Leather waterproofing products are oil based and use various complex combinations of oils, waxes and sealants to plug up the leather pores thereby creating a barrier to any liquid.
Care should be used before waterproofing any indoor furniture that may be subjected to cat or dog urine. If you favorite pet decides to use your expensive leather furniture as their personal toilet how will you clean up their urine when your waterproofing product has plugged up the pores?
Leather conditioners are oil based and may contain some form of wax. Leather conditioners are not a cleaning product.
Leather conditioners are intended to replace natural oils that may have either evaporated or have rubbed off on clothing.
The lubricating oils do double duty with a secondary function of producing a shine.
Unfortunately leather conditioners may also plug up the pores of the leather making complex cleaning such as urine removal very difficult.
Be careful before purchasing any super concentrated liquid cleaning products and odor eliminators which require user preparation. When you mix the products and they do not work the vendor can always claim user error. You should stay away from cleaning products that require any type of special in the home do it yourself mixing.
One of the most popular selling points for super concentrated cleaning products is that you are saving the environment by conserving resources. The financial resources that are actually being saved are in the shipping industry. The manufacturers don’t want to pay for the additional weight of properly prepared cleaning products. This is the nexus of concentrating cleaning products.
Concentrating liquid cleaning products is a great idea if the do it yourself home user could achieve the wonderful results that are advertised. The likelihood of user error is very high, that is assuming the cleaning products are any good in the first place.
If the super concentrated cleaning products were mediocre to begin with placing the final preparation in the hands of a naïve home user is a sure recipe for failure and disappointment.
Super concentrated liquid cleaning products are most attractive to those consumers that are always looking for a deal. Their personalities are such that they are constantly looking for the very best price on anything that they buy.
Those clever marketing folks know this and mark a large bull’s eye on the foreheads of this type of consumer. They tune their advertisements to appeal to the misplaced sensibilities of the deal oriented consumer. They entice them into the deal by offering what appears to be convenient toll free customer support and too good to be true money back guarantees.
Unfortunately when the super concentrated liquid cleaning products fail to perform the manufacturers and their advertising agents are typically no where to be found.
The current marketing theme is ecologically friendly cleaning products. Green cleaning products are always preferable if they actually work. You conserve valuable resources such as water, plastics, bottles, sprayers and the electricity used in the cleaning products manufacturer. You indirectly reduce green house carbon emissions by reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel fuel needed to transport the products. There is no question that environmentally friendly cleaning products are a very attractive goal.
How ecologically friendly is it when the super concentrated liquid cleaning product fails to perform? How much will you save if you are forced to replace your carpeting and upholstery?
If you are lucky and the super concentrated odor eliminator does not damage your carpeting and upholstery how much have you really saved when you are forced to replace the ineffective cleaning product with a cleaning product that actually works?
The environmental protection agency has done an excellent job of removing harmful chemicals and ingredients from cleaning products that pose any type of risk to the environment. Manufacturers can choose any of the remaining safe ingredients and develop proprietary formulations that actually work.
The word super is a form of exaggeration and exaggerations always leads to lies.