LEATHER CLEANER

Clean and nourish your car’s luxurious hide trim with these top buys

A LEATHER interior may be an option drivers aspire to, but few realise it needs more attention than fabric upholstery. As a natural product it needs to be cleaned and nourished regularly to replace the oils that keep it supple and prevent cracking.

If you regularly use seat heaters, hides should be treated more frequently as the higher temperatures dry out the oils more quickly. A key part of our leather test is to see just how much protection is left on the cleaned hide by measuring how long it takes for a water droplet to soak in. We also wanted a good cleaner, so we assessed how much grime was removed from our scrapyard seat, but also added pen ink to see how the products dealt with this. The final results also took into account ease of use and price.