GERMANUS Leather Products: Maintaining

Please don’t use leather care products with our pouches. If you need to remove something from one of our leather products, please use a mild special leather treatment product for the purpose.

We received a question of a customer, who treated one of our products with a saddle soap and he wondered, why the colour changed.
Of course the colour changed. This product was an alkaline soap that can be used, exactly as he mentioned, for saddles and similar leather items that have a totally different treatment (very hard leather quality for heavy use). This soap makes the colour disappear that is the reason that had that affect even to the zipper. These kinds of products are not allowed to be used on our pouches and our leather products in general.

Generally saying, leather items like our pouches cannot be cleaned just maintained. Imagine a leather bag or expensive leather shoes, how can you clean them? Once they got a spot, the spot cannot be removed from the leather. The only thing you can do, is from time to time to pass a cream over them in order to look brighter or to make disappear a superficial scratch. Dirt is also very difficult to remove.

If you actually need to remove something from our leather products, please use a special treatment product. We recommend this:

Important: Some of the used leathers in our products will provide their final look during usage. Like you may know from wild leather, the surface will change in an organic way like only leather does. This is no problem, but the proof of real authentic leather that was used to manufacture the product. It's a very desired effect, in order to deliver the individual look after several months. The leather is an animal skin that grows in one direction just like human skin and hairs do. You can remove those signs to a high degree by simply kneading the leather in the growth direction.