# Cleaning car leather
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-car-leather/342803
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 3, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-car-leather/342803 "2006-02-03T06:11:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-car-leather/342803/1 "2006-02-03T06:11:13Z")
I have a stain on one of the leather seats in my car. I have no idea what it is or how it got there, but it won’t come off with warm water & a soft cloth. What are some decent products that will work on this. I’ve never had a stain like this on auto leather. It seems to be really ground in, which is odd because 99.99% of the time I’m the only one in this car and the stain is on the passenger side.
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### Author:  [@PHLT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PHLT)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-car-leather/342803/2 "2006-02-03T06:28:22Z")
Good furniture stores that sell leather furniture a good place to find leather cleaners. Let leather dry natural no hairdryers, etc. Most spots I have run into come out expect a spot of blood a hard one. There is something to remove ink too. If anyone knows how to remove a spot of blood from leather please reply.
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-car-leather/342803/3 "2006-02-03T16:25:09Z")
I use saddle soap (get it anywhere you can get shoe polish), and also a cleaner for car leather. Both prevent drying out the leather. Stained leather is problematic because it’s porous.
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-car-leather/342803/4 "2006-02-03T16:42:48Z")
Armor-All makes a cleaner for leather that comes in wipes; it actually works very well but don’t scrub too hard as it will sometimes take the dye out of cheaper leather.
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-car-leather/342803/5 "2006-02-04T04:53:42Z")
Use saddle soap and then follow up with a product called [Hide Food](http://www.autogeek.net/conhid.html)
The saddle soap cleans, the Hide Food conditions.
You should be able to get Hide Food from many auto parts stores, or a new car dealer’s parts department.