They say a picture is worth a thousand words. You see in this first picture a wedding gown that was stored away with a drink stain on it. Probably when it was stored away, there was no visible stain but as the sugars in the drink begin to caramelize, they darken. This is just like when you take a bite from an apple and let it sit and it gets dark. Many times these sugar stains can be very hard to impossible to remove. But as you can see by the pictures, our trained staff was able to remove the stains on this wedding gown. A member of our staff is a graduate of the Drycleaning and Laundry Institute’s Wedding Gown Cleaning School. Unlike many cleaners who send their gowns out to a wholesaler, all our gowns are cleaned, pressed and boxed on premise.
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Painted leathers (think black biker jacket for example) are notorious in getting mold and mildew growing on them. I would guess that 30-50% of the painted leathers we get in, have mold/mildew on them, from being stored in a damp basement or in a car trunk for example. Usually, in our special leather cleaning process, the mold and mildew is easily removed and does not show any damage to the painted surface as you can see by the before and after photos.
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Another painted leather jacket (not pictured) that a customer brought in, was covered in mold/mildew and the garment had many spots where the paint was worn through. The jacket was stiff and hard (due to mold). After our special leather cleaning process and some touch up painting, the jacket looked and felt like brand new. A member of our staff is a graduate of two leather cleaning schools . Leathers unlike cloth are much more “unpredictable” because the hides are tanned in third world countries and some process them in urine even, they can overstretch them to get more money for them (and after cleaning they will shrink back to their original size), some use glues that won’t withstand cleaning and you have issues like belly wrinkles, scab marks, vien marks, etc. I heard one teacher refer to this as the “natural beauty” of leather, most of us call it a “defect” (which sometimes the tanner hides with fillers that go away during cleaning). And unlike cloth where chemicals can be applied, you do not do spot removal on leather that way, so things like ink marks and such can be impossible to remove.