American Dent Specialists is a proud certified installer of Ceramic Pro products. One of these is their Ceramic Pro Leather product. Check out the video below to see how it works and read more about it in the information below from Ceramic Pro.

I''m going to talk to you today about Ceramic Pro Leather. This product is for true untreated leather. We have two other products, Strong and Ceramic Pro 9H, that can also go on your treated leathers. I'm going to bring you over here, and I have a piece of true leather that's already 50/50 with a tape, so I can demonstrate to you how the product works. So you're going to take the product, and you're going to put it on your sponge. This is a microfiber sponge, and you're going to coat it. It takes 24 hours to cure, and about 30 minutes to dry. So once it's cured, I'll show you exactly what it does. It's going to be still malleable. It's creating a sacrificial layer so the contaminants aren't going to get on the leather, instead it's going to repel. So we'll come back to that.

So now it's been a full 24 hours. That's given our leather piece enough time to cure. So I'm going to go ahead and demonstrate to you exactly what our product does when it's being protected by Ceramic Pro Leather. I'm going to show you exactly how it's going to protect against those jean transfers, those stains, anything that might get onto your leather seats of your vehicle or your couches at home. A good way to demonstrate that is with a Sharpie marker. So I'm going to go ahead and put a mark on the coated side of this piece of leather.

And I'm going to just take a microfiber here. I'm going to show you exactly how easy it is to wipe off. So you can see it's very easy to get that stain right off that piece of leather versus the non coated side. I'm going to make the same type of Mark. And you can see that this product is not going to be coming off quite as easily. So with Ceramic Pro Leather on your couches, your car seats, any type of leather, your handbags, it's going to definitely protect against those jeans transfers, maybe lipstick stains, minor spills, anything like that, that might contaminate your leather.

What Options Are Available for Protecting Leather Surfaces

Those of us who are old-school car guys swear by leather conditioners and dressings. But what is different about these two products?

A leather conditioner is intended to maintain hydration in a leather car seat and other interior parts. The conditioner soaks into the top layer of the hyde, which helps to reduce the potential of drying, cracking, and other damage caused by UV rays and excessive heat.

A leather dressing is applied to help protect the surface against exposure to UVA and UVB. Consider a leather dressing similar with sunscreen for your skin. However, it’s also used to help improve the shine of the leather surface.

These are the two big dogs in leather protection. There are also specific leather cleaner products, but we covered that in a previous episode of Car Detailing 1010. They were initially created to work with traditional leather upholstery materials.

But then something happened in the automotive industry – cost cutting. The manufacturers were realizing that genuine leather became cost-prohibitive. This led to the creation of leatherette and synthetic leather used to create an upgraded vehicle seat. It also saw a large addition of perforated leather seats.

These materials are painted then coated with a urethane coating – like a clear coat for paint. Even genuine leather today in luxury vehicles receives this similar factory-applied treatment. We’ll dive into this new process and the professional-grade interior nano coatings that provide superior protection for leather surfaces.