipe off the water immediately, and apply Jamestowne Fine Leather Conditioner to restore natural oils to your leather furniture.
- Leather that has been water damages is very difficult to restore. As soon as mild water damage has been detected on leather, apply Jamestowne Fine Leather Conditioner. Jamestowne Fine Leather Conditioner will work to improve the condition of your leather. to its pre-water damaged condition.
- Use a liquid to condition and treat your leather, because of the porous nature of leather, leather furniture and leather products can more easily absorb natural oils from a liquid. Jamestowne Fine Furniture Polish is a liquid that both cleans and restores leather.
- Fine leather is soft and luxurious, while being strong and durable, so avoid using or placing sharp objects on leather, so as not to damage, cut, or pierce the leather.
- Do not use leather cleaners or conditioners that contain petroleum or petroleum distillates. Petroleum and petroleum distillates can remove the natural oil from leather, causing the leather to become dry and damaged. Jamestowne Fine Leather Conditioner does not contain petroleum or petroleum distillates.