A skin or hide preservation process that is an essentially dry process for preserving animal skins or hides that involves the following steps, in order: A. determine a water content of primary skins to be processed； D. process primary skins with a predetermined quantity of a dry preservation mixture to create processed skins； such that the dry preservation mixture includes: - at least one solid acid with a melting point above 20º C； and - a salt mixture containing sodium chloride and/or potassium chloride, with the potassium chloride concentration between 0% and 100%； where the mass of the at least one solid acid added results in a pelt pH of 3.5 or below and the mass of salt mixture added results in a minimum concentration of 50g salt mixture/ litre of water within the primary skins after processing.
