How To Remove Color Stain From Leather Bag: 3 Steps

Leather handbags are one of the most used women’s accessories in modern times. Taking care of leather material is essential before damaging our expensive bag.   c

Denim clothes or any other chemical-colored clothes may stain your leather bag or purse if you carry them daily.  So it is important to know how to remove color stain from leather bag.

Make sure you first see how color transfer has damaged your purse, especially when you have a high-quality, expensive leather bag or purse. 

Depending on the color of the stain, you may want to use this tip; otherwise, if you have an expensive leather bag, I recommend going to a leather repairer who can easily recognize the stain and repair it.

In this blog post, I will include a tip that includes the use of Leather Cleaner and Leather Conditioner. A professional-grade cleaner will be needed to remove ingrained color transfer, but it will also strip your bag of its existing pigment.

Nevertheless, if you want to take a look at it yourself to see if it’s just a superficial color transfer, you can follow these steps:

How to Remove Color Stain From Leather Bag

The first tip on our blog post is an easy-to-perform DIY tip. So if you want to take the risk and remove the colour stain for yourself, then follow these steps.

You’ll Need

• Leather Care Kit (Leather Cleaner + Leather Conditioner)
• Marula oil (optional in place of Leather Conditioner)
• 2-3 Tissue Papers
• Clean Cotton Clothes

Before we continue, you should buy a leather care kit, or if you already have one, it’s a win-win situation for you. You may have read that some people use baking soda, vinegar, or even cleaning cream with micro crystals, but I don’t recommend it. So beware of what you are using.

Step 1: Use Leather Cleaner to Remove Residue

Note: Before you use, check the quality of leather cleaner you have, or if you want to buy then this leather care kit from the brand Chemical Guys could be perfect for you.

So these following steps:

• Spray a little bit of leather cleaner on the surface where the color stain has occurred.
• Take a clean tissue and rub the surface with slight pressure.
• Now we will remove the excess with new tissue paper.
• After doing this process, take your time. It may take time for the leather surface to rest in between.

If the color stain remains sustained after a few attempts, I suggest you go through step 2, where I have described how to use a leather conditioner.

Step 2: Use Leather Conditioner

Note: Before you use it, check the quality of the leather conditioner. You could either use a leather conditioner or marula oil.

First, make sure you have either Leather conditioner or Marula oil.

So follow these steps to complete this tip:

• First, put a little bit of leather conditioner on the color stain.
• Take a clean cotton cloth and rub it on the surface where we have applied the conditioner. (NOTE: you should rub it gently and see what happens).
• Wait for some time, and you might see the color stain has darken, and there’s excess oil on the leather surface.

I have also written solutions about Removing Alcohol Stain and Sanitizer stains from leather bags.

Step 3: Use Leather Cleaner to Remove Excess Residue 

After you have completed 2nd now we are moving to 3rd step. In this step, we will again do the first step to remove excess residue from the leather surface.

So follow these steps to complete this tip:

• If the stain is no longer on the surface, follow the first step.
• Spray leather cleaner on the surface.
• Take a new tissue and rub it on the surface gently.
• After doing 3rd step, you may see color stain is much better controlled or removed.

So after completion of all of these steps, if you don’t see color stain completely whipped out, you must go to a professional leather repairer who can easily recognize the stain and repair it. 

What Not To Do When Removing Color Stain From Leather Surface.

Before you follow these steps make sure you are aware of the following things:

• Don’t use a magic eraser on the color stain as it tends to damage more by sanding off a layer of the leather.
• Do not use the alcohol-based solution as it may damage the leather surface by drying out surface.

How to Prevent Color Transfer to Occur on your Bag’s Leather Surface

Be aware if you have an expensive leather handbag or white color leather handbag.

• Keep a small bottle of leather cleaner in your bag so if anything happens, you can immediately clean it with leather cleaner and clean tissue.
• Another solution is to wear dark-colored outfits with light-colored leather bags or purses, which effectively keeps light and dark color items separate.
• Make sure you wear high-quality clothes to avoid such chemical-colored stains on your leather bag.

If this tip on how to remove color stain from leather bag doesn’t work, then let me know by mailing it to business.getmebag@gmail.com.

If you cannot clean it, you could take your damaged leather bag to a leather repairer or professional.

FAQs: How To Remove Color Stain From Leather Bag

Conclusion

So this was the perfect answer that I could give you on How To Remove Color Stain From Leather Bag. If you are still not able to clean it yourself then take your bag to a leather repairer or professional.

You should take your leather bag to a professional leather cleaner for stain removal as soon as possible if your spot test doesn’t give you a safe result or if you have a large or particularly difficult stain. 

So that’s it for today. Thanks for giving your time.

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