Comments on: These boots are made for licking (Day 274)…

By: Hello MOTO

Hello MOTO — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:01:02 +0000

im actually, waiting for it to dry up now on my emu’ss.
i hope the salt and vinegar worksss, :].

By: Angelo

Angelo — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:28:00 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for your site regarding tips on taking care of your leather boots. I’ll have to try coconut oil on my Rocky leather hunting boots. (Health Friends told me to use it for cooking but if it has 90% saturated fat, then it’s a heart attack aching to manifest itself.) Down here in Tallahassee, FL, my boots were kind of stiff, so I put some refined olive oil and water on them lightly, it seems to help. You environmentalists crack me up. I love your faith in doing a good deed for humanity, e.g. the environment, but it’s too bad you’re not a Biblical Christian for then you would know about Rev. 20:1 “Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away…” God’s going to dump this place, if He created it, why not create a new one instead of trying to cleanup man’s dump. People try to better it, and we should, but environmentalists are killing themselves with depresion over the environment.(Al Gore) And you’re “no leather rule” is funny, since you have leatherstores.org ad on your site. Heh, heh… I suppose you’d rather wear synthetic boots and garments, which are horrible for our health (cancerous). Anyway, I’m a humble person and I’m sorry if I sound a little arrogant. P.S My cousin lives in Toronto and she has a newborn, I’ve been there and it’s a beautiful city.

Fellow Conuc, down in Florida
Angelo

By: mary

mary — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:22:38 +0000

i have used olive oil to wash my face with for years, it is great to take off your make-up, and cocnut oil is a good mositurizer, but does nothing for my wrinkles. the vinager and water does work some what for getting off the
salt on boots,i was looking for something to keep the salt from staying there in the first place.

By: Clare

Clare — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:40:09 +0000

Actually, coconut oil is much better for probably everything than olive oil. I don’t really know much about boots, but I know that coconut oil is one of the healthiest oils one can cook with, and it’s really good for your skin–even though it’s supposed to be comedogenic, some people have actually found that it helps with breakouts, and it’s a wonderful moisturizer.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:18:16 +0000

I’ve not tried this, but have heard that a 50/50 mixture of white vinegar & water applied with a rag works to get salt stains off leather…maybe do just test patch first?

By: Rhett

Rhett — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:14:51 +0000

I’d be careful trying that with olive oil. Refined coconut oil is 90% saturated fat. I can’t find an olive oil that has more than 20% saturated fat. Saturated fats tend to be highly stable while unsaturated fats can go rancid. In addition, if you’re going to use olive oil, it should be a “light” or “refined” olive oil. Virgin olive oils have simply been mechanically processed, and there’s more in there than just the oil, so you’ll end up with pulverized olive on and in your leather, and I’m fairly sure that can putrify, too.

For leather, it’s best to stay with highly stable oils. Traditional shoe polish recipes generally involve wax or tallow…things that are heavy in saturated, stable fats.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:55:24 +0000

Haha — velvety-uggetty-soft? Wow, that’s a new adjective… I dunno, Em, I tried to do that with a brush and everything but they’re still kinda hard and gross looking. I think you just take better care of yours (and probably don’t wear them every single day like I do!).

By: emma

emma — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:37:46 +0000

salt stain remover works you just have to brush the boot after to get it velvety-uggety-soft. xo