Anyone use Geist Leather Care Products?

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Lonnie

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Just wondering if anyone has tried Geist leather care products and how they compares to Colour-Lock, seeing that Geist offers (very) similar products.
This is more a question of curiosity than an outright seeking a recommendation. I currently use Griots Garage Odor Neutralizing Leather Cleaner and their Leather Care lotion preserver.
Both work well for the leather interior I take care of, but if there is something better, I am willing to learn.
Leather care seems to be one of the most re-occuring questions in this forum, along with the question of what is the best wax (and polish, and soap!) for black paint.
 
Setec:
Did not know that about a former ColourLock employee starting his/her own company called Geist.

If that is the case, then apparently ColourLock did not patent it's chemical formulas for leather care, and the former ColourLock chemist who started Geist either used an identical or very similar formulas for his/her Geist products. It is just coincidental that I would ask about comparisons between the the leather care product companies.

Geist's specialty cleaner for ink and and blue jean dye removal from leather is what interests me. That can be especially problematic to remove without damaging dyed leather and leaving a "bleached spot" when trying to clean leather. Hence my question on how well Geist products work on high-end or better leather interiors.
Just as there is a right tool for every job, so too is there a right car-care product for unusual vehicle material stains or cleaning. Yes, it drives my other frugal half bonkers that I have this modest "investment" in such specialty car-care products, BUT in my defense having that product can save time and solve a detailing problem without causing more problems because an "alternative method" was used. You can drive a woodscrew into wood with a hammer, but a screwdriver works better. Just sayin'...
(This last statement coming from someone who, when you put hammer in his hand, you have roughly two objects with the same IQ!)
 
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From the Google AI about who started Geist: Ram Iyer, and yes, he previously worked for Colourlock (managing Colourlock UK and North America) before founding Geist.

And you should know from your time as a designer that the vast majority of products are not covered by patent.
 
Setec:
I wonder WHY Mr. Ram Iyer would start his own company, but the car-care product industry is replete with such individuals and their stories.
One being Finish-Kare and its founder Floyd Meguiar not getting along with his brother Barry of the famed Mirror Glaze Meguiar company. Many a Autopian has benefited from using Finish-Kare products in their day.
 
I read part of an interview where Iyer said he felt leather care needed to be explained better and made simpler by the product manufacturers, perhaps he just wanted to do it his way.

The Geist approach does seem to be fairly simple, IIRC they have two kits, one for cars less than 3 years old ("new") and one for older cars, the premise being that new leather doesn't need to be conditioned, only protected, while leather older than 3 years has started to dry out. If I'm remembering the kits are the same except the one for "aged" leather has a bottle of conditioner added, along with the cleaner and friction reducer, and brushes, etc.

I got a kit on closeout from somewhere, but of course I'm trying to use up my older products...so who knows when I will get around to using the Geist. I'm notoriously lazy about taking care of my leather.
 
Colorbond might be a product to consider for discolored or stained leather. On my car I replaced the seat bottom and seat back at different times and the color didn't match well. I used Colorbond to blend them. It worked well.
 
SO that explains the "Plus 3" kit concept.
Thanks, Setec!
By the way, you are not alone in the laziness category of cleaning your vehicle's leather interior. Most family and friends vehicle's interior that I clean and detail lack an occasional good-as-new deep cleaning because the owners/leasees lack the time, patience and effort, and products to do so, and for good reason: they bring their vehicles to the resident family and friends OCD detailer (me) to do it for them. It's a challenge sometimes, but as mentioned, having the right products and equipment can make the cleaning task easier and produce the results I can accept to my OCD standards and have that good-as-new look the family and friends expect from me.
 
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