LRC18 Gel Degreaser How To Remove Head Grease On Leather Leather Repair Company

The gel degreaser is a thick paste designed to lift out head grease and sweat that’s soaked into your leather items.
Head grease is common on the back of leather couches on the top part of the leather sofa, you then get a lot of sweat marks on arms where your arms resting on the time on the leather furniture arm, this builds up heat and you sweat the leather will absorb this in time causing very dark patches to appear.
Removal of head grease and sweat on leather arms may have to be done several times before it’s fully extracted.
Head grease is very common the rear of sofas where your sat down resting or even falling asleep on your leather couch. In particular if you have little to no hair this can cause a quick build up of heat, causing the sweat to penetrate the surface causing a darkening stain to appear.
This can also happen to people with a full head of hair, but from hair dyes, they can release onto the leather settee back causing the dye to settle on the surface of the leather causing the darker patches to appear as it has dyed the leather surface.
It’s also believed that some medications can cause you to sweat differently and release toxins through your skins pores, this becomes a chemical in the sweat which causes the coloured surface on leather to break down.
You will find this is very common on the collar of leather jackets and around the cuffs of leather jackets where your skin is in direct contact with the leather jacket.
Purpose
The gel degreaser can be used a large number of leathers and items, from clothing to car interiors, furniture to handbags, shoes to table tops and so much more.
You may find after using this product that you have to carry out a colour restoration process as it can draw out the colour as well, where the grease has attacked the leather and broken down the coloured surface, colouring kits can be found here starting from a small colour repair kit.
Application Of Gel Degreaser.
Applying the gel degreaser is best carried out with a spatula or similar. Always make sure the lids left on when not using this product as the solvent liquid will evaporate if left off. Spread the gel evenly over the surface, a good thickish coating is required, making sure you cover up all surrounding areas as the solvents within the gel degreaser will strip the colour from the leather around it if you spill some on these areas.
With most gel degreaser extraction, colour will be pulled out or has already been pulled out due to the grease making the surface sticky.
Once you have applied the gel degreaser to the surface leave this to dry, it will end up looking like a white powder on the surface this can then be vacuumed off making sure you are in contact with the leather surface as this will help suck out the grease in the leather where the gel degreaser has broken it down to release it.
As a guide you can tell if you have head grease or sweat in leather as the colour of the degrease when dry will be a greeny brown colour, you need to repeat this process until the degreaser when dry is a pure white colour.
Once all grease or sweat has been removed, you can then proceed to the next steps, giving the full areas a full prep ready to recolour or to apply new dye.
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[@howardaspill736]

Do you provide a refurb service ?

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@@howardaspill736 please email details to [e-mail]

[@howardaspill736]

@@LeatherRepairUK can I ask where you’re based, I’m in Manchester but will be in London tomorrow

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@@howardaspill736 we are in Hull

[@timarnold7239]

Sorry but it appears that the leather is destroyed.

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@@timarnold7239 no Its far from that we are removing head grease
When you remove head grease that’s got into the collagen fibres you have to use a gel degreaser designed for leather
When carrying this out it will remove colour in most cases as the head grease has removed some of the colour already where it’s made all the surface go sticky and tacky from the grease
Once the head grease is removed you paint the leather again and it’s back to new once more