Your pretty much right
I have tried everything on the market and the best product I’ve found is Redwing Boot Oil. It’s basically a heavy weight oil that protects leather products very well for a long time. Everything else is very temporary.
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Oilskin
Wasn’t this common outdoorsman/sailor cloth made from canvas impregnated with pitch or tar?
taught shop in a
medium security prison with a DD population , one inmate sprayed WD40 on his knees for his" arthuritis" .
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I
rub Preparation H on my boots…keeps the leather tight but supple, flexible, and gets rid of that painful burning…
VERY FUNNY!!!
This whole thread leaves me with
an embarrassing, painful itch.
Blue Ointment!
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Put on that old blue ointment, to the crab's disappointment
And we'll kill them bastards where they lay;
Though it burns and it itches, it will kill them sons of bitches
And then you can go out and play.
Works great on your boots too!
add to that
…I don’t think too many people are cautioning against the (dubious) environmental consequences. I think people are cautioning against the very real and proven health concerns.
it works even better
…if you mix a little hcg in!
How dare you!!
Apply facts to a p-net thread!
BASF leather treatment
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Water-repellent treatment of leather
http://bit.ly/DryBASF
I still like Sno-Seal a lot, sticking with it this season
Motor oil on boots
LOL first of all a tin of shoe polish or shoe wax as they call it won’t last 40 years. Not if you wax them once a week or so. Also I would be more worried about the man made shoe care products with all the crap they put in the then motor oil and the by products of the fuel burned in your motor. How about all the crap in silicon spray for boots. Now not only are you polluting the air with your vehicle but with the spray.
I think people need to worry more about what they do and teach there children to do then what others are doing wrong.
WD40 works good too. WD stands for water displacement.
If it soaks into your socks, it will also soak into your feet, no?
I like neatsfoot oil. It also darkens leather, but I reckon not nearly as much as old crankcase oil!
How many minks does it actually take to make a can of Mink Oil? For that matter how many Marmots give their lives for a 2 person Marmot tent? 
Motor oil is made from petroleum. Leather is an organic product made from the skin of animals. I have worked with a lot of leather tack, saddles, bridles, britchin, breast collars, chaps, buckskin clothes, leather belts, harness, pack straps and 40 pairs of leather boots over the years.
The way to preserve leather is to use animal fat. Neatsfoot oil, mink oil, Lexol, take your pick. Glycerine and saddle soap can be used to clean leather. Then you need to put the animal fat back in. I still have boots that are 45 year old and and have been resoled many times. I worked with a guy once that had a pair of White’s logging boots with the 9th set of resoles.