HOW TO REMOVE SCRATCHES FROM ANILINE LEATHER

Scratches on aniline leather are very common, it's the nature of the leather and can't be avoided.

How to assess if your sofa is an aniline leather

  • The leather is very absobent and liquids soak immediately in to the leather
  • If you run your fingernail lightly over the surface it will leave a light scracth in the surface
Why does it scratch so easily?
This type of leather is very natural and treated with dyes and oils or waxes, when anything drags over the surface, even lightly, it moves the dye away from the surface leaving a ligter mark which most people would interpretate as a scratch.
Remember not to panic as these scratches aren't damage they're only pressure marks

How can the scratches be removed?

  • Clean the surface using using our gentle leather cleaner, this will open the pores of the leather enabling better penetration of leather creams.
  • Apply our Luxury intensive leather cream, this nourishes the leather and re-moisturises the the dye in the leather bringing it back to the surface helping to blend out the light pressure marks.
Pull up Aniline leathers tend to mark more easily than oiled aniline leather, our luxury leather cream is ideal forall types of anilines especially pull up leather.
And don't fret about these little imperfections, it's all part of its natual beauty and character along with the stories it has to tell over time.




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