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Hello everyone, This is my first post here. I realize this board is more for leather working however I figured you probably have the most knowledge about leather itself. I desperately need some help with a vegetable tanned leather sofa. I bought the sofa at auction and when it arrived to my apartment, it was quite dry. The previous owner obviously didn't take very good care of it. After some research I found some products called Leather Doctor by a guy named Roger Koh. I had high hopes at first. These products were very, very expensive mind you. I went through the whole process following the guides every step of the way and in the end I was left with a even more dried-out sofa and nearly $600 worth of snake oil. His products ruined my sofa and he now refuses to help other than "buy more of my products to fix". Needless to say, if you ever come in contact with his products, DO NOT BUY. Anyhow, I moved on and in desperation to try and save this beautiful leather sofa I picked up two jars of Dr Jackson's Hide Rejuvenator. Cost: $18.00 total. Did a few light coats. To be honest, it helped more than I thought it would but the damage done by the other products was pretty severe in the end. So, while I have gotten the leather to a usable state now (which is the goal - it is a sofa after all) I find that there are still quite a bit of bad areas. I have read up on the subject as much as possible and it seems that I've concluded (based on text read) that Hydrolysis (when the leather fibrils shrink and break down) is absolutely not reversible. So, I am assuming that since the other products I used from Leather Doctor contained so much water it actually sped up the process of Hydrolysis and after the sofa dried it was left in a worse state. So, not only did this guy sell my (expensive) snake oil, he ruined a very nice sofa. So, I guess I want to know: can anything at all be done or is it simply too little too late? I am ordering some glycerin soap bars to make a soap flake solution (this is recommended by the sofa manufacturer) but beyond that I am worried that the sofa will not last long. I'm already seeing many small surface cracks on the cushions that were not there before using the leather dr product and I worry it will continue to get worse. I know that I shouldn't sustain continued use of the Hide Rejuvenator so I only used to for a few small applications. Please help! Thank you in advanced. *Edit* I should add that also after using the first products, the leather became quite stiff and has not fully softened even with the hide rejouvenator. I worry this will lead to breakage.