What types of leather are there?
There are 2 major categories of leather which will define the method of cleaning you will use, they are Finished and Unfinished. I try to compare this to wood so people can better understand: finished leather is like painted wood with a polyurethane or similar coating on it, unfinished leather is like stained wood with no protective topcoat on it. Halfway in between is a semi-finished leather; it is like stained wood with a light protective coating on it which falls under the major category of unfinished. There is only 1 type of finished leather, however there are many different types of unfinished leather such as aniline, semi-aniline, semi-finished, nubuck, pull-up, wax pull-up and suede. The different types of unfinished leather do not change the way you clean it, only how easy or difficult it may be to clean or remove stains.
