User Guide

● Buff with dry cloth to remove excess moisture.
● Follow up with leather cleaner, and condition the leather after the stain is lifted.
Odor
Bad odors can be caused by numerous problems, including smoke, cigarette smoke, prolonged
wetness, bad manufacturing, bad leather treatments, body fluids, and many other variables.
Leather is porous and will absorb scents quickly. If your leather has had prolonged exposure to
smoke, it may endure permanent chemical damage that can only come out with time. Here are a
few tricks:
● Clean and condition your leather. Dry outside on windy day (but avoid prolonged exposure
to sunlight and direct heat). Repeat this treatment over the course of several weeks.
● If this fails, place leather inside pillow case with liberal portion of baking soda and leave
sitting overnight. Additionally, you could wrap newspapers around scented area for a time.
Baking soda, cornstarch and newspapers can pull odors out of leather.
● Lastly, try allowing the leather to age naturally, and give it lots of use and time outdoors
breaking in. Leather takes in everything around it and adapts to its environment. Plenty of
exposure to pleasant environments makes for pleasantly scented leather.
Growing Patina
Patina is a collage of beautiful colors and patterns that may or may not grow naturally overtime
on your leather. It more frequently occurs on natural leathers such as vegetable tanned and
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