Connolly Hide Food Review
I hope you didn't get the same stuff as this guy did. He's a quite an authority on auto detailing btw, around here anyway.
""Connolly Bros are supposed to produce the best leather in the world, so it stands to reason that their leather care products are the best right. Wrong big time!!
I am a little reluctant to post a review on a bad product but I'm doing it anyway because this is one that you really need to stay away from at all costs. This stuff is really
Connolly's leather care product goes under the name "Hide Food" . It used to be packaged in nice glass jars but after a few months the contents used to seperate and it soon looked like rotten milk with white lumps floating in a semi clear liquid - not nice . Someone came up with the bright, and cheaper, idea of putting it in white plastic containers. Although the stomach turning contents could no longer be seen they attacked the plastic causing it to distort slightly.
OK that's the good part. IF you have a strong stomach and can keep your lunch down, or just close your eyes, you can stir the curdled mass back into a resonable looking cream which is how it left the factory. You will notice however an overpowering smell of white spirit/paintbrush cleaner. If this is how you want your car to smell this is the product to use but it would be cheaper and better to put a pair of painters overalls under your seat because there is worse to come.
Logically feeding leather with a cream seems like a good idea, after all that's what ladies do with their skin. They wouldn't if the had lines of stitching running up their face and/or it was made of lots of small pieces joined together. Hide food gets stuck everywhere. In the stitching, in the piping, between individual sections and to make matters worse the whole lot dries into a horrible sticky mess. The worst of it is this includes the areas where you actually managed to spread it out thinly. The good news is that it does seem to make a good job of keeping the hide supple.
When you decide you can't live with the smell (which does go off after a few days) or the stickiness (which doesn't) you'll need to spend many hours/days getting the stuff back off.
Believe me, do not even try it even if someone gives it to you. The main reason for this otherwise useless posting though is to inform you not to buy it at the inflated prices (and inflated claims) it is sold at.
Connolly Hide Food must have some use but whatever it is it's nothing to do with leather car interiors.""
