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lympero

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Hello,

i want to buy a leather case for my wife but she regularly (daily) uses alcohol wipes due to COVID to disinfect her cases so i'm wondering how do you care/clean leather products ?
 
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Hello,

i want to buy a leather case for my wife but she regularly (daily) uses alcohol wipes due to COVID to disinfect her cases so i'm wondering how do you care/clean leather products ?
If she uses alcohol wipes on the leather case, it wont
Last long.

Just a car leather cleaner will be fine
 
Alcohol will destroy a leather case faster than you can count to ten. If that's what she does, do not get her a leather case.

Leather does not need much care, outside of using some leather conditioner from time to time.
 
Yeah, alcohol wipes are not good for leather but I've used regular alcohol wipes on my Midnight leather case for an entire year, and it's in decent shape. The dark hides most of the discoloration. There’s a spot above the Apple logo and on the edges. Just don’t apply a lot of force. I recon if I treated it with a leather cleaner a couple of times it would be in even better shape.
 

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I used Clorox on my Apple leather case. It might be less damaging than alcohol wipes?? Apple recommended using Clorox wipes over alcohol on the phone a couple years ago.
 
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