Cleaning Hermes leather with baby wipes

[allaboutnice]

After great success with 'Simple' baby wipes after 2 hard days in rainy London, my swift Birkin came up as good as new.

I thought I'd have a go with my vache Liegee Kelly. She is 18 months old now and is used as work bag and gets bashed about a bit - the corners are showing some signs of wear. I photographed all four corners to show the wear. It looks worse than it is due to the close-up.

Here are the initial photos:

I then used one baby wipe and wiped all over the bag and rubbed fairly hard in the corners.

The next post will show a few hours later after using baby wipes.

 

[bags to die for]

allaboutnice - I had a black mark on the handles of my clemence lindy and showed the SAs at my store. They tut tuted at me but didn't suggest how I could clean it off. I saw the Martha Stewart show on baby wipes, bought some and the mark came off like a treat! Amazing stuff. Can't wait to see what it does on your VL bag.

 

[allaboutnice]

Here are the results after using baby-wipes, a few hours later, when dry:

I am very pleased, again, with the results. The corners are almost completely restored. If anyone was considering Martha Stewart's bag-cleaning tip, then I definitely recommend it, it's worked on swift and VL for me so far.

You need nerves of steel with VL though, immediately after wiping witht he baby-wipes, the corners went very dark - I'll post the pics in the next page.

 

[mooks]

That is so effective, I wonder if it's because baby wipes have a little oil in them that feeds the leather

 

[allaboutnice]

These are the four corners immediately following cleaning - don't panic, it recovers gradually over the next few minutes to produces results shown in above post:

Has anyone else had good success with baby-wipes?

 

[My Serendipity]

Will any kind of baby wipes work?

 

[allaboutnice]

Will any kind of baby wipes work?

I think so, maybe go for non-perfumed, non-colour etc

I think Martha specifies no-alcohol and definitely not the hand-wipes, must be babywipes, here's the other thread with the link to Martha's show, she uses Pampers I think:

http://forum.purseblog.com/hermes/c...eather-whats-involved-274415.html#post5896868

 

[My Serendipity]

I think so, maybe go for non-perfumed, non-colour etc

I think Martha specifies no-alcohol and definitely not the hand-wipes, must be babywipes, here's the other thread with the link to Martha's show, she uses Pampers I think:

http://forum.purseblog.com/hermes/c...eather-whats-involved-274415.html#post5896868

Thanks! Ill check it out!

 

[Diorelli]

This is such a brilliant tip! I just bought my first H bag and was worried because it's light and would prolly be a dirt magnet. Thanks for the peace of mind.

*goes off to hoard baby wipes*

 

[Raz]

Wow!! that is really effective, middle bit looks a bit scary though.
So do Simple do baby wipes?? I shall have to get some, just in case.

 

[eoel]

Thanks for sharing the tip ! Didn't know it can do such little wonders !

 

[Luccibag]

Definitely works for me too! It works nice on box leather as well.

 

[H_addict]

Yup, good ol' baby wipes have done the trick for me in the past! I can't think of anything better to clean my bags with.

 

[chesia]

thanks for sharing this wonderful tip!!!

 

[tokyogirl]

WOW -- Ok, I also have a VL with corner issues. I will have to go find the extra baby wipes....

THANK you so much for sharing this neat tip and the very illustrative and helpful photos!