Murphy's Soap Oil furniture cleaner

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I looked on their site,a nd hear all the commercials, but when all is said and done, the absolute best place to find out if something does what it says it does or what you need it to do is to ask the experts yourself.....so..... I ask MyLotters.....Anyone used this stuff? how does it clean? Does it strip colors or wood grain or just exactly what was your experience with it? I am wanting to "clean" some 28 year old formal dinning room table and chairs. The table top is perfect and shiney and on the dark side, so I can't do anything to change it or I'd strip it al down and paint it white! But the table legs and chairs are the same dark browh, wood etching on the back of the chairs of a vine design. But through the years of being used nad being stored, the "shine" of the chair has long been gone, they are dark brown and then stained and rubbed off for a wood grain look or to "antique" the etchings. It is probably a comtempory style (at least back then) rather simple in a formal kind of way. When I tried to wipe off the backs of the chairs with soapy water it just made them darker. I want to clean them up and found a great place to reupholster the seats for about $100 for all four and start using the table set again. I have a 8 yo Grand daughter obsessed with doing hand crafts (okay, I admit, I am the culprit that feed her addiction!) and we need more space to work! So if you have used this cleaning oil OR...if you have used something else that worked really well, PLEASE tell me what you used and how it turned out OR if you know someone that used something and they were happy with the outcome! Thanks so much!