FAQs

All Doc Bailey’s 4 oz leather care detail kits cost only $19.95. Each of these kits will clean and condition a leather jacket more than 30 times, or a bike seat or a pair of boots more than 50 times. We always offer a 100
percent “Use the Bottle to the Bottom” money-back guarantee, which means that even if you use the entire bottle, we will refund your money if you aren’t happy with the results.

At Doc Bailey’s you can get two kits at just $34.95 or 3 for $44.95 This is the best deal available for our professional leather cleaner and conditioner! If you don’t think you need two kits, remember that Doc Bailey’s makes a great gift for a buddy.

Doc Bailey’s leather care products are available at your favorite leather retailer or motorcycle shop. If they do not carry our professional leather cleaner, conditioner or re-dye kits, ask them to! Have them call 1-800-361-7467 to get set up as a direct reseller.

All doc bailey leather care products are designed to clean, Condition, restore and protect in one easy step.

-Doc Bailey’s Leather Black: This product cleans, conditions, re-colors, and waterproofs all black leather and vinyl. Doc Bailey’s actually contains a black colorfast dye pigment that won’t bleed and will make your leather
look like new.

-Doc Bailey’s Leather Tonic: For High Gloss shine. This product cleans, deep conditions, restores, and protects all smooth, finished leather. Leather Tonic leaves a nice, non-sticky finish to protect your leather. Our Leather Tonic works extremely well on all exotic leathers.

-Doc Bailey’s Leather Clear: Satin Low Gloss Finish For ALL Colors of soft fine leathers and exotic skins. This product Cleans, Conditions, Restores and Waterproofs.

Doc Bailey’s Leather Black contains a mild detergent to gently clean the leather, lanolin oil to condition, preserve, and prevent your black leather from cracking. It also has a colorfast black dye to restore the color and a special blend of waxes to lock that color in and make your leather look new.

Doc Bailey’s leather care products DO NOT contain silicone, alcohol, or other harsh chemicals. We are proud to use only all-natural ingredients, detergents, lanolin oils and mineral waxes to clean, restore, and protect your leather. We want your leather to look like it is new and to last for as long as possible.

No. We use a colorfast dye that won’t bleed. To ensure that there is no bleed, wait about an hour after you apply Leather Black, then go back and buff the leather with a rag to pick up any excess product that you might have applied. A thorough buffing will also help lock in the color.

Doc Bailey’s Leather Black is excellent on all smooth black leather, vinyl, rubber, canvas, or plastic. It works incredibly well on jackets, boots, motorcycle seats, saddle bags, chaps, leather furniture, auto trim, rubber weather stripping, Convertable Tops and just about anything else you want to be black!

Our other incredible products called Leather Tonic (high shine gloss) or Leather Clear (Satin low shine) they have been designed for ALL other colors of leather. Red, brown, blue, and everything in between, Leather Tonic or Leather Clear will clean, restore, and protect any color of smooth, finished leather. These products are perfect for saddles, tack, boots, exotic skins, furniture, handbags, briefcases, and so much more. This original, completely awesome formulas are what that we built our reputation on. Try a bottle today and see what makes Doc Bailey’s Leather Care the best in the world!

In addition to Leather Black and Leather Tonic, we also make the Black Leather and Vinyl Re-Dye and Repair-a-Tear kit, as well as a Multi-Colored Leather Restoration, Re-Dye, and Repair kit.

And we recently introduced our newest winning formula. Try our 12x Pro-Ceramic Paint and Clear Coat restoration. Make your car, boat or motorcycle have a brilliant deep shine with the almost Bullet proof scratch protection of 12x Pro-Ceramic Polish. It contains nano sized ceramic particles to rebuild and restore your clearcoat surface. Creating a super hydrophobic surface that nothing can stick to. Keeping your car, RV or bikes paint shining and looking new. Even works great on Shower glass and Stainless steel appliances to prevent stains and fingerprints.

We don’t print a catalog, but you can check the shop section of this website for a complete listing of all our products

For fine leathers like the kind on your furniture or your jacket, only a couple of times per year. Some of your more abused items, like boots and chaps, will benefit from a touch-up up every couple of months. Doc Bailey’s professional leather cleaners take only a few seconds to use and your leather goods are back to being as good as new!

Yes, the Tonic works on all colors, but for black riding leathers we recommend the Leather Black. Leather Black has heavier waxes that are specially formulated for darker leather which will provide better protection from the elements. The Tonic is more for your fine, multi-color leathers commonly found on furniture, as well as exotic leathers like snakeskin, ostrich, alligator, and others.

Doc Bailey’s Leather Tonic is the original formula that we built our reputation on. Use the Tonic to clean, condition, and protect all smooth leather. Leather Tonic was designed for high-shine leather. When you wipe Leather Tonic off, the excess wax will leave a low-gloss, satin finish, which is perfect for dress shoes, boots, saddles, tack, all exotic leathers, and indoor furniture. Leather Tonic is for heavy conditioning and restoration. Tonic also repels water.

Doc Bailey’s Leather Clear is for outdoor leathers and leathers that have a soft, non-shining surface. Leather Clear is invisible when dry and has no shine nor a glossy finish and contains dry, non-sticky waxes that will waterproof your leather. This product is perfect for, boots, jackets, furniture, car interiors, and vinyl dash
panels and soft, no-shine leathers. Leather Clear will not change the feel or look of the leather, but still
waterproofs effectively. Leather Clear is ideal for light cleaning, conditioning, and restoration, and
waterproofing.

Doc Bailey’s Leather Clear is for outdoor leathers and leathers that have a soft, non-shining surface. Leather Clear is invisible when dry and has no shine nor a glossy finish and contains dry, non-sticky waxes that will waterproof your leather. This product is perfect for, boots, jackets, furniture, car interiors, and vinyl dash panels and soft, no-shine leathers. Leather Clear will not change the feel or look of the leather, but still waterproofs effectively. Leather Clear is ideal for light cleaning, conditioning, and restoration, and waterproofing.

No. Doc Bailey’s products are not designed for suede or buckskin and should not be used on these materials. They work great on smooth, finished leather, vinyl, rubber, and canvas, but suede and buckskin need a different kind of care. Using Doc Bailey’s on these materials can damage the nap and won’t give you the results you’re looking for.

Silicone sits on top of the leather instead of feeding it. Over time it builds up, traps moisture underneath, and can actually speed up cracking and drying instead of preventing it. Doc Bailey’s uses pure lanolin oil instead, which is the same oil nature uses to keep sheepskin flexible in bad weather. Lanolin penetrates into the hide instead of just coating the surface, so your leather actually gets healthier with every use instead of just looking shinier for a week.

Leather cracks when it dries out. As it loses moisture the fibers shrink and pull tight, and eventually the surface splits. This is also what leads to stitch-rot: shrinking leather puts tension on the thread around every seam until it snaps. The fix is keeping lanolin oil flowing into the leather regularly so it stays supple. Doc Bailey’s Leather Black, Leather Clear, and Leather Tonic all drive lanolin deep into the hide to stop this cycle before it starts.

Leather Black is touch-dry in about 30 seconds, but that’s not the same as cured. This is the One-Hour Rule: let it sit untouched for a full hour before you buff. That hour is the encapsulation window, when the wax layer locks the dye and lanolin into the hide. Buff too early and you can disturb the dye before it’s bonded, which causes bleeding and a duller finish. Rule of thumb: if you can touch it, you can wait.

Yes. Leather Black uses a real black dye, not a temporary tint, so it restores the deep color your jacket had on day one instead of just making it “look okay.” It cleans, conditions with lanolin, re-dyes, and waterproofs in one application, so a sun-bleached jacket gets its color back and gets protected from doing it again.

Leather Clear. It’s built for the environment inside a car: heat, UV through the windshield, and constant contact from denim and skin oils. It goes on invisible with no shine, so your interior doesn’t look “detailed,” it just looks new. The dry wax finish means dust and dirt wipe off instead of sticking, and it won’t leave the greasy residue that shows up on light-colored seats after a few days.

Leather Black for black gear, Leather Clear for any other color. Both drive lanolin oil deep into the hide to stop drying and cracking from sun and wind, then seal it with a 100% waterproof wax layer. One application handles road salt, rain, and UV in a single pass, so your seat and saddlebags survive more than one riding season instead of drying out by the end of summer.

The high-wear spots on a couch or chair, where people actually sit, are the first to dry out and crack because they get the most friction and body oil. Leather Clear conditions those spots with lanolin so the leather stays flexible under repeated pressure, and the wax layer keeps hair oils and makeup sitting on the surface instead of soaking in and breaking the leather down from underneath.

Leather Black for black boots, Leather Tonic for any other color. Both clean, condition, and lay down a waterproof wax seal in one application, so salt and slush from winter sidewalks bead off instead of soaking in. Apply before the weather turns, not after your boots are already stained, since the wax needs the One-Hour Rule to fully encapsulate before it takes a beating.

Leather Tonic. It’s the original formula, built in a saddle shop specifically for this kind of use. It cleans, deep-conditions, and finishes with a high-gloss shine that also repels water, without the sticky residue that traditional saddle soap leaves behind. It works on all colors, which matters for tack that isn’t black.