I checked again and on one of the bags, one handle still looks ever so slightly darker than the other. But, it's probably something only I would notice and I'm not sure if it was that way before (variation in leather?) because I probably wouldn't have been inspecting so closely before. But, it does make me wary of the products, only because if it WAS the products, then potentially they could have caused a more noticeable problem that would have upset me.