Meguiar's Gold Class Rich Leather 3-in-1 Treatment

Cleans Top/Full Grain Leather really well – I RECOMMEND it for cleaning rather dirty Top/Full Grain leather. We purchased two excellent quality second hand, craftsman, TOP/Full GRAIN leather recliners. Built to last forever! Top/Full grain leather is the best leather you can buy. In contrast, the much cheaper "Genuine leather" is polyurethane mixed with reconstituted leather scrap, and… Read more

will easily tear and degrade. These recliners are a duck egg colour, and we needed to clean them up and protect the leather. We bought the Meguiars 3-in-1-leather-treatment expecting it to do a good clean and give a reasonable conditioning to the leather. The leather had some very old grime in the creases and a veneer of light grime from probably never having been treated with a leather cleaner. Certainly not horrible, but who wants to sit on old sweat residue and skin detritus? There were a few creases, minute marks and cuts but generally excellent leather for a 30 year old couch. Meguiars also claim UV protection, and that the cleaner is suitable for all leather (NOT SUEDE). Primarily this is probably targeted for cars with full grain leather seats. We initially wiped the recliners with 50% rubbing alcohol, which removed some water soluble grime. Then we gave them two rounds with the Meguiars, using a soft nylon battery operated brush on low speed to assist the process. We did a section at a time, spraying, working it in gently with the brush, then wiping off with a rag. We found there was still a little grime residue after the first treatment, although MUCH grime had been removed. The second treatment got the rest, as the final wipe with the rags testified! The following day we were pleased with the look of the leather, but could see that it really needed nourishment to remain supple. The seats looked a little dry and dull, perhaps because they'd been subjected to more vigorous cleaning. Our final treatment was with Leather Honey to further condition the recliners. The final result is very pleasing, and with regular gentle cleaning and conditioning, the recliners could outlast us! I bought this particular Meguiars product based on reviews of it's cleaning potential, and because it doesn't have a strong odour. It does have some odour, which most people won't dislike. It does the clean really well, but is not necessarily a one stop product if you want your leather to be in perfect condition for decades. If you use it regularly, then you'd probably only need to finish with leather honey every few years! You do have to shake the bottle regularly during application. And check the leather colour is not affected. We did find the initial spray appeared to leave "bleached spots". But with the scrubbing, these disappeared. Probably it was the spot removal of grime we could see. I'd also take a lot of caution before using on "genuine leather", and rub it with a rag, rather than any form of scrubbing, because you will damage "genuine leather" really easily. PU leather is POLYURETHANE, and is not leather. So the Meguiars is probably not suitable for PU "leather".