Hi, I'm Kirby Allison and we love to help the well-dressed take care of their
wardrobes. In today's video, I'm excited to show you how easy it is to condition
your leather briefcase. A quality leather briefcase can have a good long life if
you treat it properly. And just like with leather shoes it's important to
condition your leather briefcase. In today's video, I'm going to show you how
to use two products available from Saphir to condition and rejuvenate your
leather briefcase. The first one is Saphir's leather lotion
which uses a mink oil. This is a great conditioning cream with a little bit of
waxes very similar to the Saphir Renovateur except less thick in
consistency. And second is the Saphir Canadian cream which again is much like
the Saphir Pommadier cream polish Medaille d'Or. It's more like a shoe polish than it
is a permanent reconditioner and does a great job to condition, nourish and
then also recolor and polish a leather briefcase. In today's video i'm going to
be using the neutral, but this is also available with several different colored
pigments. If you have any questions or comments during this video, please ask
them in the comment section below. I enjoy getting back to as many of those
as possible. Here we have a leather briefcase that we're going to condition
today. As you can see it's a very old briefcase and the leather is beginning
to dry out a little bit which is leading to some cracking in the surface. The
Saphir leather lotion is a beeswax based cream polish enriched with an ultra
nourishing mink oil. So I recommend first using this to condition the bag. Then in
order to ensure that that's sealed, I recommend using the neutral Canadian
cream which again is going to further nourish and condition this leather, but
it has beeswax in it that will seal it off and make sure that you don't get any
pigment or wax rubbing off onto your clothing. Before we apply anything to the
briefcase, make sure you wipe it down with a clean cotton chamois, maybe even a
little bit of water depending on how dirty the briefcase is. First because I
really want to deeply nourish and condition this leather, I'm going to
apply a small dollop of the Saphir leather lotion onto our chamois and rub
this into the leather. I'm gonna use small circular movements and firm
pressure to really massage and work the leather lotion into the leather. Massage
the conditioner into the leather over the entire surface of the briefcase, then
wipe off any excess with a clean area of the cotton chamois. Allow the leather
lotion 15 to 20 minutes to dry and be absorbed into the leather, then buff it
off using a large horsehair brush. If it looks like not all of the wax has been
buffed to a shine, you can also use a cotton chamois with a little bit of
water to buff the rest of that wax to a nice shine. Second for additional
nourishment, additional waxes and pigment should it be required, I'm going to apply
the Saphir Canadian cream polish. Now this polish as I said has been designed
specifically for large leather goods and you don't have to worry about any of the
polish or pigments rubbing off onto your clothing.
Apply this the same way you did the leather lotion with a cotton chamois.
Using small circular motions and medium to firm pressure to really massage this
into the leather. Allow it 15 to 20 minutes to be fully absorbed by the
leather and dry. After its dried, buff off using a horsehair brush and a cotton
chamois and a little bit of water if necessary. Here I'm just using a neutral
because I want to keep the original kind of patina of this bag, but the Canadian
cream polish is available in a bunch of different colors and if you'd like to
introduce some color to fix any scuffing or scratching, this is a great time to do
it. For more information on how to remove more difficult scuffing and scratches,
take a look at our video on how to remove scratches from bags. So with a
little bit of treatment with the Saphir leather lotion and the Saphir Canadian
cream, you can see that I've really totally rejuvenated this briefcase. It's
definitely been nourished and hydrated. You can see that the leather is a little
bit darker that's just because we've re-fed that with all the leather
nutrients from these polishes. And even some of the smaller and lighter scuffs
have been have been fixed. And then with the waxes that the the beeswax and the
Canadian cream have given this briefcase a nice soft shine to it. So not a high
gloss shine like would you would have on a pair of shoes, but a totally
appropriate soft shine for a beautiful leather briefcase.
In today's video I'm wearing a cream linen suit from Formosa which is a
Neapolitan tailor. As you can see it has a double pick stitch around the edge and
is an absolutely great jacket or suit for summertime. These trousers have a 1
and 3/4 inch turn ups which again are great for a slightly more casual suit,
which linen is. I have of course my trademark
white shirt. I'm wearing a yellow, silk tie from Drake's of London and because
of the long points, I'm definitely wearing a pair of our horn collar stays.
These are the 2 and 3/4 inch collar stays to keep this that collar
controlled and lying flat. And a beautiful linen pocket square from Simonnot Godard
which has an absolutely lovely blue and dark navy pinstripe around the
border. I also have on my Cleverley Russian Reindeer split toe derbies with
a pair of linen socks. If you enjoyed this video give us a thumbs up and
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