Pecard Antique Leather Dressing 6 oz – Waterproofs, Restores, and Preserves Vintage and Exotic Leathers – Ideal for Oil-Tanned and Chrome-Tanned Leather Goods

Amazing stuff, smooth and clean!Durability:Blessed lubricates with ease!

WOW!! This Antique leather dressing has one a great job restoring a 15 year old leather work bag that unfortunately I neglected and left in a closet for many years. I recently discovered the bag shoved in a corner, all dusty, covered in piles of clothes hangers, stuffed against some cardboard moving boxes. Coupled with the general neglect, this has damaged the leather quite badly.I thought this bag was going to go into the trash pile, but decided to try to salvage it. It wasn't valuable enough to me to send it to a professional leather repair specialist, so I decided to do some research and try to restore it myself. After reading several blogs and forums on leather conditioning and repair, I noticed that Pecard's was one brand name that kept coming up, over and over. After checking out their product line, I decided that due to the age and condition of the bag, this was the product for me, so I ordered it.It arrived in two days because of Amazon Prime, and as soon as the package arrived, I went to work.Applied the first layer with my hands - was pleasantly surprised that this leather dressing does not have a bad smell or texture whatsoever! It had quite a nice texture between my fingertips, and I could see the leather bag literally absorbing this before my eyes. Left the first layer on overnight to continue absorbing, and checked back on the bag the next morning. Everything was absorbed - there was no residue. I could also see the suppleness of the leather starting to come back, and the cracking and peeling diminished. So I applied the second layer, again with my fingertips, and left it overnight again to absorb. This time, I noticed that less of the product had absorbed into the leather, but the bag was significantly less dry and cracked, and a lot softer and supple. There were still some rough spots from where the leather was most badly damaged, so applied a third layer and left it overnight again. By morning, the bag seemed to be mostly back to its original condition (minus the spots where the dye flaked off due to the amount of damage I caused). I was very happy with the results.As a final step, I took some black shoe polish cream I already had, and began applying that to the newly conditioned bag, to try to cover up some of the worn spots from the damage. I realize those spots are irreparable, but between the Pecard's Antique Leather Dressing applications and the shoe polish cream, the bag looks far better than I could have ever hoped to achieve as a DIY.I am very pleased with this product and would definitely order it again.

Excellent product...great for use on leather antiques.

I've got a 100+ year old leather salesmen's bag that was getting pretty dried out. If I'd let it go much longer it was going to start breaking off the leather handle straps and cracking all over. I bought this tub and used most of it to "over" treat this bag. I cleaned it with a damp microfiber towel first. Let it dry. Using a different microfiber towel I started working this stuff in. I did this twice over a full day. The second coat I put on super thick and let it set overnight in a warm area. Next morning I wiped off what hadn't been soaked into the leather. Not the exact way the instructions tell you to do it but I'll tell you what, that bag is soft and flexible again. I treated it back in Dec 2022 and haven't done it again. Bag is still flexible and looking great 7 months later. I even bought another tub and used it on the leather seats of all my cars. Works great. Just use less on the seats. Don't want it to come off on what you're wearing. LOL

Cream works good.

This is an excellent product for leather. I use it on my Harley leather products including motorcycle seats, handlebar tassles, side bags as well as gloves and leather jackets. In addition I use it on outdoor leather boots for wet weather. This product lasts a long, long time.

Leather is much softer and somewhat more water resistant, but darkened substantially.

As advertised, brought back a 50 year old Schott leather jacket back to life. No real smell to it, and applies fairly easy.